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Title: Don't waste your roubles
Review: I share the views of my fellow balletomane and reviewer, Jack Wilensky, but will be less generous than he in my rating (1 vs 2 stars). There is absolutely nothing in this production of merit. I can only hope that Patrice Bart's equally deplorable re-staging of Coppelia (for the POB) never makes it to DVD, as it was torture to sit through it (at 80 Euros per ticket, no less). Although I would never say "no to innovation," there are some ballets where too radical a departure from the original choreography / libretto (Bejart's Nutcracker and Bourne's Swan Lake come to mind) simply destroys the beauty of the work. And I regret that's just what the Mariinsky succeeded in doing here. Stick to the definitive (though hardly flawless) Australian Ballet version.
