Swan Lake
Cork Opera House
★★★★★
Cork City Ballet’s portrayal of the undying romance of witchcraft and longing told in Swan Lake explains how this story has not only survived since the Mariinsky company’s staging of the ballet, in St Petersburg in 1895, but also defied variations and rewarded expectations.
Here, under Alan Foley’s crisp direction, full measure is given to the demands on its dancers, whose precision denies any suggestion of effort.
By now each performa
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