National Ballet of Canada - Anna Karenina
A new Anna for 2025
Why see National Ballet of Canada - Anna Karenina?
North American Premiere
National Ballet of Canada opens a golden tome of Russian Literature for Christian Spuck's new imagining of Tolstoy's tale of love, passion, honor, and emotion. Thoroughly moving and wonderfully poignant, this exciting new staging will take the tale back to its 19th-century roots with sumptuous sets, costumes and brand-new choreography.
What Is Anna Karenina About?
Telling the tale of the spirited Countess Anna and her salacious affair with the handsome Count Vronksy, it encompasses many themes, including morality and societal pressure as their passion burns brightly before igniting into an explosive and unforgettable finale. Much like Tolstoy's sprawling masterpiece War and Peace, Anna Karenina is a finely wrought saga that transports the reader (or the viewer) into a bustling saga that captures every human emotion with biting drama and pursed wit over monumental landscape; making it perfect fodder for the medium of ballet.
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Dates
Jun 13 - 21
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Reviews
Customer reviews
14 reviews, average rating: (2.1 Stars)
Mario
Genius
everylevel of this production, from choreographer to the dancers to the orchestra are genius; although, not for bourgeois philistines- breathtaking. ... Read more
Shampa
Compelling Perfomance
Evocative music...creating and contrasting the
various moods of the performance...jarring
dissonant pieces of the betrayal scenes went
effectively against the boisterous music of the
mother/son play scenes as well as the Cat
Stevens tracks for the country bumpkin Levin
who seemed like the salt of the earth kinda
character who, in my opinion, stole the show!
The dancing was seamless, fluid and
breathtaking...I didn’t connect much with
Vronsky or Alexei...but I did see how their
personalities evolved from start to end. I
definitely did not get why Anna’s son was a
grown adult who was bigger than her wearing
kids clothes. It was weird. I get that maybe the
role was to complicated for a child, but it could
have been simplified to suit an actual child.
Overall I loved this performance. Hats off to
the colour scheme, the scenery and props. I
felt they were simple which allowed me to
focus on the emotions, storyline and dancing
styles of the performers. ... Read more
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