ABT’s Giselle shows that to forgive is divine

Por Sydney Boyd, 12 febrero 2020

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“As Giselle, Hee Seo poignantly captured her unbridled naïveté”

Crítica hecha desde Kennedy Center: Opera House, Washington el 11 febrero 2020

Giselle (Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa)

American Ballet Theatre

Ormsby Wilkins, Dirección

Gianni Quaranta, Diseño de escena

Anna Anni, Diseño de vestuario

Jennifer Tipton, Diseño de iluminación

Hee Seo, Bailarín

Cory Stearns, Bailarín

Devon Teuscher, Bailarín

Roman Zhurbin, Bailarín

American Ballet Theatre Orchestra

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Sydney Boyd

Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.