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Dance

Raymonda (Bolshoi, Coliseum) Russian bravura Giannandrea Poesio I have often wondered how Russian bal- letomanes might have reacted to the vision scene in the first act of......

Opera

Les Bareades (Albert Hall) All for the best Michael Tanner Ai yone in search of a happy mytholo- gy, as Richard Strauss was, but in vain, in Die Liebe der Danae, needed to look......