Le Mariage de Figaro, now a Ballet

By Rebecca Galloway, 02 May 2017

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“the soloists shone in their respective parts, with clean technique and strong acting throughout”

Reviewed at Place des Arts: Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Montreal on 26 April 2017

Le Mariage de Figaro (Victor Yaremenko)

National Ballet of Ukraine

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***11

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Rebecca Galloway

Rebecca Galloway is a New Zealand-born writer and PR consultant for arts, design and culture. She studied dance for 13 years and has a degree in Art History from Victoria University of Wellington. She has held a variety of roles for organizations including the NZ School of Dance, City Gallery Wellington and Radio NZ, and was a strategic advisor to the national arts council Creative NZ. Rebecca left New Zealand for the United States, where she worked for renowned dance festival Jacob's Pillow in Massachussetts. Eventually finding herself in Montreal she fell in love and put down roots; currently splitting her time between communications for award-winning information design studio FFunction, dance criticism for a variety of publications and improving her rather patchy French. She tweets at @rtgalloway

The National Ballet of Ukraine brings Le Mariage de Figaro to Montreal