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...Marianela Nuñez danced her first Royal Ballet Swan Lake in 2005, before Wednesday’s youngest cygnets were fully fledged, and the dual role of the enchanted Swan Queen and her mysterious doppelgänger holds...
...Muntagirov (him again) coached by Anthony Dowell, the original Beliaev, was at once innocent and irresistible....
...The outgoing president has appointed Scott Atlas, who is not an infectious disease expert, as his own personal coronavirus adviser in an attempt to circumvent officials such as Anthony Fauci, the head of...
...Núñez is the embodiment of these apparent contradictions: a diva in a dirndl....
...Marianela Nuñez was an irreproachable Odette/Odile. Unfailingly precise and controlled, she melted perceptibly in her long Act One dialogue with Peter Manning’s violin....
...The return of William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude found its title superbly realised in the gleaming bravura of Marianela Núñez (she produced a quadruple pirouette of blissful aptness)...
...After the Rain uses pallid scores by Arvo Pärt and is redeemed by a touching duet, well done by Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares; Within the Golden Hour contrives to surmount the string-writing of Ezio...
...Des Grieux’s solos were shaped on Anthony Dowell and are almost a pastiche of classical perfectionism....
...The admirable Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli play out the tale with studious inevitability, attendant dancers do their stuff as huntresses and hounds, and I cared not a damn....
...(It is to be viewed in the recording made with Natalya Makarova and Anthony Dowell in the leading roles.)...
...This staging by Anthony Dowell has but one thing in its favour: a choreographic text nearer to the 1894-95 staging by Petipa and Ivanov in St Petersburg than any other we see today....
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