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Category Archives: Ballet
An ecstatic, fevered Tatiana from Natalia Osipova as Cranko’s Onegin returns
Onegin Royal Ballet, 18th January 2020 Call it an occupational hazard, but there’s a danger when reviewing a work you love deeply of setting the bar impossibly high. Can the soprano singing the leading lady possibly match your favourite interpretation? … Continue reading
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Tagged Francesca Hayward, Gary Avis, John Cranko, Jürgen Rose, Matthew Ball, Natalia Osipova, Onegin, Reece Clarke, Royal Ballet, Tchaikovsky, Valery Ovsyanikov
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Erina Takahashi sparkles as English National Ballet’s Nutcracker returns
The Nutcracker English National Ballet, Coliseum, 11th December 2019 ‘Tis the season to be jolly, yet for balletomanes and thousands of wide-eyed children Nutcrackers are thin on the ground in London. The Royal Ballet has gone down another ETA Hoffmann … Continue reading
Icy chic: Svetlana Zakharova as Coco Chanel in an airbrushed ballet tribute
Come un respiro/ Gabrielle Chanel Coliseum, 4th December 2019 “Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.” Coco Chanel was the epitome of style and there was no doubting it in Yuri Possokhov’s ballet which depicts the iconic couturière, created this year for … Continue reading
Sylphs and tales from the harem: Kazakh State Ballet makes its UK debut
Scheherazade/ Chopiniana Abay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Coliseum, 17th November 2019 Citing Attila the Hun with pride, Erlan Idrissov, Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the UK, declared to the Coliseum audience that his country was launching a “cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged Abay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Arisa Hashimoto, Azamat Askarov, Chopin, Chopiniana, Dinara Yessentaeva, Malika Elchibayeva, Nelson Joaquin Peña Núñez, Nurzhan Baibusinov, Rahim Dairov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, Ulan Badenov, Vyacheslav Okunev, Zhanel Tukeeva
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MacMillan’s Manon remains as irresistible as ever
Manon Royal Ballet, 2nd October 2019 Sir Kenneth MacMillan was the master at full length narrative ballets packed with emotional power, from the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to the intense psychodrama of Mayerling. His storytelling is seen at its … Continue reading