Tag Archives: Swan Lake

Traditional to the corps: ENB’s Swan Lake returns

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake **** English National Ballet, Coliseum, 3rd January 2019 Ballets blancs: ghostly wilis in Giselle; the Shades in Bayadère; snowflakes in Nutcracker; or here… swans. They are the great white scenes for ballerina and female corps – bourrée-ing … Continue reading →

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Swans, severed heads and a deerstalker: 2018 in review

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

“Wow! That’s some year you’ve had!” was a message written in one of this year’s Christmas cards. “Aiming to top it in 2019?” I’m not sure I have the energy! My outstanding operatic experience of the year was easily Salome at … Continue reading →

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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake triumphantly takes flight once again

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake ***** Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Sadler’s Wells, 12th December 2018 For all their surface serenity, swans are dangerous beasts. Being confronted by their fierce wingbeats can be an intimidating experience. So why not apply these characteristics to Swan … Continue reading →

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Superb Yulia Stepanova takes flight to save St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s drab Swan Lake

Posted on August 26, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake *** St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, Coliseum, 25th August 2018 The sets are dowdy and the creased moon looks like a crinkle-cut crisp, but beggars can’t be choosers. Without a Mariinsky or Bolshoi Ballet tour this summer, London … Continue reading →

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Kapitonova enchants in Ratmansky’s Zurich Swan Lake

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake **** Zurich Ballet, 3rd June 2018 Zurich’s charming opera house lies within a stone’s throw of the lake. During intervals on balmy summer evenings such as this, audience members wander lakeside, where swans glide serenely. It’s the … Continue reading →

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