Q&AWhen did you start singing? I had my first solo in the 5th grade Christmas Concert, but I became more serious in high school.Why did you start singing? Well, it seemed to fit with my first love — dance. I also enjoyed participating in music in any way I could, and I felt I was good at it.Which … Continue reading
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Photo Album 2: Le Corsaire opens tonight at La Scala – here are some preview photos of this lavish new production
Italian designer Luisa Spinatelli has created scenes and designed 180 costumes for a new production of Le Corsaire at La Scala. [see PHOTO ALBUM 1 - LE CORSAIRE]Anne-Marie Holmes first staged the ballet for Boston in 1997, and it marked the first time that a non-Russian company had danced the piece. A … Continue reading
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Photo album: A first look at La Scala’s new production of Le Corsaire (opens 20 April)
Italian designer Luisa Spinatelli has created scenes and designed 180 costumes for a new production of Le Corsaire at La Scala.Anna-Marie Holmes, who has already staged the ballet at the American Ballet Theatre … Continue reading
A dancer’s battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder
I think dance has saved my life. A lot of people are like, ‘Oh it must have been extra hard to have OCD and dance,’ when for me, dance was an escape.Steven Loch, a soloist with Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet, … Continue reading
Music Critics Association of North America award for Best New Opera goes to The Wake World by David Hertzberg
The Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) has announced that its second annual award for Best New Opera has been given to composer David Hertzberg for The Wake World.Hertzberg said,The Wake … Continue reading
Daniela Barcellona collects Olivier Awards for Semiramide
Daniela Barcellona and Joyce DiDonato have won Olivier Awards for Best Achievement in Opera for their roles in The Royal Opera House's production of Semiramide.Semiramide was also the winner of Best New Opera … Continue reading
Interview with ENB Principal Isaac Hernandez : I’m dreaming of seeing real change
It was a strange feeling that all the work a person can do in their lifetime, seven days a week of dedicating your life, goes out the window and is not even mentioned, is put aside for a headline. It was shocking. … Continue reading
Julien Favreau is mesmerising in Boléro at La Scala
And so Julien Favreau shows how it should be done.I find myself in Rome writing this review, and so the phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day” comes to mind. Favreau has been dancing Maurice Béjart’s Boléro since … Continue reading
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Photo Album: preview of tonight’s opening cast of Manon with Francesca Hayward and Federico Bonelli
Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is revived at Covent Garden as part of continuing celebrations of MacMillan’s profound impact on British ballet, to … Continue reading
Bolle’s Boléro: Roberto Bolle at La Scala performs Béjart’s intoxicating rite for the first time
I certainly wasn’t the only one to have doubts when Roberto Bolle announced his intention to climb onto Béjart’s red table. Facebook was abuzz … Continue reading
Julien Favreau answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&AWhen did you start dancing? When I was about 7, in a very small ballet school in France where we were only 4 boys!Why did you start … Continue reading
Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers Delia Mathews and Brandon Lawrence on dancing The Sleeping Beauty
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s run of The Sleeping Beauty performances is coming to end, with the final performances being given this week at … Continue reading
Photo Album: first look at The Royal Ballet’s celebration of Leonard Bernstein
The curtain has just gone down on a triple bill that contains two world premieres. Here is a first look at the Bernstein Centenary … Continue reading
Marcelo Gomes to guest in Giselle with the Mariinsky Ballet
Marcelo Gomes will be guesting with the Mariinsky Ballet as Albrecht, with Yekaterina Osmolkina as Giselle.After his surprise departure from … Continue reading
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Photo Album: First look at La Scala’s new Don Pasquale
Davide Livermore's new production of Don Pasquale for Teatro alla Scala opens tomorrow night, 3 April, and the premiere will be live broadcast on … Continue reading
Diana Damrau sings Wolf and Strauss at La Scala: with pursed lips and a flick of the wrist
Diana Damrau’s warm reception at La Scala was appropriate for a singer who has given so much pleasure to Milanese audiences, beginning with her … Continue reading
Lucas Meachem answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&AWhen did you start singing? There’s not a time I don’t remember singing in some capacity.Why did you start singing? I have a need to … Continue reading
Soprano Frances Alda: arguing with Toscanini, a debut at La Scala, Chaliapin’s hairy chest, and Caruso at the Met
Frances Alda (1879 – 1952) was a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised operatic soprano. She was one of the world's most celebrated singers during … Continue reading
Interview with Anna Netrebko on her son, his autism and his abandonment by his father Erwin Schrott
Anna Netrebko, soon after her performances of Andrea Chénier at La Scala, talked about her son, his autism and the abandonment by his father, … Continue reading
Gioachino Rossini at La Scala – a new exhibition, 150 years after the composer’s death
Gioachino Rossini died in France on 13 November 1868. For the 150th Anniversary of the composer’s death director and designer Pier Luigi Pizzi … Continue reading