Great night at English National Opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Akhnaten at London Coliseum Philip Grass’s extraordinary, monumental yet minimalist masterpiece is given an outstanding mythical, sensory and ballsy production by EN ...
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Irina Kolesnikova and St Petersburgh Ballet Theatre are in town
Robert Tanitch reviews Swan Lake at London Coliseum The greatest romantic classical ballet of all time has been a success ever since Petipa and Lev Ivanov reworked it in 1895, a year after Tchaikovsky ...
Jean Christophe Maillot presumes everybody knows the story
Robert Tanitch reviews Romeo et Juliette at London Coliseum. Friar Laurence is much to blame for the tragedy that befalls Romeo and Juliet. So it is interesting, in Jean Christophe Maillot’s 1996 live ...
What do W S Gilbert, Rasputin, Odette and Siegfried have in common?
Robert Tanitch reviews Swan Lake at London Coliseum Faced with a choice between the pure and innocent Odette and the evil and erotic Odile, which woman would you choose to jump into bed (or a lake) wi ...