Beautiful and full of complexity: Hamburg Ballet's Sylvia

Hamburg Ballet in John Neumeier's Sylvia

Alexandr Trusch as Aminta in John Neumeier's Sylvia

Madoka Sugai as Sylvia in John Neumeier's Sylvia

Madoka Sugai as Sylvia and Anna Laudere as Diana in John Neumeier's Sylvia

Madoka Sugai as Sylvia and Alexandr Trusch as Aminta in John Neumeier's Sylvia

By Maggie Foyer, 26 June 2023

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“a larger-than-life torso of Eros, so dramatic, that it earned a spontaneous round of applause”

Reviewed at Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg on 24 June 2023

Sylvia (John Neumeier)

Hamburg Ballet

Markus Lehtinen, Conductor

Yannis Kokkos, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Madoka Sugai, Dancer

Alexandr Trusch, Dancer

Anna Laudere, Dancer

Christopher Evans, Dancer

Jacopo Bellussi, Dancer

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Maggie Foyer

Maggie Foyer danced with PACT, the State Ballet Company in Johannesburg and Kinetika Contemporary Dance in South Africa. After graduating from the R.A.D., she taught at the Central School of Ballet in London and the Royal Swedish Ballet School. She has MA degrees in Education and Literature and is an associate lecturer in Humanities at the Open University. She has written for Dance Europe, The Dancing Times, Dance Magazine, Danza International, various dance websites and has contributed programme notes for companies including The Royal Ballet and Dutch National Ballet. She is a member of the Critics’ Circle and the National Dance Awards Committee.