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Ratmansky brings Swan Lake back to its nearly original ballet idiom

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“clever and exquisite”
Reviewed at Opernhaus, Zurich on 6 February 2016
Swan Lake (Alexei Ratmansky)
Ballett Zürich
Rossen Milanov, Conductor
Toer van Schayk, Set Designer
Ballett Zürich Junior Company
Orchester der Oper Zürich
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