A ballet for all seasons: The Winter’s Tale returns

Von Mark Pullinger, 14 Februar 2018

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“Hirano... handles Lauren Cuthbertson’s noble Hermione like porcelain in their tender Act 3 pas”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, am 13 Februar 2018

The Winter's Tale (Christopher Wheeldon)

The Royal Ballet

Alondra de la Parra, Musikalische Leitung

Bob Crowley, Bühnenbild

Covent Garden Orchester des Royal Opera House

Lauren Cuthbertson, Tanz

Ryoichi Hirano, Tanz

Sarah Lamb, Tanz

Vadim Muntagirov, Tanz

Laura Morera, Tanz

Matthew Ball, Tanz

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Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

*****

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Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

****1

Les « Racines » inégales du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris à Bastille

Laurine Mortha, 6th October

Entre une pièce des années 1950 de Balanchine et les deux créations récentes des chorégraphes Mthuthuzeli November et Christopher Wheeldon, le programme mixte néo-classique produit un effet mitigé.

***11

The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Amanda Jennings, 1st October

The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

****1

Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Kathy Elgin, 4th July

Ballet Nights is more than an evening of party pieces: it showcases emerging talent alongside older favourites and, in the case of this first Scottish outing, has an eye to local tradition.

****1

ABT in Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale: CliffsNotes Shakespeare

Ivy Lin, 2nd July

Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale is a sumptuous looking production but on this occasion, it didn’t come to life emotionally.

***11

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

A ballet for all seasons: Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale returns to Covent Garden