The Washington National Opera pulls out of the Kennedy Center
The Washington National Opera said it will move out of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ending a partnership that began in 1971.
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Pressure mounts for San Francisco Ballet to cancel Trump Kennedy Center appearance
Pressure mounts on San Francisco Ballet to rethink its Washington performances as criticism swirls around President Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center.
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Navrin Turnbull is appointed Principal Dancer at Teatro alla Scala
After last night’s performance of Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, soloist Navrin Turnbull was promoted to the role of Principal Dancer in the company.
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Svetlana Zakharova’s shows in Florence are cancelled
Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence has cancelled Pas de deux for toes and fingers with Svetlana Zakharova and her violinist husband Vadim Repin.
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New York City Ballet’s 2026 Winter Season features the company’s 499th and 500th original works
New York City Ballet’s 2026 Winter Season runs from 20 January for six weeks at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.
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The Rossini Opera Festival 2026 is announced
The 47th edition of the Rossini Opera Festival will be held in Pesaro from 11 to 23 August 2026.
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Renato Zanella is the new director of the Ballet of the San Carlo Theatre in Naples
Renato Zanella, the Italian ballet dancer, choreographer and director, succeeds Clotilde Vayer as director of the Ballet of the San Carlo Theatre in Naples.
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Las Estrellas, the Flamenco of the Future – Sergio Bernal and Spanish friends in Rome
Las Estrellas – on 3 and 4 January in Rome – sees Sergio Bernal dance the rarely seen version of Ravel’s Boléro with choreography by Rafael Aguilar,
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In Memoriam 2025: artists who died this year… Singers, Dancers, Actors, Musicians, Writers, Directors
In memoriam 2025: a personal list remembering some of the artists who died in 2025.
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La Scala’s Federico Fresi returns in Sleeping Beauty after a two-year battle with cancer
La Scala Ballet Soloist Federico Fresi returned to dance on the opening night of the ballet season after a two‑year battle with a rare tumour.
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Royal Ballet and Opera Summer Season with Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta
Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta take centre stage at the Royal Opera House this summer with two individually curated programmes from 29 July until 9 August.
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Choreographer Hans van Manen has died at 93
Hans van Manen died yesterday, 17 December 2025, at the age of 93. He created more than 150 works during a 65-year career.
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Giorgio Armani at La Scala exhibition opens and the opening of La Scala’s 2025/2026 Ballet Season is dedicated to the designer
La Scala dedicates the opening of its ballet season to Giorgio Armani, and an exhibition of photos titled ‘Giorgio Armani at La Scala’ will be on display.
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Riccardo Chailly taken to hospital and the performance suspended at La Scala
After the opening of La Scala’s season with Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the second performance was suspended after Riccardo Chailly fell ill.
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Cecilia Bartoli announces opera and ballet for Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2026
‘Travel’ is the theme chosen by Artistic Director Cecilia Bartoli for the Salzburg Whitsun Festival 2026, which runs from 22 to 25 May.
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Review: Wayne McGregor’s Infinite Bodies and On the Other Earth in London
Somerset House is showing two Wayne McGregor exhibitions currently: Infinite Bodies and On the Other Earth, both running until 22 February.
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Gary Avis retires from The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet has announced the retirement of Gary Avis from his position as both Principal Character Artist and Senior Répétiteur.
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Sir Peter Wright celebrates his 99th birthday onstage with The Royal Ballet
On the opening night of The Nutcracker season, the Royal Ballet and Opera celebrated choreographer Sir Peter Wright’s 99th birthday.
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The Joffrey Ballet celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Christopher Wheeldon’s The Nutcracker
Ten years ago, the Joffrey Ballet commissioned Christopher Wheeldon – with a $4 million budget – to create a new Nutcracker. It returns for 27 performances.
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American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season 2026 at the Metropolitan Opera House
American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season 2026 will feature a new staging of Don Quixote, as well as the return of Onegin, Swan Lake, and Sylvia.
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English National Ballet at 75 performs for The Queen at Buckingham Palace
English National Ballet’s 75th anniversary continued with a performance for Queen Camilla at Buckingham Palace with Principal Sangeun Lee in The Dying Swan.
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Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov’s appearances in Verona are cancelled
Ildar Abdrazakov will not take part in Don Giovanni at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona in January 2026 as planned.
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BalletBoyz: Still Pointless At 25 – celebrating a quarter century on stage and screen
25 years after BalletBoyz presented its debut performance ‘Pointless’, the company is back with ‘Still Pointless’ at Sadler’s Wells.
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La Scala in the USA – a Gala in New York, an exhibition in Washington, and a screening in Los Angeles
After visits to Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Madrid and London, La Scala continues an international tour presenting its 2025/2026 season.
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Natalia Osipova returns to the Royal Ballet and Opera’s Linbury Theatre
Natalia Osipova returns with her Osipova/Linbury programme which contains work by Jo Strømgren, Akram Khan, Alexei Ratmansky and Frederick Ashton.
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Access Becomes Art: World Ballet Day 2025 – The Royal Ballet’s celebration of radical accessibility
Wednesday 12 November 2025 marks the return of World Ballet Day, a global celebration of dance, following a year’s hiatus.
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Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival – two cities, two nations, one heart
The Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival is a cross-border event where spectators can visit theatres that were, until recently, divided by barbed wire and a wall.
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The Royal Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée, live in cinemas 5 November
Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée returns to The Royal Ballet with Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé for the cinema relay on 5 November.
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Royal Ballet’s Anna Rose O’Sullivan to star in An American in Paris in Switzerland
Anna Rose O’Sullivan will make her musical theatre debut in Christopher Wheeldon’s production of An American in Paris at Grand Théâtre de Genève in December.
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The Force of Destiny – a documentary following preparations for opening night at La Scala
La Scala: The Force of Destiny follows the preparations for Verdi’s La Forza del Destino, which opened La Scala’s 2024 season on 7 December.
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