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Icy chic: Svetlana Zakharova as Coco Chanel in an airbrushed ballet tribute

By Mark Pullinger, 05 December 2019
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“Zakharova is everything one expects in the role; sleek, lithe, high extensions stretched to the max”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 4 December 2019
Programme
Come un respiro (Like a Breath) (Mauro Bigonzetti)
Gabrielle Chanel (Yuri Possokhov)
Performers
Maria Tregubova, Set Designer
Svetlana Zakharova, Dancer
Mikhail Lobukhin, Dancer
Vyacheslav Lopatin, Dancer
Denis Savin, Dancer
Jacopo Tissi, Dancer
Ana Turazashvili, Dancer
Carlo Cerri, Lighting Designer
Chanel, Costume Designer
Ilya Starilov, Video
Ivan Vinogradov, Lighting Designer
Helena Medeiros, Costume Designer
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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.