Cecilia Bartoli takes a ship to join Valery Gergiev in St Petersburg

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Mar 212012
 

Cecilia Bartoli in Mariinsky Theatre Press conference Cecilia Bartoli takes a ship to join Valery Gergiev in St Petersburg

Yes­ter­day, before ’s highly anti­cip­ated con­cert at the Theater Con­cert Hall in St Peter­burg tomor­row even­ing, she gave a press con­fer­ence along­side who will con­duct the pro­gramme of Moz­art and arias.

Bartoli’s famed avoid­ance of fly­ing (air-conditioning bad for the voice and jet-lag bad for the body) sur­prised many:

Well, I’ve just arrived — and in a very pecu­liar way because I decided to take a ship. And I wanted to see the sea with all the ice… This is some­thing for a Roman. I mean, we never have snow in Rome (well, last winter yes — for the first time in fifty years prob­ably). And then, to come here: the ship cross­ing and cut­ting the ice.… [con­tinue reading]

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The Royal Ballet School — Ninette de Valois: Adventurous Traditionalist

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Dec 182010
 

The Royal Bal­let School is to host a Con­fer­ence to mark the 10th Anniversary of the death of the Founder of The Royal Bal­let School and Com­pan­ies, Dame OM, CH, DBE (1898 — 2001).

This sig­ni­fic­ant and wide-reaching event will be held over the first week­end of April, 2011; open­ing at the , Clore Stu­dio Upstairs on Fri­day 1 April; con­tinu­ing at the Upper School, Floral Street, on 2 April, and con­clud­ing on 3 April at the Lower School, White Lodge, Rich­mond Park.

Ninette de Valois%2C 1914 The Royal Ballet School Ninette de Valois: Adventurous Traditionalist
Image via Wiki­pe­dia

The aim of the Con­fer­ence is to facil­it­ate a rig­or­ous and multi-disciplinary explor­a­tion of de Valois’ life and leg­acy, while pro­mot­ing a pro­duct­ive exchange between dance prac­ti­tion­ers, aca­dem­ics, social his­tor­i­ans and cul­tural com­ment­at­ors, within the con­text of bal­let and the wider theatre.… [con­tinue reading]

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