For information on deleting the cookies, please consult your browser’s help function. But an equally vivid register of Albrecht’s character is his relationship with his squire, played by Johannes Stepanek. What clarity and fluidity those six dancers brought to the work. He dances with extraordinary hummingbird lightness. Technically thrilling … Vadim Muntagirov as Albrecht and Marianela Nuñez as Giselle. In welcoming Vadim, Linda reminded the audience that he had been a guest of the LBC in the autumn of 2013 when, if he was thinking about joining The Royal Ballet (RB), he wasn’t letting on. In 1999, he entered Perm Choreographic Ballet Institute. Vadim Muntagirov was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia. And we’re shown how brutally unbridgeable the gulf between village and court remains with the arrival of the Duke and his entourage – Christina Arestis’s Bathilde is so lost to exquisite ennui that she can barely muster an expression of polite disdain when Giselle offers her a posy of flowers. He is at present Lead Principal at the Royal Ballet in Covent Garden London. Far from being a doom-struck victim, she’s an ordinary young woman whose hunger for life makes her hopelessly susceptible to Albrecht’s ardour. Vadim Muntagirov, who was Polunin’s contemporary at the Royal Ballet School, is an almost perfect prince. Decide which cookies you want to allow. More details including streaming link (costs £4.99) Vadim Muntagirov, on his own on the empty stage of the Royal Opera House, will open the second Live … As though dancing it for the first time … Muntagirov and Nuñez in Giselle. This season, Vadim Muntagirov makes his debut as the duplicitous Count Albrecht and he dances the role magnificently. Vadim Muntagirov – a biography. Polina Semionova has been booked to reprise her smash-hit turn in the ENB’s Swan Lake — this time, paired with hot-but-incredibly-inexperienced Vadim Muntagirov, 20, straight out of ballet school. 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(Currently we do not use targeting or targeting cookies), Advertising: Gather personally identifiable information such as name and location. This website uses cookies to improve your experience and to show you personalised content. They have guested in galas around the world including Singapore, Denmark, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New York and Japan. You can change these settings at any time. Innately elegant, with his graceful carriage, finely stretched feet, and crisp, soaring jump, he moves with privilege bred in his bones. After winning Prix de Lausanne in 2006 he was invited to continue his training at the Royal Ballet Upper School, graduating in 2009. Vadim Muntagirov has performed leading roles in all the classical repertory. In Wright’s production, the ensemble are almost as important as the ballerina and her partner. #ngg-gallery-8428fa603d39691f6e5415dc7d4864e1 .ngg-pro-masonry-item { Would you like to receive an email whenever we publish a new post? Innately elegant … Muntagirov as Count Albrecht. Muntagirov made his debut with American Ballet Theatre in 2012 dancing Solor in La Bayadère at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D. C. Vadim has created quite a stir since he arrived on the scene in 2009, and his partnership with Daria Klimentová has been hailed by critics as the new Fonteyn/Nuryev. Yet it’s also a ballet about society and class, and Peter Wright’s production has always been outstanding for the human texture it gives to the world the two lovers inhabit, and for the dramatic opportunities it gives to the entire cast. Muntagirov and Nuñez are technically thrilling; she, at her finest moments, can combine an absolute mastery of the choreography, with the illusion that she’s dancing it for the first time. The Act I Pas de Six is a near textbook display of musicality and style, and apart from a slightly shaky start to Itziar Mendizabal’s Myrtha, the Wilis are collectively both lethal and sublime. Vadim is nominated this year for the Benois prize of best male dancer. Royal Opera House, LondonThe acting is superb and the dancing has real authority in Peter Wright’s production which opens up dramatic opportunities for the whole cast, Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 19.26 EST.