Ballet Gala from La Scala: Evening of Great Choreographers

The latest gala from La Scala as part of its programming for online streaming videos, and recorded without an audience present in the theatre, is Serata Grandi Coreografi (Evening of Great Choreographers) which will be streamed via Teatro alla Scala's website, and its Facebook and YouTube pages on Saturday 15 May 2021 at 20.00 CET.

“Great choreographers of the past and present” (or rather, ‘great and good choreographers'), “is a mix of excerpts of well-known” (or rather, ‘well-known and lesser known') ballets for an evening full of “evocative and emotional involvement, to transport the audience into a dimension made of energy, colours, vitality but also of elevation, elegance and lyricism”. It's a full programme designed to show the company's dancers at their best.

Saturday 15 May 2021 – 20.00 CET

Evening of Great Choreographers

Principal Dancers, Soloists and artists of the Corps de Ballet of Teatro alla Scala

Don Quixote
from Act I
Choreography Rudolf Nureyev
Music Ludwig Minkus
Lights Marco Filibeck
A street dancer Vittoria Valerio
Espada Mattia Semperboni
and La Scala Ballet Company

Suite en blanc
New production
Extracts
Choreography Serge Lifar
Music Édouard Lalo
Lights Marco Filibeck
Thème Varié – Maria Celeste Losa, Timofej Andrijashenko, Nicola Del Freo
Mazurka – Claudio Coviello

Debussy pour sept danseurs
New production 
Pas de deux
Choreography Roland Petit
Choreographic supervision Luigi Bonino
Piano Fabio Ghidotti
Music Claude Debussy
Lights Marco Filibeck
Martina Arduino, Marco Agostino

Gopak
from Taras Bulba
New production
Choreography Rostislav Zakharov
Music Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy
Lights Marco Filibeck
Federico Fresi

Cantata
New production
Pas de deux
Choreography Mauro Bigonzetti
Music Group “Assurd”
Lights Carlo Cerri
Antonella Albano, Gioacchino Starace

Spring and fall
New production
Solo – Pas de deux
Choreography John Neumeier
revived by Manuel Legris
Music Antonín Dvořák
Lights Marco Filibeck
Agnese Di Clemente, Timofej Andrijashenko

L'histoire de Manon
Pas de deux – Act I, Scene II
Choreography Kenneth MacMillan
Music Jules Massenet
Lights Marco Filibeck
Manon Virna Toppi
Des Grieux Gabriele Corrado

Le combat des anges
Ballet by Roland Petit
from Proust, ou les intermittences du coeur pas de deux Morel et Saint Loup
Choreographic supervision Luigi Bonino
Music Gabriel Fauré
Lights Jean-Michel Désiré 
Saint Loup Claudio Coviello
Morel Marco Agostino

Paquita
New production
Divertissement
Choreography Marius Petipa
Music Ludwig Minkus
Lights Marco Filibeck
Nicoletta Manni, Nicola Del Freo, Maria Celeste Losa, Martina Arduino, Vittoria Valerio, Alessandra Vassallo
and La Scala Ballet Company

Gramilano( Editor )

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.