Fokine double bill performed at the Birgitta Festival

Por Simon Rees, 16 septiembre 2015

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Crítica hecha desde St Birgitta Convent, Tallinn el 8 agosto 2015

Scheherazade, Op.35 (Mikhail Fokine)

Polovtsian Dances (Mikhail Fokine)

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Xander Parish, Bailarín

Yulia Makhalina, Bailarín

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Simon Rees

Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.