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Review: Ballet Black at 25 – ‘…all towards hope’ and ‘Ingoma’
Ballet Black at 25: Hope Boykin’s …all towards hope has sublime moments, but Mthuthuzeli November’s Ingoma is the jewel of the silver anniversary bill.
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Emanuela Montanari and Antonino Sutera dance Susanna Beltrami’s Il danno in Milan
Former La Scala principals Emanuela Montanari and Antonino Sutera dance Susanna Beltrami’s Il danno, after Josephine Hart’s Damage, in Milan on 23–24 October.
Review: Don Giovanni returns to Lyric Opera of Chicago with a timely 1920s staging
Don Giovanni at Lyric Opera of Chicago: a cocaine-fuelled 1920s staging ends with the lights up and a call to question complicity in abuse.
Interview: Cesar Corrales – The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer is enjoying the moment
Cesar Corrales on a season of firsts, from Des Grieux in Manon to Dances at a Gathering, and why he treats every season as defining.
Rome Opera premieres La vita nuda, Matteo D’Amico’s opera from two Pirandello plays
Rome Opera’s La vita nuda fuses two Pirandello plays in a station halted by a blackout, with Andrea Concetti and Omar Montanari, from 20 October.
Review: Manon, with The Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé – as bitingly savage as ever
Manon opens the Royal Ballet season: Hayward deepens her heroine and Sambé dances gloriously, but slow tempi in the pit hold back the passion.
Michele Mariotti conducts both versions of Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle in Rome
Mariotti conducts Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle twice in Rome with Baráth, Vistoli, Korchak and Pertusi – the orchestral version first, then the original.
