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Lacking a sense of abandon: Cranko's Onegin at Staatsballett Berlin

By Mark Pullinger, 08 October 2015
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“Mikhail Kaniskin... didn’t smoulder, but he carried off Onegin’s aloof manner well”
Reviewed at Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlin on 8 October 2015
Programme
Onegin (John Cranko)
Performers
Staatsballett Berlin
Paul Connelly, Conductor
Elisabeth Dalton, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Staatskapelle Berlin
Mikhail Kaniskin, Dancer
Hyo-Jung Kang, Dancer
Krasina Pavlova, Dancer
Marian Walter, Dancer
Martin Szymanski, 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.