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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.
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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.
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.
ENO’s Einstein on the Beach and Rambert’s It’s A Sin lead Factory International’s 2027 season
Factory International’s 2027 season also brings Gregory Maqoma’s dance opera Genesis and Florentina Holzinger’s A Year Without Summer to Manchester.
Review: A Centenary Celebration with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School
A Centenary Celebration marks 100 years of the Royal Ballet School with heritage ballets, world premieres and a finale that floods the stage with dancers.
