by Linda on January 11, 2011
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Balanchine said it best “Like Hamlet, Giselle is a classic: it is not only important historically, it also happens to be good (…) People go to see Giselle and to see ballerinas dance it for the same reason we got to see new interpretations of Hamlet: the work [...]
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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 [...]
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by Emilia on March 12, 2010
Over the past few weeks the big ballet companies have been all over social media flaunting their new seasons, in some cases with fabulous, state of the art, trailers (like San Francisco Ballet and Dutch National Ballet). Hot on their heels and conspicuously earlier comes The Royal Opera House: their next ballet and opera season is [...]
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by Linda on January 26, 2010
A staple in the repertoire of all major ballet companies, Giselle has always been an audience favourite. Romantic ballet fans will have a sentimental connection with this quintessential story dealing with man’s encounter with supernatural characters. They cherish not only its iconic solos, the challenges they pose to the the central ballerina and her partner [...]
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