United Kingdom Liszt (arranged and orchestrated by Lanchbery), Mayerling: Dancers and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet / Martin Yates (conductor), Sergey Levitin (co-concert master), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 19.4.2013. (JO’D)
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Beautiful But Bloodless
India Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Pathé Live ballet-screening, Godrej Dance Academy Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, 14.4.2013 (JSM)
Ecstasy and Death – Ballet Triple Bill
United Kingdom Ecstasy and Death – Ballet Triple Bill: Dancers of English National Ballet, Orchestra of English National Ballet, conducted by Gavin Sutherland. London Coliseum, London, 18.4.2013. (JPr)
Highs and Lows in Canada National Ballet’s Romeo
United Kingdom Prokofiev/Ratmansky, Romeo and Juliet: Dancers of the National Ballet of Canada, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / David Briskin (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 17.4.2013. (JPr)
Imaginative Reworking of Two Stravinsky Ballets
United Kingdom Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring & Petrushka: Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre in collaboration with Sadlers Wells, Lidija Bizjak and Sanja Bizjak (piano), Sadler’s Wells, London, 12.4.2013 . (JOD)
Duato’s Ballet Pays Tribute to Bach and His Music
United Kingdom Bach: Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness: Dancers and Orchestra of Mikhailovsky Ballet / Mikhail Tatarnikov (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 5.4.2013 (MMB)
Royal Ballet Conjures Up the Mysterious Orient
United Kingdom Minkus (orch. Lanchbery) , La Bayadère: Dancers and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet / Valeriy Ovsyanikov (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 5.4.2013. (JOD)
Mikhailovsky Ballet Performs Important ‘Museum Piece’
United Kingdom Alexander Krein, Laurencia: Dancers and Orchestra of the Mikhailovsky Ballet / Valery Ovsyanikov (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 2.4.2013. (JPr)