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Category Archives: Ballet
Wheel of Fortune: Carmina burana a safe bet for Birmingham Royal Ballet
Tchaikovsky: Serenade/ Orff: Carmina burana *** Birmingham Royal Ballet, Coliseum, 20th March 2015 Celebrating 20 years as Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley brings his company to London for three nights (and an afternoon!) of seedy sex and drunken debauchery … Continue reading
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Tagged Birmingham Royal Ballet, Carmina burana, Céline Gittens, David Bintley, Elisha Willis, Ex Cathedra, George Balanchine, Iain Mackay, Jamie Bond, Jenna Roberts, Jeremy Budd, Madeleine Pierard, Mathias Dingman, Momoko Hirata, Orff, Paul Murphy, Philip Ellis, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Samara Downs, Serenade, Tchaikovsky, William Dazeley
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“Happiness was once so near us”: Onegin – the ballet
Outside the Verdi canon, my favourite opera is undoubtedly Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. I reviewed many productions of it for Opera Britannia: in the opera house, from the cinema and on DVD. Tchaikovsky ‘lyric scenes’ capture the essence of Pushkin’s verse … Continue reading
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Tagged Cherevichki, Francesca da Rimini, John Cranko, Marianela Núñez, Onegin, Royal Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Tchaikovsky, Thiago Soares
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Ratmansky’s Mariinsky Cinderella: Once upon an urban fairy tale
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet **** Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House, 15th August 2014 It was clever programming to bookend the Mariinsky’s three-week London Summer Season with two Prokofiev full-length ballets – starting with its classic, but dated, Romeo and Juliet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Anastasia Petushkova, Diana Vishneva, Konstantin Zverev, Mariinsky Ballet, Prokofiev
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