Graham Spicer talks with Royal Ballet dancers Ella Newton Severgnini and Francisco Serrano who dance the leading roles in Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate.
Georgina Butler sees The Royal Ballet in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland brought to brilliantly bonkers life with beautiful dancing and bold designs.
Scott C Morgan sees the Joffrey Ballet in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – thoughtful with impressive dance and production dazzle.
Royal Ballet principal dancer Melissa Hamilton talks about her unique path to the top of her profession, her production company, and her colleagues.
Lauren Cuthbertson Principal becomes Principal Guest Artist with The Royal Ballet after over two decades performing with the Company.
The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2024-2025 Cinema Season including two new opera productions: The Tales of Hoffmann and Die Walküre.
The Royal Ballet has announced that First Soloist Beatriz Stix-Brunell is to leave the Company after 11 years.
On 14 March 2020, The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson was dancing Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre… two days later a message arrived: The Royal Opera House was closing.
It’s relatively rare to see a female pas de deux in classical dance. In 2015, for her farewell tour, Sylvie Guillem asked Russell Maliphant to create a such a duet as she’d never danced with a female partner, so he created Here & After, which she danced all over the world with La Scala soloist Emanuela Montanari….
Frank Sinatra famously retired in 1970 only to make a comeback three years later, after which he continued to sing into the ’90s. Former Royal Ballet Principal Zenaida Yanowsky is making a faster comeback than Ol’ Blue Eyes. After 23 years with The Royal Ballet, Zenaida Yanowsky gave her final curtain call on the Covent…
Prague has come up trumps as the place where those planning a cultural city break can save money this autumn, according to the 2017 British Post Office Travel Money Cost of Culture Report. The Czech capital emerges as cheapest in a survey of opera, dance, music concert, gallery and museum prices in 16 cultural cities,…
This is an exciting time for The Royal Ballet, which has been on a roll for several years with an enthusiastic public for the sold-out performances at the Royal Opera House, the extremely popular live cinema relays, and the streamed events on the internet.
We know that the Royal Ballet’s dancers are exceptional, we’ve seen that the designs and lighting are magical, but the jury is still out on whether Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland satisfies as a theatrical piece. Clement Crisp’s final paragraph from his Financial Times review of the current run was, But for all the unflagging energies, physical and…
Luke Jennings, summing up the critics’ verdicts on the ‘McCartney Ballet’ in the Guardian‘s theatre blog, reflected on unsuccessful narrative ballets: Ballet’s gatekeepers tend to almost infinite credulity, and this, to a large extent, is why there are so many bad narrative ballets. Here in the UK there are dance directors who understand the nature…
Neil Norman for The Daily Express has no doubt: I predict that Christopher Wheeldon‘s triumphant production of Lewis Carroll‘s immortal classic will become the must-see ballet for children and adults alike. As a full-length narrative ballet – the first commissioned by the Royal Ballet in sixteen years – it is a cogent and immensely entertaining…
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