Stealing fire: Beethoven's Prometheus choreographed afresh at DNB

By Mark Pullinger, 10 June 2021

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“their visions unite around the remarkable central portrayal of Prometheus by Timothy van Poucke”

Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 8 June 2021

Grosse Fuge (Hans van Manen)

Prometheus (World premiere) (Wubkje Kuindersma, Ernst Meisner, Remi Wörtmeyer)

Dutch National Ballet

Marzio Conti, Conductor

Jean-Paul Vroom, Set Designer

Hans van Manen, Costume Designer

Joop Caboort, Lighting Designer

Tatyana van Walsum, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Carlo Cerri, Lighting Designer

Timothy van Poucke, Dancer

Daniel Silva, Dancer

Sho Yamada, Dancer

Floor Eimers, Dancer

Riho Sakamoto, Dancer

Young Gyu Choi, Dancer

Erica Horwood, Dancer

Vito Mazzeo, Dancer

YuanYuan Zhang, Dancer

Martin ten Kortenaar, Dancer

Connie Vowles, Dancer

Michele Esposito, Dancer

Salome Leverashvili, Dancer

Semyon Velichko, Dancer

Qian Liu, Dancer

James Stout, Dancer

Edo Wijnen, Dancer

Maia Makhateli, Dancer

Dutch National Ballet Orchestra

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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.

Stealing fire: Beethoven's Prometheus choreographed afresh at Dutch National Ballet