Peter Darell's Tales of Hoffman in Japan

Von Naomi Mori, 05 November 2015

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“Maylen Tleubaev ... ruled the stage with his overwhelming, dramatic presence”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Tokyo, am 30 Oktober 2015

Tales of Hoffmann (Peter Darrell)

National Ballet of Japan

Noriko Ohara, Regie

Yudai Fukuoka, Tanz

Miwa Motojima, Tanz

Kayo Nagata, Tanz

Ayako Ono, Tanz

Yui Yonezawa, Tanz

Maylen Tleubaev, Tanz

Yuji Sawada, Licht

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Naomi Mori

Naomi is a blogger living in Tokyo and travels frequently to see ballet. She is a law graduate of Waseda University and a former film publicist, film critic and IT business researcher/strategist. She blogs at La Dolce Vita in Japanese. She tweets about ballet as @naomip_86. and takes ballet class regularly

Peter Darell's Tales of Hoffman, National Ballet of Japan