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Tatjana Gürbaca makes her Italian debut with a new Falstaff for the Opera di Roma
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Schwarzman Centre unveils 2027 season with Shankar, McGregor and Yo-Yo Ma
Cecilia Bartoli receives Grand Officer honour from Italian President in Monaco
Review: Carlo Vistoli in Amori e danze – an all-Handel evening at Pavia’s Teatro Fraschini
Feifan Jiang wins the Cantelli conducting competition – and five more prizes besides

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Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to China for the first time in nearly 20 years
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Review: TAM Ballet’s Don Quixote – Anna Tsygankova and Giorgi Potskhishvili shine in Milan
ABT’s Yoon Jung Seo among the honoured artists at the 16th Clive Barnes Awards
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Today's press conference in the Sala della Musica M. Tremaglia of the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo
An unpublished ‘Dixit’ by Donizetti has been discovered in the library of a seminary in Bergamo
Luca Pisaroni as Leporello in Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne photo by Bill Cooper
In conversation with Luca Pisaroni: back to Milan with his La Scala debut
Lilly Jorstad Esito collegi docenti Academia di Canto 2014 2015‏ e1438960870598
Lilly Jørstad – La Scala’s Rosina – kicked out after last performance
Luisa Mandelli with Maria Callas in La Traviata 1955
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Natalie Dessay
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Marco Voleri
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Sergei Polunin in Paradiso, photo by Silvia Lelli
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Julien Favreau is mesmerising in Boléro at La Scala
Teatro Colon Bogota
Dancers from the Royal Ballet and ENB reopen the glorious Teatro Colón in Bogotá
Edward Watson and Ivan Putrov in Matthew Bournes Swan Lake
Men in Motion’s magic under the Tuscan sky
Alessandra Ferri photo by ASH photography
[Interview] Alessandra Ferri, part one: “The voice of the soul is immense”
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Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Carla Fracci.

Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.

He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.

Since 2022, Gramilano has been pleased to welcome guest authors: Paul Arrowsmith, Donatella Bertozzi, Georgina Butler, Christophe Farquet, Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, Jonathan Gray, Marina Harss, Ann Haskins, Lily Hyde, Marta Mele,
Scott C. Morgan, Matthew Paluch, Jann Parry, Lucía Piquero, Graham Watts, Deborah Weiss, and Lydia Wharf.

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