Jewels; The Metamorphosis – review

Royal Opera House; Linbury Studio, LondonThere was something infinitely poignant about George Balanchine's obsession with Suzanne Farrell. The year was 1967. He was the 63-year-old director of the New York City Ballet, she was the company's 21-year-old ballerina, and hoping against hope that she would be his, he created a ballet for her in which she was at once princess and Swan Queen, and which ends with a representation of a wedding.The ballet was Diamonds, the third in a scintillating triptyc...

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