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...Vadim Muntagirov’s 2022 run of Rudolfs in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling has darkened and intensified his unmissable reading of Siegfried....
...Osipova’s reading of Kenneth MacMillan’s anti-heroine grows ever more detailed and complex....
...Ryoichi Hirano, fresh from his triumph in Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto with the pocket-sized Ballet Nights initiative in Docklands the previous evening, danced the role of Espada....
...He was well matched by Marianela Nuñez’s sassy, sure-footed Terpsichore (the evening could easily be subtitled “Marianela at 41”)....
...Marianela Nuñez was a scene-stealing Mitzi Kaspar, her box-fresh pointe shoes highlighting her impeccable footwork....
...There, she was one of a group of distinctive ballerinas (Alina Cojocaru, Marianela Nuñez and Leanne Benjamin among them) who made every show in the late 2000s a thrilling contrast to the next....
...The ears and the tail went, as ever, to Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov, both clearly bursting with pride and joy at returning to their beloved stage....
...His longest and most celebrated partnership was with Marianela Núñez....
...The latest marathon run of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet has seen a flurry of house debuts — not all of them scheduled....
...Hirano’s interpretation of Kenneth MacMillan’s unhappy prince doesn’t yet have the emotional force of his Leontes in The Winter’s Tale but he is an exemplary partner and elegant technician and he rose to...
...The constant mooching and hugging of the sisters began to look like padding and Thiago Soares appeared underpowered and unconvincing as the dashing Vershinin, giving Marianela Nuñez little to work with....
...Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan’s study of the deaths of Archduke Rudolf and his mistress Mary Vetsera at the Royal Hunting Lodge in 1889, is a consummate theatrical machine — exact in evoking a past, crafted...
...There were two George Balanchine duets and five Kenneth MacMillan extracts on the menu, not all of them obvious gala fare....
...Out of context, the agonised farewell pas de deux from Winter Dreams, Kenneth MacMillan’s potted Three Sisters, can look decidedly overwrought....
...The Royal Ballet’s latest revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 Manon got off to a less than thrilling start at the Royal Opera House last Friday despite some excellent work in the ranks....
...In the blink of an eye, just as she is completing her perilous plunge, Nuñez lets out a small cry and curls up on the floor....
...At this performance the Royal Ballet showed us its newly revised version of Kenneth MacMillan’s The Prince of the Pagodas, his last full-length ballet, first seen in 1989....
...With great acumen, Kenneth MacMillan made Manon as an audience-pleaser....
...The Sir Kenneth MacMillan triple bill in repertory at Covent Garden is dominated by his last and most daring work, The Judas Tree....
...The sets for Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet Romeo and Juliet lie in one corner of the backstage area: it’s coming towards the end of this particular run....
...Praise for the ensemble, playing with great verve, and an especial bouquet for Marianela Nunez as Lescaut’s mistress: dance and feeling lustrous, impeccably shown. **** Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...
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