Choreographer Andrew McNicol talks about his McNicol Ballet Collective UK tour and his flourishing career. Transparent pyramids feature in the new Aida with Anna Netrebko for the 100th edition of Verona's Arena Opera Festival to be broadcast live worldwide. Continue Reading New production of Verdi's Aida opens 100th edition of Verona Arena Opera Festival The Royal Opera House has announced that Speranza Scappucci will become Principal Guest Conductor of The Royal Opera from September 2025. The 2023 National Dance Awards winners were announced today decided by votes from members of the UK's Critics' Circle. Continue Reading Winners of the UK 2023 National Dance Awards The Royal Ballet casting for main roles is announced for all performances from 30 September 2023 until 13 January 2024. Continue Reading Royal Ballet casting for autumn performances 2023 with role debuts Darell Moulton has died at 79. One of the UK's top piano experts and singing teachers, he taught Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes et al, and tuned for Ashkenazy. Continue Reading Darell Moulton – piano expert and singing teacher – has died at the age of 79 Rising, Lawrence Brownlee's new album, sees the tenor commission six of today's leading African American composers. Continue Reading Lawrence Brownlee's new album, Rising, is out tomorrow The Maggio Musicale Theatre in Florence to sell off vast archive to raise €8.5m by July, part of a huge debt left behind after Alexander Pereira resigned. Continue Reading The Florence opera house to sell its vast archive to avoid closure La Scala Ballet Season 2023-2024 opens with a new version of Coppélia by Alexei Ratmansky, as well as new contemporary programmes, and Balanchine and Robbins. The 2023-2024 Opera Season of the Teatro alla Scala will present 14 productions, 10 of which are new, with a predominantly Italian repertoire. After the resounding success of the Gala Carla Fracci now, two years after her death, comes the second edition of what will be an annual gala in her honour. Continue Reading The second edition of the Carla Fracci gala arrives at La Scala We share American ballerina Naomi Sorkin's eulogy for her best friend Lynn Seymour, read during the funeral reception held at Sorkin's Playground Theatre. Continue Reading Remembering Lynn Seymour, by her best friend The Paris Opera has announced that Gustavo Dudamel will resign as Music Director at the end of the 2022/2023 season for personal reasons. Continue Reading Gustavo Dudamel to leave the Paris Opera at end of 22/23 season Some people live for compartmentalisation – others blurred lines. Undoubtedly, Rachid Ouramdane and his extreme-sports acrobats are giving us the latter. The Royal Opera House has announced its next Cinema Season with 13 productions, eight of which will be broadcast to screens around the world. Continue Reading Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 opera and ballet Cinema Season I will devolve my fee for the gala to initiatives in support of all those young students who want to continue studying, despite this tragedy – Sergio Bernal Continue Reading Sergio Bernal donates his gala fee to Italian flood victims La Scala performs William Forsythe's Blake Works V with a premiere of ‘Prologue', a version of ‘The Barre Project', and ‘Blake Works I'. In Milan's Duomo on 22 May, Riccardo Frizza will conduct Verdi's Requiem, exactly 150 years after Manzoni's death, and 151 years after Verdi conducted the premiere. Jann Parry enjoys Northern Ballet's The Great Gatsby, but advises to consult the scenario beforehand – “the plot unravels quickly and bewilderingly”. This June, The Royal Ballet presents a programme of one-act ballets featuring works by Kenneth MacMillan, Wayne McGregor, and Christopher Wheeldon. 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Continue Reading The bizarre story of Italian opera house musical chairs – Meyer, Fuortes, Lissner An album of photos taken during a stage rehearsal of William Forsythe's Blake Works V – at La Scala from 10 May. Continue Reading [Photo Album] First peek at William Forsythe's ‘Blake Works V' Choreographer Emanuela Tagliavia bravely puts awakening sexuality and same-sex partnering into ‘Balthus Variations' with La Scala's ballet school's students. Continue Reading [Review] Balthus Variations and other delights in La Scala's Ballet School showLatest Post
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La Scala Ballet Season 2023-2024
La Scala Opera Season 2023-2024
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Remembering Lynn Seymour, by her best friend
Gustavo Dudamel to leave the Paris Opera at end of 22/23 season
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Royal Opera House announces 2023-2024 opera and ballet Cinema Season
Sergio Bernal donates his gala fee to Italian flood victims
[Review] Blake Works V – William Forsythe's sensational evening of dance at La Scala
[Interview] Riccardo Frizza conducts the Verdi Requiem on the 150th anniversary of Manzoni's death
[Review] The Great Gatsby – zestful performances in a delectable setting but a convoluted plot
Royal Ballet's three one-act ballets – Wayne McGregor (world premiere) | Wheeldon | MacMillan
[Review] Trajal Harrell's Porca Miseria – profound or codswallop, you've gotta love art
[Interview] Conductor Henrik Nánási – immersing himself in the music
[Photo Album] Photos from the first night of William Forsythe's ‘Blake Works V'
[Review] Kontemporary Korea – original, focused, skilled work, but it didn't rock my world
The bizarre story of Italian opera house musical chairs – Meyer, Fuortes, Lissner
[Photo Album] First peek at William Forsythe's ‘Blake Works V'
[Review] Balthus Variations and other delights in La Scala's Ballet School show
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