Today – 20 August 2026 – would have been Carla Fracci’s 90th birthday. To mark the occasion, we look back at one of the most audacious projects of her career.
For dancers over 40, retirement is close. A new company, WINNDance, is challenging that assumption.
Twenty years after her death, Anna Moffo returns – in photographs – to the house where her Italian life was rooted.
Ten-year-old Nathan is leaving Milan for Paris this September, joining the Opéra’s Dance School after beating out 50 hopefuls for a spot.
A hillside “archaeological site” with ancient Neolithic and Greco-Roman artefacts, impressive enough to charge a €40 entrance fee. Except it wasn’t ancient at all.
The talented, well-respected, and much-loved photographer Elliott Franks has died at his London home at age 62.
Audiences at the Bolshoi Theatre could find themselves without 11 of its well-known productions after a dispute over the rights to Yuri Grigorovich’s choreographic legacy.
As the 2026 Rossini Opera Festival opened at Pesaro, the Festival announced its plans for 2027.
Leone Magiera, the pianist and conductor, now 92, reflects on life with his dearest friend, Luciano Pavarotti.
La Scala ballerinas Caterina Bianchi and Letizia Masini appear in Gemina Lux, a new work by Emanuela Tagliavia for the Fisiko Festival.
Graham Spicer photographs the Youth Grand Prix annual event in Como with ‘Stars of Today’, certainly, and surely some ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ too.
Mikhail Baryshnikov, one year after the death of his friend and collaborator, the director Robert Wilson, is working on completing their last project.
Graham Spicer talks with Elena Moșuc after her latest debut in the notoriously difficult role of Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco.
Just outside Modena, near where Luciano Pavarotti was born, is the Casa Museo Luciano Pavarotti, the house he built and opened to the public in 2015.
After more than 30 years at the helm of Tulsa Ballet, Artistic Director Marcello Angelini will retire at the end of the 2026-2027 Season.
Italian dancer Roberto Bolle is one of a group in the Live Theatre/Live Performance category selected to receive stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
From tonight at Circus Maximus – ancient Rome’s chariot-racing stadium – audiences of 6,000 can see John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet.
Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Steven McRae and Principal Guest Concert Master Vasko Vassilev unite for a showcase of exceptional music and dance.
American Ballet Theatre’s two seasons at the David H. Koch Theater in 2026-2027 were announced by Artistic Director Susan Jaffe.
American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Susan Jaffe announced that SunMi Park has been promoted to the rank of Principal Dancer, from 1 September 2026.
American Ballet Theatre Artistic Director Susan Jaffe has announced a new Principal Dancer and six new Soloists.
Graham Spicer talks to Jacopo Tissi on life after the Bolshoi and being a Principal Dancer with the Dutch National Ballet.
The Garda Festival runs from 24 July until 1 August on or near the shores of the great Italian lake. All events are free.
The 69th record-breaking edition of the Spoleto Festival, the first under the leadership of the new Artistic Director Daniele Cipriani, draws to a close this evening.
In The Royal Ballet School’s 100th graduating class, this year consisting of 30 students, all have secured contracts with companies as they start their professional journeys.
Tonight is the opening of the Verdensballetten (World Ballet) in the garden of the Royal Garden Society in Copenhagen, and it is on tour until 30 August.
Today, a garden in Milan was named after a costume maker, a woman known affectionately as the “Queen of the tutu” – Eufemia Brancato.
American Ballet Theatre dancer Jake Roxander has been promoted to Principal Dancer as of 1 September 2026.
Graham Spicer talked with choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot – León and Lightfoot – after the opening night of their new double bill for The Royal Ballet.
First Soloist Valentino Zucchetti is to leave The Royal Ballet after 16 years to pursue his choreographic and producing career.
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