The Royal Ballet - The Seven Deadly Sins/Pierrot Lunaire/La Fin Du Jour
From: Thursday, 26th April 2007
To: Wednesday, 9 May 2007
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Our Review:
27 April 2007
Dancers in their delicates seem to have characterised the Royal Ballet’s Seven Deadly Sins, but white-pantalooned Pierrot Lunaire still proves the most affecting part of this lively loss-of-innocence triple-bill at the Royal Opera House.
Writer Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill’s 1933 morality tale The Seven Deadly Sins opens the evening with two Annas, dancer Zenaida Yanowsky and folk songstress Martha Wainwright, embarking on a journey to “the great big cities where you go to make the money”. Leaving behind the safety of the bright earnest Louisianan moon, the Annas travel from town to town finding themselves the subject of desire, violence, pornographic films and eventually hollow Hollywood glamour.
Wainwright narrates the action through sung Brechtian verse as Yanowsky spends minutes at a time carried from bed to bed, between one man and the next, at the mercy of each deadly sin. Yet, in dark garters and bra, Yanowsky r...
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Sarah Grant - 6 May 2007:
I hadn't intended to see this because I don't usually like ballet in modern dress but your review made me curious mainly of Pierrot Lunaire and La Fin Du Jour. Both were technically delightful and even Seven Deadly Sins won me over with it's combination of slick sets, raspy vocals (well done Martha!)and exciting steps. I'm really glad I went....
Cast
Martha Wainwright (singer - Seven Deadly Sins)
Zenaida Yanowsky
Marianela Nunez
Ivan Putrov
Deirdre Chapman
Carlos Acosta
Federico Bonelli
Mara Galeazzi
Edward Watson
Alina Cojocaru
Sarah Lamb
Ricardo Cervera
Isabel McMeekan
Rupert Pennefather
Joshua Tuifua
Creative
Martin Yates (Apr 26/27/ May 4/9 at 19:30 Apr 28 at 14:30) (Conductor)
Richard Bernas (Apr 26/27/ May 4/9 at 19:30 Apr 28 at 14:30) (Conductor)
Kurt Weill (Seven Deadly Sins) (Music)
William Tuckett (Seven Deady Sins) (Choreographer)
Lez Brotherston (Seven Deadly Sins) (Design)
Paule Constable (Seven Deadly Sins) (Lighting)
Arnold Schoenberg (Pierrot Lunaire) (Music)
O.E. Hartleben (Pierrot Lunaire) (Lyrics)
Glen Tetley (Pierrot Lunaire) (Choreographer)
Bronwen Curry (staging - Pierrot Lunaire) (Other)
Rouben Ter-Arutunian (Pierrot Lunaire) (Design)
John B. Read (Pierrot Lunaire) (Lighting)
Maurice Ravel (La Fin Du Jour) (Music)
Kenneth MacMillan (La Fin Du Jour) (Choreographer)
Ian Spurling (La Fin Du Jour) (Design)
Monica Parker (staging - La Fin Du Jour) (Other)
John B. Read (La Fin Du Jour) (Lighting)
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