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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Libretto: Marius Petipa Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Artistic Director: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Chorographer: Marius Petipa Reviewer: Ruth Lovett The Public Reviews Rating: Manchester welcomes the Moscow City Ballet back to the Palace Theatre for a very brief time performing the classic ballet Sleeping Beauty. The story is a well-known one; the princess Aurora is born in to a fairy kingdom [...]

Music: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Libretto: Vladimir Begichev and Vasily Geltzer Director: Natalia Ryzhenko, Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Choreography: Lev Ivanov, Marius Petipa, Agrippina Vaganova, Yuri Grigorovich, Natalia Ryzhenko, Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Reviewer: Sara Jackson The Public Reviews Rating: The Moscow City Ballet presenting Swan Lake as part of a season which also includes The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet and Sleeping beauty. [...]

Music : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Director: Victor Smirnov-Golovanov Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: We had a really enjoyable evening at the Chichester Festival Theatre last night. I do not profess to be anything like an expert on classical ballet but for sheer colour, movement, athleticism ,artistry and of course music, Victor Smirnov-Golovanov’s Moscow City Ballet together [...]