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The Arts Intel Report

Swan Lake

Mar 1 – May 28, 2022
Bow St, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, UK

This gleaming production from 2018, choreographed after Petipa and Ivanov by the late Liam Scarlett, was the first new Swan Lake at the Royal in 30 years. The sets and costumes by John Macfarlane are rich in Romanticism, then undone by evil. Look for the blown-open ballroom of Act Three. —Laura Jacobs