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Giselle: Fab or Fail?

by Emilia on September 13, 2010

Fans of Romantic masterpiece and audience favourite Giselle usually have a choice production against which they measure all others. Over here one of our favorites is Sir Peter Wright’s critically acclaimed staging, which returns to Covent Garden early 2011. We were reminded of its virtues and the respect Sir Peter shows for his source material [...]

Tagged as: Albrecht, Approval Matrix, Bolshoi, Coralli, Giselle, Grigorovich, Irina Perren, Mad Scene, Mikhailovsky, Myrtha, Natalia Osipova, NYMag, Perrot, Royal Ballet, Sir Peter Wright, Théophile Gautier, Wired

Laurencia

by Linda on July 30, 2010

Is this ballet for you? Go If: You love bold and spicy ballets à la Don Quixote. You’re all for feisty leading ladies and bravura dancing. Skip If: You can’t stand an endless parade of divertissements and folk dancing. You think serious historical plays should not be turned into light entertainment. Dream Cast Laurencia: Natalia [...]

Tagged as: Dramatic & Intense, Frondoso, Fuente Ovejuna, Kaleria Fedicheva, Kirov Ballet, Laurencia, Light & Fluffy, Lope de Vega, Maria Alexandrova, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Messerer, Mikhailovsky, Mikhailovsky Ballet, Natalia Dudinskaya, Nijinsky, Ninel Kurgapkina, Rudolf Nureyev, Soviet Ballet, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Vera Tsignadze, Yuri Soloviev