“Choreographically, it is heaven!” Marianela Núñez on dancing Tatiana

Marianela Núñez

Vadim Muntagirov and Marianela Núñez in rehearsal

Marianela Núñez as Tatiana in Onegin

Marianela Núñez and Ryoichi Hirano in Onegin

Marianela Núñez in The Sleeping Beauty

Marianela Núñez in La Bayadère

Marianela Núñez

By Mark Pullinger, 05 February 2020

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“I think the more I give, the more I get. It’s like a mutual exchange.”

Fátima Nollén, 17th October

As Ballet Teatro Colón celebrates 100 years, Julio Bocca, its new artistic director reveals how he wants to tour the company internationally, broaden the repertoire and encourage new audiences.

Miyako Yoshida brings National Ballet of Japan to London

Deborah Weiss, 7th July

Miyako Yoshida talks about her deep connection to Giselle, bringing her own production to London with the National Ballet of Japan, and the challenges of being an artistic director.

Ralph Fiennes to direct new staging of Eugene Onegin in Paris

Bachtrack, 2nd April

A longtime connoisseur of Pushkin’s novel, Fiennes’ production will hit the boards at Palais Garnier in February 2026.

Oral history project Voices of British Ballet launches new podcast

Bachtrack, 7th March

Encompassing over 500 interviews with people involved in the dance world, Voices of British Ballet aims to preserve important oral testimony from people instrumental to the development of ballet in the UK.

Living The Dream: paying homage to Sir Frederick Ashton’s masterpiece

Alexander Simpkins, 5th June

The original cast of principals – and current interpreters – discuss the joys of working with the late choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, and the great legacy he has left to today’s dancers.

Alessandra Ferri on taking over at the Vienna State Ballet

Deborah Weiss, 21st March

The great ballerina Alessandra Ferri talks with candour about her long career and how excited she is to become Artistic Director of the Vienna State Ballet.

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.