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Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Producer: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Ballet Mistress: Lyudmila Nerubashchenko Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating:   The phrase ‘curates egg’ springs to mind. Having enjoyed a number of Moscow City Ballet productions over the year, Swan Lake certainly was enjoyable but perhaps not quite as pleasing as productions in previous seasons. As my young companion suggested, [...]

Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Choreographer: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov after Marius Petipa Conductor: Igor Shavruk Reviewer: Nicole Evans The Public Reviews Rating: The first thing you notice when entering the Derngate auditorium is the stage. Even with the curtain down its size alone leaves an instant impression and before you have even found your seat the excitement of what awaits behind [...]

Composer: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Producer: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Ballet Mistress: Lyudmila Nerubashenko Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: There is always a slight frisson of excitement when the phrases, Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake, a Moscow Ballet Company, are put together and there was certainly a frisson last night as a packed house at Brighton waited to be entranced. Well, I [...]

Music: Sergei Prokoviev Choreographer: Victor Smirnov Golovanog Reviewer: Lu Greer The Public Reviews Rating: To say that the Moscow City Ballet’s version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is good is probably very obvious, as the Ballet company is of course one of Russia’s most successful touring companies, and it is almost impossible to criticise any of Shakespeare’s work. [...]

Music: Sergei Prokofiev Choreography: Natalia Ryshenko & Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov The Public Reviews Rating: Moscow City Ballet (MCB) must be one of the hardest working ballet troupes in the world. From January 3rd to end of March they will have done nearly 70 shows throughout the UK; varying performances between The Nutcracker, Giselle, Swan Lake and, tonight’s show, Romeo [...]

Composer: Tchaikovsky Original Choreography: Petipa Adapted Choreography: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Reviewer: Ann Bawtree The Public Reviews Rating: What an embarrassment of riches to have so many first class classical dancers on hand that they are not identified in a cast list. There was no way to know who was dancing Clara, Drosselmeyer, the Nutcracker Prince or the Sugar [...]

Reviewer: Jemma Bicknell The Public Reviews Rating: Swan Lake, the most popular ballet of all time, has been performed on umpteen stages across the UK, by as many companies. Done well, it can provide the most glorious evening, with its familiar plot, costumes, and famous Tchaikovsky music. Moscow City Ballet certainly delivered, managing to cram the grand two-act [...]

Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Director: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Choreographers: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov, Lyudmila Nerubashenko Conductor: Igor Shavruk Reviewer: Gina Skillings The Public Reviews Rating: Founded by former Bolshoi Ballet soloist and choreographer Victor Smirnov-Golovanov, for the past 20 years Moscow City Ballet has been one of Russia’s most successful touring companies and is accompanied by a live orchestra. In the [...]