★★★★✰ It isn’t often that a gala program proves satisfying, but this one was the exception.
Tag - Lost Illusions
The Royal Ballet are pushing their cinema relay performances as a way of getting 'out there'- so what's it like to see Osipova and Acosta out in the sticks? Margaret Willis gives her view and talks to others on the experience...
...Hallberg’s entrance drew gasps and shouts of ‘bravo’ from the audience. His magnificently stretched jetés soared through the air...
La Scala Ballet is often dismissed as a company without depth, a haven for international guest artists living on a steady regime of full-length ballets. And yet Makhar Vaziev, who left the Mariinsky to take the helm in Milan in 2008, has been taking on more ambitious projects, one baby step at a time...