Anne-MM

A truly wonderful performance from everyone but above all from the incomparable Muntagirov.

Just a quick comment as I'm about to travel but I thought Muntagirov's performance last night was superlative, a complete revelation, with other wonderful performances by so many dancers, especially Gasparini (such excellent acting) and Nagdhi.

Am only able to make very brief comment, but thought the performance last night wonderful, notwithstanding gunshot etc!  I thought Hirano's performance was excellent, one of the best I've seen in the role - he started a little slowly but his characterisation after that was moving and I thought Hirano and Osipova in the last act were devastating.  Very impressed with the other dancers, and the ensemble pieces.  Was reminded again about how beautiful the music is. 

10 hours ago, bridiem said:

 

I really hope that's the case, capybara, because she was wonderful as both Odette and Odile. Her Odette was so gentle and expressive and luxurious, with her limbs curving and melting like a sinuous cat and her love for Siegfried enveloping him with such tenderness. Which made her Odile all the more startling - she was positively contemptuous both of him and (even more alarmingly!) of the audience. Her eyes were cold and you got a real sense of evil being not just a presence but an absence - no love, no compassion, no truth. And those eyes were turned on the audience too, including during that back bend when she smiled at us upside down... Chilling. So the fall in the fouettés was so sad because it disrupted a performance to treasure. And yes, she showed great courage in immediately picking herself up an carrying on, and giving a beautiful rendition of Odette's grief in Act IV. She will I'm sure address what happened with the fouettés so that it won't happen again. But it was still a brilliant début.

 

As was Sambé's as Siegfried. So dignified and unhappy in Act I, so loving in Act II, so dazzled in Act III, and so sorrowful in Act IV; and all the time dancing so beautifully and partnering Anna-Rose so securely. 

 

I thought David Yudes was an excellent Benno, and I loved Isabella Gasparini's sister and Yuhui Choe and Leticia Dias as the big swans.

 

Very glad that the Ukrainian national anthem is still being played before performances. Defeating evil forces isn't just for fairy tales.

I completely endorse bridiem's thoughts.  A wonderful performance. 

13 hours ago, Jan McNulty said:

 

Hello Anne-MM and welcome to the Forum!

 

Thank you! 

Wonderful performance last night.  I thought both Naghdi and Muntagirov excellent, especially in Acts 3 and 4.  Muntagirov was not at all showy in his acting but he was, for me anyway, sincere and affecting, and partnered most attentively. Terrific dancing by them, and by so many others in the cast.