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“It Perfectly Tells the Story of Onegin…”

By Martin West
Music Director & Principal Conductor
January 11, 2012

Now that Nutcracker is behind us, my thoughts are turning already to the Repertory Season and to the works new to us this season. First up will be Cranko’s Onegin, a ballet that I have wanted to conduct ever since I first saw it in England at The Royal Ballet. It’s a piece full of [...]

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What a Week!

By Martin West
Music Director & Principal Conductor
March 25, 2011

What a week! I’m so proud to be the music director of the Orchestra—they’ve received such deservedly great reviews for Coppélia. It’s as if they’ve been playing it all their lives but actually, most of them saw the music for the first time, four days before we opened! As soon as we’re done performing Program 5, [...]

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