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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.
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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.
Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to China for the first time in nearly 20 years
Five Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers and Royal Ballet Sinfonia musicians open in Shenzhen, then take masterclasses to Chengdu, Shanghai and Beijing.
Review: Mamela Nyamza’s The Herd/Less – a noisy, vivid portrait of South Africa today
Mamela Nyamza’s The Herd/Less opens Dance Umbrella with stomping dancers on tin cans, a balanced sword and potent symbols of South Africa today.
Tatjana Gürbaca makes her Italian debut with a new Falstaff for the Opera di Roma
German director Tatjana Gürbaca sets Verdi’s Falstaff in a dreamlike Grand Hotel et de Milan – Verdi’s second home in the last years of his life – for Rome Opera.
