L’Histoire de Manon: MacMillan's great ballet comes to Prague

Danilo Lo Monaco as Des Grieux and Romina Contreras as Manon in MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon

Federico Ievoli as Des Grieux in Kenneth MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon

Alina Nanu as Lescaut's mistress with Czech National Ballet in L'Histoire de Manon

Paul Irmatov as Lescaut and Aya Okumura as Lescaut's mistress in MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon

Romina Contreras as Manon and Giovanni Rotolo as the Gaelor in MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon

Romina Contreras as Manon and Danilo Lo Monaco as Des Grieux in MacMillan's L'Histoire de Manon

Von Graham Watts, 24 Februar 2025

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“Contreras expressed the vagaries in Manon’s capricious character with a soulful, dramatic command”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: State Opera (Státní opera), Prague, am 20 Februar 2025

Manon (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

The Czech National Ballet

Martin Yates, Musikalische Leitung

Cinzia Lo Fazio, Bühnenbild

Natalia Stewart, Kostüme

Jacopo Pantani, Licht

Prague State Opera Orchestra

Romina Contreras, Tanz

Danilo Lo Monaco, Tanz

Paul Irmatov, Tanz

Aya Okumura, Tanz

Matěj Šust, Tanz

Francesco Scarpato, Tanz

Federico Ievoli, Tanz

Alina Nanu, Tanz

John Powers, Tanz

Tudor Moldoveanu, Tanz

Marek Svobodník, Tanz

Nina Fernandes, Tanz

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.