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...Manon’s pimping brother Lescaut was played by Alexander Campbell and Luca Acri. Both made neat work of the toe-twisting act one solos but both overplayed the drunk duet....
...Alexander Campbell attacked the third movement with fierce glee, showing off his eggbeater entrechats, and Hay and Hayward were neatly matched in the fourth....
...Yasmine Naghdi and Alexander Campbell were outstanding in the peasant pas de six — a rare treat to have principal dancers cast in these important cameos — and a promise of delights to come when they tackle...
...Yasmine Naghdi, recovering well from an unlucky slip, was a bright, expansive Rose Fairy....
...Last Saturday’s casts — Akane Takada and James Hay at the matinee, Yuhui Choe and Alexander Campbell at the evening performance — all struck the right note of passionate innocence....
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