| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 10-Dec-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | The Nutcracker with The Royal Ballet |
 Christmas must be nearing when that traditional fare of sparkle, excitement and the surging score of The Nutcracker bursts in full flood onto the world’s ballet stages. Originally created in 1891 by Marius Petipa for the Mariinsky Theatre, the ballet has become the annual bread-winner for most companies (albeit in various versions), guaranteeing full houses and happy customers. No other ballet brings such heart-warming satisfaction to both seasoned balletomane and newcomer.Read full review... | |
| 8-Oct-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | The new Royal Ballet season opens with some old magic |
 Swan Lake is so iconic that describing it in a review seems superfluous. The idea of it, moreover, so dominates people’s perceptions of ballet, mine included, that before Monday night’s performance I was worried that I would be lost for fresh words, silenced by the weight Tchaikovsky and Petipa’s swans have acquired in the 117 years since they first fluttered across the stage in St Petersburg. (Although the first treatment, and the music, date from 1877, it is really with the Petipa/Ivanov revival in 1895 that Swan Lake’s success story begins.)
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| 25-Jun-2012 Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House | American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is a Delight |
 Imagine being trapped, for the rest of your life, in a swan’s body. Webbed feet, feathery wings, lakeside nest, the whole bit. Would you resign yourself to this “fowl” existence or refuse to accept your fate – no matter the consequences?
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| 27-Jul-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Mariinsky Ballet in London perform Swan Lake |
 Sadly for many, the world of ballet will always be negatively associated with the psychotic actions and mental state of the ballerina in the Oscar winning film Black Swan. However this summer, it is the white swans—all 32 of them—who are showing London audiences the impressive beauty of their classical ballet training.
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