On the evening of Tuesday 1 March, I enjoyed a superb birthday treat - a seat at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where the first of a new series of performances of Swan Lake was being given by the Royal Ballet.
Before the ballet began, the company's director Kevin O'Hare appeared on stage to announce that the Opera House would henceforth be illuminated in the Ukrainian colours blue and yellow and that all performances would be preceded by the Ukrainian national anthem. The audience responded with great enthusiasm.
The evening's star male dancer Vadim Muntagirov is, of course, Russian but has never, as far as I know, expressed any political stance. At the end of the performance, his outstanding performance was cheered to the rafters.
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