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Category Archives: Ballet
Bolshoi reflections: creaky drama and a rising star in London
Don Quixote, Swan Lake, The Taming of the Shrew, Le Corsaire We’re over a month into the BBC Proms season, yet I’ve only attended one concert thus far. What gives? Apart from a week away at Verbier Festival and Dorset … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Fadeyechev, Alexei Ratmansky, Artemy Belyakov, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Denis Rodkin, Don Quixote, Le Corsaire, Minkus, Olga Smirnova, Shostakovich, Svetlana Zakharova, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, The Taming of the Shrew, Yulia Stepanova, Yuri Grigorovich
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Kiss me, Katya: Bolshoi’s Shrew a slinky, sexy delight
Shostakovich: The Taming of the Shrew ***** Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House, 3rd August 2016 “If I be waspish, best beware my sting.” Thus the feisty Katharine warns off Petruchio in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, but he’s irresistibly … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Tikhomirova, Artemy Belyakov, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Ekaterina Krysanova, Igor Dronov, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin, Shostakovich, The Taming of the Shrew, Vladislav Lantratov
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Lady of the Lake: Australian Ballet’s Swan Lake glides back to London
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake *** The Australian Ballet, Coliseum, 14th July 2016 “There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.” Princess Diana’s wry words resonate in Graeme Murphy’s reworking of Swan Lake for The Australian Ballet, premiered in 2002 seven … Continue reading
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Tagged Ako Kondo, Graeme Murphy, Kevin Jackson, Leanne Stojmenov, Nicolette Fraillon, Orchestra of English National Opera, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, The Australian Ballet
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Augurs of Spring: strong Mariinsky double bill in Cardiff
Mariinsky Ballet: Concerto DSCH/Sacre **** Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 17th April 2016 It’s difficult to know what shocked Parisian audiences more when The Rite of Spring caused a near riot at its 1913 première: was it Stravinsky’s music – pounding dissonances … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Ratmansky, Concerto DSCH, Ekaterina Kondaurova, Mariinsky Ballet, Mariinsky Orchestra, Sasha Waltz, The Rite of Spring, Valery Gergiev
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