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Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years
1910 saw George V ascend to the throne, the trial and execution of Dr Crippen, the publication of E M Forster’s Howard’s End and the birth of Alice Marks, later Alicia Markova, the country’s first prima ballerina. 1910 was also the year that Phillip J S Richardson founded Dancing Times…
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NYC Ballet Digital Season Weeks Three and Four starts 13 October
As the first two weeks of New York City Ballet’s five-week digital season gets underway (from 29 September), the programming for the second period has been announced.
The Royal Opera House unveils its programme for live audiences this autumn
The Royal Opera House has announced “an exciting, wide-ranging new line-up” for its autumn programme. For the first time, performances will be accessible online for a global audience through live streams and for socially distanced audiences at Covent Garden. In a “global first” there will be a new opera in…
Akram Khan Company marks its 20th anniversary with The Silent Burn Project
The Akram Khan Company will celebrate its 20th anniversary on 4 October 2020. To mark the anniversary, the company will present a live-streamed programme of work celebrating its 20-year history. The Silent Burn Project will combine storytelling with personal experiences from the multiple voices and talents who have contributed to…
A magical Luciana Savignano dances Le Sacre
Luciana Savignano is an exotic creature from her unworldly physical movements to her unique, vaguely Asian features and her unquestionably hypnotic gaze. She is petite yet seems a giant onstage with her wide shoulders and expansive arms. Her famously expressive use of those arms is still intact, even as she…
The new Royal Opera House Pocket Photobook
The Royal Opera House is one of the world’s leading performing arts venues, so there is naturally much interest in the production of the performances. The new Pocket Photo Book from Thames & Hudson has 120 photographs by the landscape photographer Harry Cory Wright “that capture the charm and the…
The Royal Ballet is Back on Stage – Friday 9 October
The Royal Ballet is Back on Stage, returning for a live-streamed performance from the stage of Covent Garden on Friday 9 October at 7.30pm.
NYC Ballet Digital Season Weeks One and Two starts 29 September
On Tuesday 29 September at 8pm EDT, New York City Ballet will release an all-Balanchine programme of Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and “The Unanswered Question” from Ivesiana, with excerpts from Symphony in C, Liebeslieder Walzer, Episodes, and Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Online now – choreographer David Dawson’s 7 Portraits of Solitude
David Dawson has created seven short dance works – each between three and four minutes long – which have just been released online.
Anna Netrebko in hospital recovering from Covid-19
Anna Netrebko has been in hospital in Moscow recovering from pneumonia for the last five days. While she was in hospital she tested positive to the coronavirus
La Scala announces its opening gala programme
La Scala has announced the programme, though not with full casting, of its Ballet Gala which marks the return of the company to the stage after the cancellation of the theatre’s programming in March.
Six of London’s West End theatres to reopen
Nimax, which owns six of London’s West End theatres, has announced that it will start opening up all of them, beginning with the Apollo on 22 October. The announcement came on the six-month anniversary of the last performance in the…
Jacquelyn Wagner answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Jacquelyn Wagner answers the Gramilano Questionnaire reflecting on her life, career, passions, thoughts and opinions. When did you start singing? I always sang as a kid – operatically, even though I had no idea what an opera was – and…
UK government to reopen theatres and stadiums with new world-beating scheme
UK government ministers are aiming to open theatres and sports stadiums by 1 November without social distancing. According to The Sunday Times, the prime minister and Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, ordered officials to “move at extreme pace” to encourage…
Royal Opera House opens its doors for the first time in six months
After six months of closure, the Royal Opera House will be opening its doors to the public as part of Open House London weekend, giving visitors a taste of one of the world’s most famous theatres for free. In a…
[Interview] Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee on their new Rossini album
Tenors Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee celebrate the star singers of Rossini’s time in a new album, Amici e Rivali (Friends and Rivals). The disc features arias, duets, and trios from seven of the composer’s operas, written between 1815 and…
Nureyev on staging the “ballet of ballets” The Sleeping Beauty
Rudolf Nureyev first staged Sleeping Beauty at La Scala in Milan and on 22 September 1966 the curtain went up on La Bella addormentata nel bosco with sets and costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis. Nureyev was Prince Florimund and Aurora was…
Bolshoi and Mariinsky dancers in quarantine
Russian media outlet RBC is reporting that some artists of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres in Moscow and St Petersburg have been quarantined after testing positive for coronavirus
[Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci costumes
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani seems to be resuscitating dance in Italy almost singlehandedly. The first main dance event in the country was conceived by him and presented in mid-July to open the Nervi Festival. It featured Hugo Marchand, Iana Salenko,…