Published: April 07, 2022
The Australian Ballet, Sydney
Yuri Possokhov’s beautiful and distilled version of Leo Tolstoy’s epic tale sees the magnificent Robyn Hendricks in the titular role, alongside rising star Callum Linnane as Count Vronksy
Just before the opening of Anna Karenina, one of the most famous Russian stories of all time, a message is projected on to the stage: “The Australian Ballet opens our heart to the victims of the war in Ukraine.”
It makes for a sobering prologue to this much-anticipated production, which was twice postponed by the pandemic, and now opens in Sydney on a day when the world is learning of Russian atrocities in the city of Bucha. It is a dark time to be watching this story.
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