Sergei Polunin replaces David Hallberg in Ratmansky’s Sleeping Beauty at La Scala

Sergei Polunin will replace David Hallberg in the performances of Alexei Ratmasky’s The Sleeping Beauty at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala.

Polunin will partner Svetlana Zakharova for three performances on 26 September, 2 and 6 October, and will share the stage with Massimo Murru who will dance Carabosse for those performances. It was Polunin who stepped into Hallberg’s shoes for performances of Giselle last May, again at La Scala, when he scored a notable success with the Milanese public as a partner for Natalia Osipova.

While it is sad that the theatre will not be welcoming Hallberg back after his thrilling Swan Lake with Zakharova last year, La Scala have certainly come up trumps engaging once again one of the most exciting and fascinating talents in ballet today.

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.