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A touch of Disney: Wheeldon’s glossy Cinderella sweeps into London

By Mark Pullinger, 09 July 2015
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Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 8 July 2015
Programme
Cinderella (Christopher Wheeldon)
Performers
Dutch National Ballet
Matthew Rowe, Conductor
Anna Tsygankova, Dancer
Julian Crouch, Set Designer
Matthew Golding, Dancer
Larissa Lezhnina, Dancer
Wen Ting Guan, Dancer
Nadia Yanowsky, Dancer
Remi Wörtmeyer, Dancer
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
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Mark Pullinger
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.