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Performers: A Season in Photographs
Performers: A Season in Photographs
Laurie Lewis, the pre-eminent photographer of opera and ballet, shares an exclusive record of the 2012-13 season
Saturday, 06 July 2013
Eva Yerbabuena, Flamenco Festival, Sadler's WellsAll images © Laurie Lewis
A stage performance in any art form communicates through sound and motion. A photographer's task is to capture the dramatic experience in the silence and stillness of the 2D image. In the worlds of ballet and opera, none does it with more commitment to truth and drama than the great Laurie Lewis. To mark the end of the 2012-13 season, we present 25 images selected by the photographer exclusively for theartsdesk.
They comprise a snapshot of the last nine months of work witnessed by audiences at the Royal Opera House, Sadler's Wells, the London Coliseum, the Barbican and beyond. There's even one shot from an airfield. And another from a circus.
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Sarah Lamb and Eric Underwood in Raven Girl, Royal Ballet
Barbara Hannigan and Christopher Purves in Written On Skin, Royal Opera
Dawid Trzensimiech and Yasmine Naghdi in Liam Scarlett's Viscera, Royal Ballet
Lawrence Zazzo and Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre in Julius Caesar, English National Opera
Toby Spence and Valery Gergiev perform Szymanowski, Barbican Hall
Sarah Lamb and Brian Maloney in The Prince of the Pagodas, Royal Ballet
Roderick Williams in Sunken Garden, English National Opera
Ruxandra Donose and Adam Diegel in Carmen, English National Opera
Jone San Martin in William Forsythe’s Study No 3, Sadler's Wells
Jonas Kaufmann in Don Carlo, Royal Opera
Julie Anne Stanzak in Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Viktor, Sadler's Wells
Patricia Bardon and Sandra Bullock in Benjamin Britten's Gloriana, Royal Opera
Kristen McNally in Les Noces, Royal Ballet
John Graham-Hall and Sam Zaldivar in Death in Venice, ENO
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev in Giselle, Mikhailovsky Ballet Season, Coliseum
Lukas Jakobski and Anna Caterina Antonacci in Les Troyens, Royal Opera
Alek Shrader and Stéphanie d'Oustrac in L'heure espagnole, Glyndebourne
Helgi Thomasson's Trio, San Francisco Ballet, Sadler's Wells
Kelley O’Connor and Troy Ogilvie in The Gospel According To The Other Mary, Barbican Hall
Cellist Laura Moody preparing for Mittwoch aus Licht, Birmingham Opera Company
Hoops manipulator in Kooza, Cirque Du Soleil, Royal Albert Hall
Donald Kaasch and Christopher Purves in The Perfect American, ENO
Hippolyte et Aricie, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Marianela Nunez and Eric Underwood in Christopher Wheeldon’s Fool's Paradise, Royal Ballet
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