Mariinsky
4.30 am. Encounter with GergievTuesday, 15 September 2009
Outside it’s snowing in the pale and spectral city of St Petersburg. Inside it’s 4.30 am and we’ve been drinking for several hours in a restaurant next to the Mariinsky Theatre when Valery Gergiev, for many the world’s greatest conductor and with a... Read more... |
Alina Somova: dancer or circus pony?Monday, 03 August 2009
It is a curious feeling to go to meet a hated figure and find a delicate, blonde girl with a sweet face.On Monday, 23-year-old ballerina Alina Somova opens the batting for the legendary Mariinsky Ballet’s Covent Garden tour in Romeo and Juliet,... Read more... |
Ulyana Lopatkina: The beanpole who became the soul of RussiaSaturday, 09 July 2005
If you tell a tall, whisper-slim young woman of 31 that she has been described as "the soul of Russia", it is understandable that she looks startled. Two huge, smoke-grey eyes cast a doubtful glance at me, and she murmurs in Russian. Her translator... Read more... |
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