A tribute to Nina Ananiashvili - with personal memories - on her 50th birthday.
Tag - Royal Opera House
Don’t expect big emotional highs and lows or deeply defined characters, just a clear narration of a story that everyone knows. So if we judge it on these terms how does it do?
...though I don’t believe it’s a great work of art, there’s no denying that it’s fun.
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
Of this year's 4 premieres, 2 very much connected with me and 2 didn't.
About the book, complete with 6 Dave Morgan pictures from it...
18 pictures by Dave Morgan...
This triple bill, with two world premieres, shows how ably choreographers 85 years apart can refresh the language of classical ballet without distorting it beyond recognition.
27 pictures by Dave Morgan...
Pictures of Tamara Rojo’s final curtain calls at The Royal Opera House last night - 21 February 2013. She danced in Marguerite and Armand alongside Sergei Polunin.
The release of his book Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet brings together Andrej’s images for the first time, revealing an intimate photographic record of The Royal Ballet.
But it was Rojo who really surprised me, with the most emotionally open performance I've ever seen from her. ...a swansong, indeed: what a way to go!
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
The highly-anticipated and much-talked-about production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has finally made its way to Washington D.C. for a ten-performance run in January...
Mara Galeazzi is retiring at the end of the season and Jonathan Watkins is leaving to go freelance...
Cojocaru is as great a dance-actress in the final scene as any I’ve been privileged to see – and that includes Lynn Seymour, Natalia Makarova and Ekaterina Maximova.
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
It's the Royal Ballet's varied and unique repertoire that has kept me loyal to the company through some very thin times as well as the golden seasons, and this programme is a nice example of what a flick through its back - catalogue can produce.
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
There were revelations on-screen, too. ...How many first-time spectators spot that the Biedermeyer-period Christmas cake in the Act 1 party provides the marzipan-and-icing set for Act II?