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Victoria: Northern Ballet delivers intriguing history lesson at Sadler's Wells

By Mark Pullinger, 30 March 2019
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“Pippa Moore’s Beatrice is an observer rather than a protagonist, yet she constantly draws the eye”
Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 29 March 2019
Programme
Victoria (Cathy Marston)
Performers
Northern Ballet
Jonathan Lo, Conductor
Steffen Aarfing, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Abigail Prudames, Dancer
Pippa Moore, Dancer
Mika Akuta, Dancer
Joseph Taylor, Dancer
Mlindie Kulashe, Dancer
Sean Bates, Dancer
Alastair West, Lighting Designer
Northern Ballet Sinfonia
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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.