Pandora unveiled: an arresting new creation in Rome

By Graham Watts, 29 January 2021

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“Pandora is much like one of those earthenware, funerary jars... only smashed into fragments”

Reviewed at Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Rome on 29 January 2021

Pandora (Simone Valastro)

Ballo del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Carlo Donadio, Conductor

Andrea Miglio, Set Designer

Anna Biagiotti, Costume Designer

Fabrizio Marinelli, Lighting Designer

Rebecca Bianchi, Dancer

Claudio Cocino, Dancer

Damiano Mongelli, Dancer

Alessandra Amato, Dancer

Agnieszka Jadwiga Grochala, Soprano

Marianna Mappa, Soprano

Angela Schisano, Mezzo-soprano

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.

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