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Let it snow! Christmas arrives in Covent Garden with The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker

By Mark Pullinger, 09 December 2015
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“Francesca Hayward’s Clara was utterly charming, full of wide-eyed wonderment”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 8 December 2015
Programme
The Nutcracker (Sir Peter Wright, Lev Ivanov)
Performers
The Royal Ballet
Boris Gruzin, Conductor
Julia Trevelyan Oman, Set Designer
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Francesca Hayward, Dancer
Alexander Campbell, Dancer
Gary Avis, Dancer
Iana Salenko, Dancer
Steven McRae, Dancer
Yasmine Naghdi, Dancer
Olivia Cowley, Dancer
Nicol Edmonds, Dancer
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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.