Extraordinarily compelling, this is a joy to behold
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at Sheffield Lyceum (May 21st 2019) It’s twenty-four years since Matthew Bourne’s multi-award-winning new vision of Swan Lake fi ...
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The swans rising out of the mist is wonderful spectacle
Robert Tanitch reviews ENB’s Swan Lake at London Coliseum Swan Lake is the most popular ballet in the history of ballet, its popularity sustained by Tchaikovsky’s rich, melodic and melancholic score a ...
Matthew Bourne’s all-male Swan Lake is back
Robert Tanitch reviews Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 There have been many versions of Swan Lake but Matthew Bourne’s version in 1995 in which all the swans are male is one of t ...
Irina Kolesnikova in the iconic dual role of white and black swan
Robert Tanitch reviews Swan Lake at London Coliseum No other ballet is staged so often. No other ballet has had so many interpretations. Every great ballerina wants to dance the iconic dual role of th ...