Stepping into Petipa’s shoes: Tamara Rojo on creating a new Raymonda

Tamara Rojo rehearsing Raymonda

Tamara Rojo

Victor Prigent, Isaac Hernández, Aitor Arrieta and ENB dancers in rehearsal for Raymonda

English National Ballet dancers in rehearsal for Raymonda

Fernando Carratalá Coloma in rehearsal for Raymonda

Maria Kochetkova and ENB dancers in rehearsals for Raymonda

Pierina Legnani in Raymonda, Act 1 (1898)

Tamara Rojo and Francesco Gabriele Frola in rehearsals

Erina Takahashi in Raymonda's nurse costume designed by Antony McDonald

By Mark Pullinger, 22 December 2021

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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.

Stepping into Petipa’s shoes: Tamara Rojo on creating a Raymonda for the 21st century