Les Patineurs / Winter Dreams / The Concert review " festive cheer and tears at the Royal Ballet
Royal Opera House, London A fine take on Chekhov's melancholy Three Sisters brings bite to this seasonal triple bill, before ice skaters and lovers restore the yuletide glowWho needs festive cheer when you could have a slow, Slavic slide into midwinter depression? I'd trade any number of Nutcrackers for Kenneth MacMillan's beautifully bleak Winter Dreams, from 1991. Based on Chekhov's Three Sisters, it's a ballet of …