Tag Archives: Evgenia Obraztsova

Romeo and Juliet, with McRae and Obraztsova, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, October 2013

Posted on 23 October 2013

For dancing and characterisation of the roles this second performance in the current run was close to perfection. Steven McRae and Evgenia Obraztsova, guest principal from the Bolshoi Ballet, took us to an ethereal world beyond technique. When we first encounter her with her nurse she charmed us with her airy grace, and her sweetness …

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Review of Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House, August 2009

Posted on 15 August 2009

The corps de ballet danced superbly, Igor Kolb made a very fine prince, and Maxim Zuzin danced delightfully as the bluebird. All might have been well if Pavel Bubelnikov could have done a decent job conducting

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Homage to Balanchine, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House, August 2009

Posted on 13 August 2009

Symphony in C … to Bizet’s Symphony No. 1 … is a blaze of action, … designed to show off a classical ballet company…

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