Hungarian National Ballet's stylish Flames of Paris

By Jenifer Sarver, 07 February 2021

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“making one want to enter the computer screen and hurry back to the theatre as soon as it is possible”

Reviewed at Erkel Színház (Erkel Theatre), Budapest on 6 February 2021

The Flames of Paris (Vasily Vainonen)

Hungarian National Ballet

Balázs Kocsár, Conductor

Oleg Molchanov, Set Designer

Nóra Rományi, Costume Designer

Tatiana Melnik, Dancer

Gergely Leblanc, Dancer

Yourim Lee, Dancer

Anna Krupp, Dancer

Gergö Ármin Balázsi, Dancer

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

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Jenifer Sarver

Jenifer Sarver was the first American to be hired as soloist with the ballet of the Teatr Wielki in Lodz, Poland, and has also been a soloist with Ireland’s Cork City Ballet, a member of the Slovene National Ballet (Maribor, Slovenia), the Opera na Zamku (Szczecin, Poland), the San Diego Ballet and the California Ballet. Ms. Sarver has also been a guest principal dancer and performed the complete classical repertoire. She has enjoyed two full-time assistant professorships, served as an artistic director for a regional ballet company and taught, choreographed and set repertoire all over the world.

Hungarian National Ballet sets Vainonen's Flames of Paris alight in style