Boss of St Petersberg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre is banned from foreign travel

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Feb 132013
 

Vladimir Kekhman Boss of St Petersbergs Mikhailovsky Theatre is banned from foreign travelBailiffs in have banned the dir­ector of the Theatre, , from leav­ing , said Lenta.

Busi­ness­man Kekh­man has debts exceed­ing 285 mil­lion rubles (7 mil­lion euros). The cur­rent restric­tion lasts until 12 August.

The Kekh­man Group JFC imports fruits, but accord­ing to vari­ous estim­ates, the company’s debts range from 15.8 to 38.5 bil­lion rubles. Kekh­man him­self was declared bank­rupt in a Lon­don court at the end of 2012.

The , which he has dir­ec­ted since 2007, will con­tinue with its programming.

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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 Rossini 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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“Who’s pulling the strings in Russia’s ballet revolution?” asks The Observer’s Luke Jennings

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Jan 012012
 

Sleeping Beauty Duato Whos pulling the strings in Russias ballet revolution? asks The Observers Luke JenningsThe bal­let world was sur­prised when Nacho Duato (ex-director of Spain’s Com­pañía Nacional de Danza) was headhunted by ’s Mikhail­ovsky Theatre, maybe enticed by the fat wal­let of gen­eral dir­ector Vladi­mir Kekh­man. He has now been at the company’s helm for a year. When star  jumped on board a couple of months later fans were per­plexed at him leav­ing the clas­sical com­pany par excel­lence to join the rel­at­ively unknown Mikhail­ovsky with a con­tem­por­ary cho­reo­grapher as its dir­ector. When towards the end of 2011 two of ballet’s hot­test new stars, Ivan Vasiliev and , left the Bolshoi com­pany to be part of Kekhman’s group, jaws hit the ground.

Luke Jenning’s in today’s Observer asks “Who’s pulling the strings in Russia’s bal­let revolu­tion?”.… [con­tinue reading]

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Mikhailovsky Theatre says Vasiliev and Osipova won’t be allowed to perform at the Bolshoi if it makes accusations against their theatre

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Nov 172011
 

The told report­ers today that Ivan Vasiliev and ’s decision to leave the com­pany and join the in was not help­ing their last minute pre­par­a­tions for Sunday’s broad­cast of . The bal­let will be trans­mit­ted in high-definition to cinemas around the world from the newly inaug­ur­ated theatre. Artistic dir­ector Sergei Filin said,

I am sorry that these events have come on the eve of our pro­duc­tion of ‘Sleep­ing Beauty’. This has hindered us a little from con­cen­trat­ing on our work.”

Osipova and Vasiliev announced earlier this week that they were join­ing the Mikhail­ovsky Theatre which, after the arrival of cho­reo­grapher Nacho Duato, is start­ing to modify its old-fashioned image, and move towards con­tem­por­ary bal­let. … [con­tinue reading]

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Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev leave Bolshoi to team up with Sarafanov and Duato at the Mikhailovsky Theatre

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Nov 142011
 

Vasiliev Osipova Romeo Juliet 2011 1 Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev leave Bolshoi to team up with Sarafanov and Duato at the Mikhailovsky Theatre and Ivan Vasiliev have decided to leave their home theatre and move to the Theatre in . Mari­in­sky star Leonid Sara­fanov made the move in Janu­ary 2011. Defec­tions have increased since took over at the company’s artistic helm.

Nat­alia Osipova

For me, a nat­ive Mus­cov­ite, the decision to move to the Mikhail­ovsky is a ser­i­ous one. The main reason why I’m leav­ing the is the lack of rep­er­toire: everything that I can dance there I have already danced. We want more cre­at­ive free­dom. Life has become too com­fort­able for me and I feel a great need for some­thing to change it, to elim­in­ate the con­veni­ence of repition.”

Ivan Vasiliev

We are evolving and we want to go for­ward.… [con­tinue reading]

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David Hallberg and Sergei Filin speak from Moscow

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Oct 072011
 

David Hallberg David Hallberg and Sergei Filin speak from MoscowThe new soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre bal­let com­pany, Amer­ican David Hall­berg, has star­ted rehears­als in Rus­sia. His début on the Bolshoi stage will be in Gis­elle on Novem­ber 4.

Sergei Filin, the head of the Bolshoi Bal­let, who invited the 29-year-old Amer­ican to Moscow, said in an inter­view for The Voice of Rus­sia:

I’d like to under­line his strong wish to fit in with the Bolshoi Theatre com­pany, to work in our tra­di­tions and imit­ate our style. This is just the reason why he decided to become a prin­cipal dan­cer at the Bolshoi.

He is facing great chal­lenges and has changed a lot in his life style after he took this decision. All this makes us treat David with great respect.… [con­tinue reading]

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Newsweek finds out what makes Anna Netrebko tick… and why she hates ‘toska’

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Sep 262011
 

 

Vladimir Putin Anna Netrebko 2008 Newsweek finds out what makes Anna Netrebko tick... and why she hates toskaThe papers are full of inter­views with Rus­sian sop­rano , espe­cially dur­ing this, the month of her 40th birth­day. They are not exactly car­bon cop­ies of each other, but very sim­ilar: plans to open a res­taur­ant, over­com­ing geo­graph­ical bound­ar­ies to meet up with hubby Erwin Schrott, and her adop­ted home, Austria.

Peter Pom­er­ant­sev, a Brit­ish tele­vi­sion pro­du­cer and non­fic­tion writer, inter­viewed Net­rebko in Salzburg, in Rus­sian. He gives some unique insights as to what makes the diva tick in an in-depth art­icle for New­s­week:

To the Rus­sian ear, Net­rebko is imme­di­ately pro­vin­cial, her speech full of the sing­song vow­els and inton­a­tions of the Krasnodar region of south­ern . It’s an accent that’s the butt of jokes in the Big City, and she was teased for it when she came up to study in St.… [con­tinue reading]

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