Royal Opera House, LondonTo reduce Anna Karenina to a two-act ballet is a tough call, and Alexei Ratmansky's version (seen in the UK for the first time this week) is an intellectual and visual feat of compression. However, to distil the emotional power of Tolstoy's novel into 90 minutes of stage time is a much more elusive task.This Anna is set to Rodion Shchedrin's purpose-written score, and it takes its cue from th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM on August 10, 2011