Rendering 8

The article which is called  Giselle, Mikhailovsky Ballet, Coliseum, review was published in The Telegraph by Mark Monahan.  This article told about young superstars Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova that make the Mikhailovsky’s current London run worth a look. At the close of 2011, Vladimir Kekhman whipped up a maelstrom by pinching the Moscow-based Bolshoi’s young superstars Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova for his own Mikhailovsky Ballet. It was a considerable coup for the dance-loving banana magnate and second-tier St Petersburg company, and it is supremely this magnifcent on- and off-stage couple that make the Mikhailovsky’s current London run worth a look.The author that unlike, say, the atom-bomb-of-camp Spartacus from its first London visit five years ago, the company’s Giselle is a measured affair that does its best to get as close as possible to the 19th-century original. Textually, it is traditional; visually, it is far from outstanding. The costumes are plain at best, Act 1’s set is a litte Disney-ish, and Act 2 not nearly as “dank, chilly and vaporous” (the original libretto’s description) as it should be. In the latter, trees wobble like that immortal pillar in Jim Robinson’s house in Neighbours, and, on Tuesday, the Queen of the Wilis – a suitably icy Ekaterina Borchenko – was sadly upstaged by some waywardly levitating vegetation.And in the end of rhe article the author told that these two Titans here eclipsed everyone else on stage to a distracting degree: those used to the Royal Ballet’s corps (and indeed orchestra) may have been disappointed, besides which it remains to be seen how the remaining Giselle casts will fare by comparison. Still, anything’s possible, and at any rate this truly remarkable duo will be fronting other works by the Mikhailovsky between now and April 7. I’d get booking.