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An ecstatic, fevered Tatiana from Natalia Osipova as Cranko's Onegin returns

By Mark Pullinger, 19 January 2020
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“Osipova is the Tatiana of one’s dreams, exquisitely danced, passionate, nothing held back”
Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 18 January 2020
Programme
Onegin (John Cranko)
Performers
The Royal Ballet
Valery Ovsyanikov, Conductor
Jürgen Rose, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Steen Bjarke, Lighting Designer
Natalia Osipova, Dancer
Reece Clarke, Dancer
Francesca Hayward, Dancer
Matthew Ball, Dancer
Gary Avis, Dancer
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Thiago Soares, Dancer
Itziar Mendizabal, 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.