MacMillan's Manon* in Budapest

Von Graham Watts, 11 April 2017

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“the performances gave this Manon a depth of achievement ... I would expect from The Royal Ballet”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Hungarian State Opera: Auditorium, Budapest, am 9 April 2017

Manon (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

Hungarian National Ballet

Nicholas Georgiadis, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Marianna Venekei, Tanz

Aliya Tanykpayeva, Tanz

Dmitry Timofeev, Tanz

Jessica Carulla, Tanz

Ievgen Lagunov, 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.

Hungarian National Ballet superb in Manon