Barcelona is opened traditionally by Our Lady of the Mercy, (September 24), except some stajanovists like professor Bassegoda, for who it looks like the vacations are a bourgeois prejudice.
But this year has come before Giselle. What sense has it in our days a ballet of nineteenth-century structure and of so romantic taste? None, if it is not that Tamara Rojo dances it. And this way it has been, perfect in the form and splendidly accompanied for José Manuel Carreńo.
Tamaro-Giselle, with her madness and her humanity, has opened Barcelona. This year begins with the love that penetrates the border of the death, with Giselle.
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