Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake takes flight once again

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

Matthew Ball in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

Por Mark Pullinger, 13 diciembre 2018

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“Bourne’s supremacy as a storyteller is unparalleled”

Crítica hecha desde Sadler's Wells Theatre, Londres el 12 diciembre 2018

El lago de los cisnes (Sir Matthew Bourne)

New Adventures

Brett Morris, Dirección

Lez Brotherston, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Paule Constable, Diseño de iluminación

Matthew Ball, Bailarín

Will Bozier, Bailarín

Max Westwell, Bailarín

James Lovell, Bailarín

Liam Mower, Bailarín

Dominic North, Bailarín

Nicole Kabera, Bailarín

Katrina Lyndon, Bailarín

The Swan Lake Orchestra

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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.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake triumphantly takes flight once again