Royal Albert Hall, LondonEnglish National Ballet's Swan Lake in the round had its premiere in 1997. Choreographed by Derek Deane, then director of the company, it has been seen by more than half a million people. The Royal Albert Hall doesn't lend itself to intimacy, and many of the ballet's more nuanced moments are lost in its vastness, but Deane's production is all about spectacle, with rock'n'roll-scale servings o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on June 15, 2013