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Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker

November 20, 2023 by David Mead

Momoko Hirata and Mathias Digman lit up the stage in the grand pas de deux. ‘Polished’ does not do them justice. Hirata sparkled like a cut diamond

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Lev Ivanov Nutcracker Peter Wright Vincent Redmon

Classicism to the fore: John Cranko School

July 22, 2023 by David Mead

Absolutely and unashamedly classically-focused. Even the student choreography. The contemporary pieces were clearly classically underwritten too

Categories Europe Reviews Tags Alessandro Giaquinto Alice McArthur Emanuele Babici John Cranko School (John Cranko Schule) Lev Ivanov Marius Petipa Nutcracker School & conservatoire performances Swan Lake Vasily Vainonen

Russian State Ballet of Siberia: Swan Lake

February 28, 2022February 24, 2022 by Charlotte Kasner

Highlight was Elena Svinko’s quite outstanding Odette/Odile. Framed by the severe faces of her swans, she was a shining jewel and quite sublime

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Alexander Gorsky Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre Lev Ivanov Marius Petipa Russian State Ballet of Siberia Sergey Bobrov Swan Lake

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s festive Nutcracker

November 22, 2021 by David Mead

It’s Christmas, it’s Birmingham, and The Nutcracker is back live. Except that it’s not quite the one we have all been used to the past 30 years.

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Lev Ivanov Nutcracker Peter Wright Vincent Redmon

From Berlin With Love 2021: Staatsballett Berlin New Year Gala

January 6, 2021 by David Mead

Three shorts by Arshak Ghalumyan and Ross Martinson; Swan Lake and Nutcracker pas de deux

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Europe Reviews Tags Arshak Ghalumyan Lev Ivanov Marius Petipa Nutcracker Patrice Bart Ross Martinson Staatsballett Berlin Swan Lake Vasily Medvedev Yuri Burlaka

Seasonal spirit: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker at the REP

December 21, 2020December 20, 2020 by David Mead

Eighty minutes of escape from the awful times we find ourselves in

Categories Birmingham & Midlands DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Reviews Tags Birmingham REP Birmingham Royal Ballet Carlos Acosta David Bintley Lev Ivanov Nutcracker Peter Wright

A big screen Christmas treat: Bolshoi Ballet’s Nutcracker

June 20, 2021December 8, 2020 by Charlotte Kasner

The next best thing to being there

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Europe Reviews Tags Bolshoi Ballet Lev Ivanov Nutcracker

Samara Downs glitters in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake

February 28, 2020 by David Mead

Powerful, inexplicable meanderings of the heart

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Lev Ivanov Marius Petipa Peter Wright Swan Lake

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