People Premieres Features

THE NORWEGIAN NATIONAL BALLET HIGHLIGHTS SEASON 15/16

• Manon • Back to the Future • Anna Karenina

• The Nutcracker • An Evening with Kylián: Black & White • Ekman`s A Swan Lake • Gala

Tickets can be purchased at operaen.no. People You can also visit our box office or call +47 21 42 21 21 16 Ulyana Lopatkina CATHERINE PAWLICK meets the Mariinsky Ballet’s prima ballerina

46 Alena Shkatula EMMA KAULDHAR encounters Estonia’s ballerina from Minsk

52 Marina Minoiu MIKE DIXON meets an enchanting Marguerite in Bucharest

55 Obituary Premieres Jonathan Ollivier remembered 10 1984 66 Jorge Crecis MIKE DIXON contemplates a ballet inspired CARLOS FORCADA speaks to the London- by George Orwell based Spanish choreographer about min tala 42 Lidberg, Horecna and Verbruggen LAURA CAPPELLE catches three summer premieres by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

56 Le Corsaire CATHERINE PAWLICK considers Mikhail Messerer’s new staging for the Mikhailovsky Ballet

Features

36 Critics’ Choice The best and the not so good of last season

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