MakarovaFan Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Who are your favorite Manons? Link to comment
richard53dog Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Who are your favorite Manons? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is sort of cheating because I saw these two in the bedroom pas de deux only, not the complete ballet, but anyway, Sibley and Ferri Richard Link to comment
Cygnet Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Who are your favorite Manons? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Natalia Makarova Jennifer Penney Viviana Durante Altynai Asylmuratova Link to comment
paul Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Lyn Seymore, of course. No one came even close to her presence on stage and to the drama she created., Link to comment
Old Fashioned Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 I've only seen Nina Ananiashvili perform live in the entire ballet. Don't think she's entirely suited to the role. Sara Webb is wonderful in the bedroom pdd. On video I've only seen Penney. How I long to see Seymour in Manon or R&J; perhaps I would have a different view of those ballets if I come across archive videos of her in those roles. Link to comment
ami1436 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Being relatively new to England and for the first time in my life living close to a ballet company, let alone one that performs Manon, I thus admit that I've only been seeing Manon for the past 3 years or so. Of the ones I've seen live (off the top of my head: Guillem, Rojo, Cojocaru, Tapper), Tamara Rojo always blows me away. Link to comment
Terry Hoyland Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 MacMillan created Manon for Antoinette Sibley and she remains the best of them all, both dramatically and dancewise. Terry Link to comment
Giannina Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 I've seen good and bad Manons. I saw Leanne Benjamin dance the bedroom pdd and I was surprised at how much I liked her....right up there with my favorites. Giannina Link to comment
bart Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 I'm hesitant to say this, but my favorite Manon is my only Manon. Darcey Bussell. Question: why is Bussell the one name almost always left OUT of Ballet Talk posts. Is my middlebrow mentality showing? P.S.: I also liked Beverly Sills's Manon, decades ago at NYC Opera. Another big, irrepressible, and quite postitive personallity in the arts. Link to comment
ami1436 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I'm hesitant to say this, but my favorite Manon is my only Manon. Darcey Bussell. Question: why is Bussell the one name almost always left OUT of Ballet Talk posts. Is my middlebrow mentality showing? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No, not at all Bart! And of course she has her fans. I personally haven't seen a lot of her this season, and I tend not to prefer her in roles that require more acting/character. That said, I thought she was excellent in Act III of Raymonda, I think two seasons ago. Giannina, I haven't seen Leanne Benjamin as Manon but I can imagine her being excellent. She'll be dancing it next season, with Jonathan Cope as her partner. Cope also tends to split the fan base, but I consider him an excellent partner. His opening solo in Manon, in the opening night of the run earlier this year, was simply sublime - a gorgeous arabesque, glances at just the right moment, everything. It will be interesting to see these two together in this (although I feel gutted that Japan gets Rojo and Cope together in Manon this summer!). Link to comment
sylvia Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 I was mad that Leanne and Johan Kobborg's Manons this year were Paul Hamlyn performances only (reduced priced matinees to introduce people to ballet and opera for the first time - obviously I don't qualify!) I imagine they would've been fantastic together. I'm with you Ami in the unfairness that Cope's dancing with Rojo only on the tour, (not just Manon but Swan Lake too which he supposedly retired from!) Anyway, Sylvie Guillem and Tamara Rojo's "Marilyn Monroe-inspired" Manons have to be my favourite. Cojocaru and Kobborg for their pdds too, so wild and reckless that they've actually resulted in accidents I would love to see Ferri in this someday. ABT doesn't bring Manon out often does it? Link to comment
Giselle05 Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 I have only ever seen Vishneva and Malakhov (not live) in the bedroom scene. I too would love to see Ferri in it...how long ago did ABT do Manon? Link to comment
Giannina Posted June 26, 2005 Share Posted June 26, 2005 I saw Ferri in ABT's Manon and she was wonderful. Giannina Link to comment
glowstop Posted November 27, 2006 Share Posted November 27, 2006 i've only seen ABT dancer in Manon but i hold Ferri and Bocca above all others kent was not bad but she cant hold a candle to ferri Link to comment
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