Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Sleeping Beauty
A smasher of a three-act ballet, positively brimming with dance content while not forgetting the story telling. Amazing performances all round by the Royal Ballet.
Royal Ballet
Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Cinderella
A lavish production of a very average ballet left me feeling uninspired after this live stream.
Theatre Review: The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration
A review of the Diamond Celebration: a principal-packed gala for the Friends of Covent Garden who support the Royal Ballet.
Theatre Review: Nureyev Legend & Legacy Gala
The Nureyev Legend & Legacy galas arranged by artistic director Nehemiah Kish in association with the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation were held at the newly-renovated Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with a star-studded cast.
Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Coppelia
JOYOUS is my verdict on Coppelia by the Royal Ballet from the Royal Opera House live stream on 10th December 2019.
Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Triple Bill
Review of the Royal Ballet’s triple bill of In the Golden Hour, Medusa and Flight Pattern. This was a interesting triple bill by the Royal Ballet. It balanced an easy to watch, engaging and joyous piece with two more abstract and emotional pieces to create a dance experience that the… Read More »Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Triple Bill
Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
Review of Don Quixote by the Royal Ballet, streamed from the Royal Opera House, 19th Feb 2019
Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: La Bayadere
Following the first production of La Bayadere the Petersburg Gazette wrote of choreographer Marius Petipa, “Watching the new ballet, one is just astonished at the inexhaustible imagination our ballet master possesses. All the dances are marked with freshness and colour, novelty in the groupings, richness of invention, intelligence of story… Read More »Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: La Bayadere
Live Stream Review: The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
This is certainly not a ballet to watch if you need cheering up! But if you want to see a tormented protagonist, an anguished set of mistresses and wives and a tragic story portrayed with the highest technical ballet skill and powerful acting – step right up!