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Tag Archives: Elena Zaitseva
Tilting at windmills: Bolshoi’s Don Quixote cranks into top gear
Don Quixote Bolshoi Ballet, Royal Opera House, 15th August 2019 Don Who? It’s best to forget Cervantes when it comes to the ballet version of Don Quixote, especially in Alexei Fadeyechev’s three-year old Bolshoi production, last seen here at Covent … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Loparevich, Alexei Matrakhov, Anna Balukova, Anna Tikhomirova, Antonina Chapkina, Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Don Quixote, Elena Zaitseva, Igor Tsvirko, Kristina Karasyova, Margarita Shrainer, Minkus, Pavel Sorokin, Ruslan Skvortsov, Valery Leventhal, Vera Borisenkova, Yuri Ostrovsky
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Listen with Mother: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan La Monnaie, Brussels, 16th June 2019 Look at it from the point of view of the child. The father he’s never met sentences him and his mother to be nailed into a barrel and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Altinoglu, Alexander Vassiliev, Ante Jerkunica, Bernarda Bobro, Bogdan Volkov, Carole Wilson, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Elena Zaitseva, Gleb Filshtinsky, La Monnaie, La Monnaie Chorus, Nicky Spence, Olga Kulchynska, Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stine Marie Fischer, Svetlana Aksenova, The Tale of Tsar Saltan
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Carmen as therapy: Tcherniakov challenges clichés but is stumped in Aix
Bizet: Carmen ** Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 4th July 2017 Love may well be a rebellious bird, but that’s as nothing to maverick director Dmitri Tcherniakov. In his beloved Russian repertoire he displays genius – his recent Snow Maiden in Paris fully … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizet, Carmen, Christian Helmer, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Elena Zaitseva, Elsa Dreisig, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Gabrielle Philiponet, Guillaume Andrieux, Mathias Vidal, Michael Fabiano, Michael Todd Simpson, Orchestre de Paris, Pablo Heras-Casado, Pierre Doyen, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Virginie Verrez
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