Nuñez and Hallberg début at La Scala, with Zakharova, Osipova, Bolle and Vasiliev

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May 242013
 

Black White Ball Milan 6 375x500 Nuñez and Hallberg début at La Scala, with Zakharova, Osipova, Bolle and VasilievGood news for dance at La Scala. Cut­ting down on the budget has meant axing three opera pro­duc­tions, but opera’s loss is ballet’s gain, for the ‘cheaper’ bal­let per­form­ances have been bumped up from 49 this sea­son to a health­ier 61.

More guests too will liven up the 2013–2014 sea­son. House fix­tures Svet­lana Zakhar­ova, and Massimo Murru will be joined by return­ing guests Polina Semi­onova and  for Balanchine’s Dia­monds, and Nat­alia Osipova with for Rubies. Osipova and Vasiliev will also dance in Don Quix­ote later in the sea­son, as well as Zakhar­ova with Denis Matvi­enko, mak­ing a long awaited return, and Leonid Sara­fanov will return to Milan as Basilio.

Zakhar­ova and Semi­onova will also appear in Swan Lake with David Hall­berg who will be mak­ing his house début. It will be gloves off for Bolle and Vasiliev in the Petit pro­gramme where they will altern­ate in .

The sea­son con­cludes with MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet with Zakhar­ova and Bolle, Osipova and Vasiliev, and Murru will dance with the ’s Mari­anela Nuñez, who has been to La Scala to watch her on and off-stage part­ner Thi­ago Soares dance, but will be mak­ing her début with the company.

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  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Nuñez and Hallberg début at La Scala, with Zakharova, Osipova, Bolle and Vasiliev
  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Nuñez and Hallberg début at La Scala, with Zakharova, Osipova, Bolle and Vasiliev
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  • wp socializer sprite mask 16px Nuñez and Hallberg début at La Scala, with Zakharova, Osipova, Bolle and Vasiliev
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Claudio Coviello is promoted to primo ballerino at La Scala

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May 052013
 

401531 329186797125924 562326088 n 328x500 Claudio Coviello is promoted to primo ballerino at La Scala21-year-old , who fam­ously stepped in at the last minute to replace Ivan Vasiliev, has been named primo ballerino (prin­cipal) after yesterday’s per­form­ance as Albrecht in Gis­elle.

Born in Potenza, Cov­i­ello received his bal­let train­ing at the school of the and was quickly snapped up by the com­pany at ’s in 2010.

He was awar­ded Danza & Danza’s Best New Artist in 2011, and pro­moted to soloist at La Scala just last year.

Two months ago, after hav­ing played Quasimodo in ’s Notre-Dame de Paris for the after­noon mat­inée, he found him­self onstage again a couple of hours later to sub­sti­tute Vasiliev who was injured half an hour before cur­tain up.… [con­tinue reading]

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Ivan Vasiliev drives Milan wild in his La Scala début

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Mar 062013
 

BBdW xPCAAATp h 333x500 Ivan Vasiliev drives Milan wild in his La Scala début’s sched­uled début with the bal­let com­pany at ’s , and also in the role of Quasimodo in ’s bal­let , was delayed from Sat­urday due to a last minute injury. Yes­ter­day, how­ever, he went on and scored a suc­cess that a log­gionista described as one of the supreme bal­let even­ings in the last forty years at Milan’s opera house. She com­pared the pres­ence of Vasiliev with that of Nureyev: per­son­al­it­ies that draw atten­tion towards them, even when they are not dan­cing and the inten­ded focus of the cho­reo­graphy. Such artists are indeed rare.

Italian blog­ger and bal­letomane Marino Palles­chi commented,

At 24 years of age, is it pos­sible to have under­stood all of Roman­ti­cism?… [con­tinue reading]

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Ivan Vasiliev’s injury gives unknown Claudio Coviello a chance to shine

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Mar 022013
 

Claudio Coviello 500x375 Ivan Vasilievs injury gives unknown Claudio Coviello a chance to shineWhile it wasn’t exactly a case of ‘A Star is Born’, 21-year-old was cer­tainly given a golden oppor­tun­ity when Ivan Vasiliev couldn’t go on at last night.

Cov­i­ello had learnt the role of Quasimodo in Roland Petit’s Notre-Dame de Paris for just a single mat­inée per­form­ance. The even­ing spots were taken by Roberto Bolle, and Ivan Vasiliev. Except for Murru this was début time for everybody.

Vasiliev, made-up and ready to take on the role for the first time, as well as mak­ing his first appear­ance at Milan’s famed opera house, was limber­ing up on stage half an hour before the cur­tain. Land­ing after a jump he felt pain in his back, and after quick con­sulta­tions with spe­cial­ists, it was decided that he couldn’t go on.… [con­tinue reading]

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Ivan Vasiliev is forced to cancel début at the last minute

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Mar 012013
 

Claudio CorvielloCarla FracciPetra Conti 500x375 Ivan Vasiliev is forced to cancel début at the last minuteIvan Vasiliev, who has been suf­fer­ing from back pains for a few days, was forced to bow out of his début at Teatro alla Scala in Milan at the last minute. He was already in make-up for his role as the Hunch­back in ’s Notre-Dame de Paris, when half-an-hour before cur­tain up he real­ised he couldn’t go on.

21-year-old who had danced the role at the mat­inée per­form­ance stepped in. As the announce­ment was made in the theatre wails arrived from all parts of the house with cries of “No!”. It is to young Coviello’s credit that the cries turned to cheers by the end of his first solo. His Esmer­alda was rising young Italian star Petra Conti, who danced the role superbly, and her real life part­ner, , played her stage suitor in apt heroic fash­ion.… [con­tinue reading]

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Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev’s presence scuppers the Mikhailovsky’s New York plans

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Feb 102012
 

The  Theater scored a coup last fall by lur­ing Nat­alia Osipova and from the Bolshoi, and it was to have brought them to the United States this sum­mer for a run of shows at Lin­coln Cen­ter, said Arts Beat.

Now those plans have been scrapped because Amer­ican Bal­let Theater has exer­cised a no-compete clause involving the pair. Osipova and Vasiliev also dance with ABT – Osipova as a prin­cipal and Vasiliev as a guest.

The Mikhail­ovsky had plans to per­form at the David H. Koch Theater from June 19 to July 1, while ABT is sched­uled to per­form at the Met­ro­pol­itan Opera house around the same time.

The ABT’s artistic dir­ector, , said that the com­pany would not release Osipova and Vasiliev from a clause bar­ring its mem­bers from per­form­ing nearby.… [con­tinue reading]

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