Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy

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May 072013
 

Teatro Antico Taormina 500x375 Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in ItalyIn addi­tion to the & Friends dates in New York and Shang­hai, a new group of friends will join him for his Italian leg of the tour.

Roberto Bolle & Friends from the Amer­ican Bal­let Theatre will be at the Politeama Ros­setti in Trieste on 19 July; at ’s Cara­calla Baths on 21–22 July; at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa on 24 July, and fin­ish­ing at Sicily’s glor­i­ous Teatro Antico in Taorm­ina on 26 July.

The pro­gramme will reflect ABT’s rep­er­toire and among oth­ers will fea­ture one of the company’s senior prin­cipal dan­cers Julie Kent, and , one its young­est, who was pro­moted to prin­cipal just last year.

Photo: Teatro Antico, Taormina

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The Italian Greta Garbo is gone: Rossella Falk dies at 86

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May 052013
 

Rossella Falk 8 and a half The Italian Greta Garbo is gone: Rossella Falk dies at 86

Rome, 10 Novem­ber 1926 – Rome, 5 May 2013

One of the greatest Italian stage act­resses has died in Rome at the age of 86.

Ros­sella Falk was a giant among Italian act­resses, with a slightly arrog­ant air and regal poise which set her apart from many of her more earthy col­leagues. The label “the Italian Greta Garbo” was well chosen, and even her hair­style recalled that of the film star, though Falk’s career, unlike Garbo’s, con­tin­ued well into her eighties. Her 2006 bio­graphy was called The Last Diva, and a diva she was. She fre­quen­ted the likes of  , Noël Cow­ard, Dirk Bog­arde, Peter O’Toole, and had a twenty-year friend­ship with , whom she later played in ’s .… [con­tinue reading]

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Police helicopters circle overhead as Cecilia Bartoli returns to Rome

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Apr 092013
 

P4080082 433x500 Police helicopters circle overhead as Cecilia Bartoli returns to RomeBar­toli fans battled their way to Renzo Piano’s glor­i­ous Aud­it­or­ium Parco della Musica through secur­ity cor­dons, with police heli­copters circ­ling over­head. These pre­cau­tions were not for the Roman diva’s pres­ence, but for the foot­ball ‘derby’ at the Olympic Sta­dium next door where the two local teams, Lazio and Roma, were playing.

The atmo­sphere in Sala Santa Cecilia was very dif­fer­ent to that among the tifosi who were mer­rily stabbing each other a few hun­dred metres away. A crowd of local fans, with many French, Ger­man and Aus­trian Ceci-lovers too, along with Italian celebs (a Bar­toli con­cert is a rare event in !), and Cecilia’s mum and teacher, Sil­vana Bazzoni, with her brood of friends, gave the large aud­it­or­ium, with its 2,700 seats, a friendly, fam­ily atmo­sphere.… [con­tinue reading]

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Boris Bilinsky: costume and set designer for ballet, opera and film and legendary graphic artist

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Dec 062012
 

Bilinsky Casanova Boris Bilinsky: costume and set designer for ballet, opera and film and legendary graphic artistBoris Bil­in­sky was born in Odessa in 1900, but left Rus­sia in 1920, escap­ing from the after­math of the Revolu­tion. He settled in Ber­lin where he was still able to col­lab­or­ate with Rus­sian theatres, but in 1923 he moved to Paris and worked with the Stu­dio Albatros, a pro­duc­tion com­pany in Montreuil. Albatros had only been set up in 1922, but was soon to pro­duce some of the most import­ant mas­ter­pieces of early cinema, includ­ing Abel Gance’s mam­moth Napoléon in 1927.

Dur­ing this period Bil­in­sky designed numer­ous cos­tumes for French cinema such as Jean Epstein’s Le lion de Mogols and a series of exquis­ite designs for Alex­an­der Volkoff’s film Cas­anova.

For ten years Bil­in­sky pro­duced designs for two or three films a year.… [con­tinue reading]

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A new ballet company for Italy? Rome’s mayor announces a project for the Italian National Ballet

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Sep 062012
 

Fracci ATM 2 A new ballet company for Italy? Romes mayor announces a project for the Italian National Ballet The Mayor of , , has announced,

We are work­ing on a pro­ject with to cre­ate a National Bal­let Com­pany which can bring the Rome exper­i­ence to a national level.

The ‘Rome exper­i­ence’ was the period of ten years that Fracci spent at the helm of the capital’s bal­let company.

Ale­manno, who is by default the pres­id­ent of the board of dir­ect­ors of the Fondazione del Teatro dell’Opera, the gov­ern­ing body of the Rome Opera and Bal­let com­pan­ies, was fam­ously har­angued by Fracci in a pub­lic out­burst by the étoile in the stalls of the Rome Opera Theatre. That was two years ago dur­ing a meet­ing of  the vari­ous trade uni­ons oppos­ing eco­nomic reforms. Nerves were raw, and Fracci prod­ded the Mayor in the chest accus­ing him of refus­ing her requests for a meet­ing dur­ing the pre­vi­ous two years.… [con­tinue reading]

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The dance drain: who will save ballet in Italy?

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Jul 102012
 

Itali­ans are great dan­cers, but they don’t get much oppor­tun­ity to demon­strate that in their homeland.

The his­tory of bal­let is adorned with Italian tal­ent:  was the first Swan­hilda in Cop­pélia;  three dazzling stars, Car­lotta Grisi, Fanny Cer­rito, and Marie Tagli­oni (also the first Sylphide) were cel­eb­rated by Per­rot in his Pas de Quattre; Pier­ina Leg­nani was named Prima Baller­ina Assol­uta by Petipa at the Mari­in­sky and was the first baller­ina to per­form 32 fou­ettés; Petipa cre­ated La Esmer­alda pas de six for Vir­ginia Zuc­chi,  and so on.

Italian ballerinas The dance drain: who will save ballet in Italy?

Although they didn’t come as thick and fast in the 20th cen­tury, Italia’s liv­ing legend Carla Fracci cer­tainly made her mark inter­na­tion­ally, as did Elisa­betta Ter­ra­bust and Lili­ana Cosi, and London’s Royal Bal­let is surely grate­ful for the pres­ence of Aless­andra Ferri, Vivi­ana Dur­ante and Mara Galeazzi.… [con­tinue reading]

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Special events banned near Rome tourist icons until 2012

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Oct 042011
 

fontana del moro Special events banned near Rome tourist icons until 2012Spe­cial events will be banned at ’s iconic tour­ist attrac­tions Piazza Navona and the Trevi Foun­tain until the end of the year because of a rash of recent attacks by vandals.

Rome Mayor released a state­ment on Tues­day say­ing the decision was taken “to pro­tect the pub­lic assets of the city of Rome and in par­tic­u­lar the artistic and monu­mental her­it­age of the his­toric centre as recog­nised by ’s world her­it­age status”. The decision was taken after recent attacks on the Foun­tain of the Moor in Piazza Navona and the Trevi Fountain.

via ANSA.it… [con­tinue reading]

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