Graham Spicer photographs the Youth Grand Prix annual event in Como with ‘Stars of Today’, certainly, and surely some ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ too.
Valery Gergiev’s planned concert at the Royal Palace of Caserta, near Naples, has been cancelled after international protests.
Yuri Grigorovich, the longtime choreographer at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, has died at 98. He was the artictic director of the theatre for more than three decades.
The Bolshoi Theatre’s newly raised ticket prices are causing some anger among its regular patrons.
Francesco Ventriglia – former dancer with the La Scala Ballet and choreographer – will take over as artistic director of Alberta Ballet in Canada in 2024.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree appointing Valery Gergiev as general director of the Bolshoi Theatre.
Russia’s two ‘rival’ theatres – The Mariinsky and The Bolshoi – will both be headed by Vladimir Putin’s favourite conductor, Valery Gergiev.
Can art, in this case dance, be a protection from politics? Do you become a collaborator if your work is helping to fill the coffers of the regime?
Leading Bolshoi dancers have been suspended from upcoming performances in Moscow after participating in a gala in Uzbekistan.
José Carlos Martínez’s production of Le Corsaire returns to Rome after a run cut short in 2020 due to the pandemic. Nuñez, Muntagirov, Tissi and Makhateli star.
Dominique Meyer, CEO of La Scala, talks about the theatre’s new streaming service, Russian artists and operas, and the new, younger audiences.
Contrary to the fake news or denying of events in Russian media recently, the Bolshoi Theatre’s official newsletter opens with resignation announcements.
Finally, with continually mutating casts, La Bayadère was back on stage at the end of January, replacing a planned triple bill of contemporary choreography.
Anna Netrebko has been in hospital in Moscow recovering from pneumonia for the last five days. While she was in hospital she tested positive to the coronavirus.
Now that she is starting to feel better, she decided to announce the news on Facebook and according to her manager, was starting to sing in hospital.
Russian media outlet RBC is reporting that some artists of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres in Moscow and St Petersburg have been quarantined after testing positive for coronavirus
In a plain-speaking interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Bolshoi Theatre’s General Director, Vladimir Urin, talked about the impending challenges for not only his theatre but theatres the world over.
“I very much hope that we will resume operations in the new season. That is the best-case scenario. Considering the way this situation is developing, I am almost sure that no performances will be possible until the end of June; perhaps not even until the end of July.”
And the worst-case scenario?
I don’t want to get into it, because it’s scary even to predict what would happen if we don’t open in September. It could go as far as the destruction of the theatre.
After Niv Novak’s slow-motion dance project ‘extension’ in 2017, comes ‘missed nuance’, a similar project with a different look. Dancers from international ballet companies wore designer garments to be captured by exquisite lighting, and state-of-the-art filmmaking technology, to produce a work-of-art that showcases the extreme athleticism of dance, but also its sublime beauty, all in…
70th Anniversary celebrations 2020 marks English National Ballet‘s 70th Anniversary with celebrations taking place throughout the 2019-2020 Season that give opportunities for the Company to say, ‘Thank You’ to its audiences, fans, friends and partners. The 70th Anniversary will be celebrated with three special Gala performances at the London Coliseum featuring extracts from a diverse…
Here are the first photos from the dress rehearsal of tonight’s opening cast at The Royal Opera House of Natalia Makarova‘s La Bayadère. Solor is danced by Vadim Muntagirov, Gamzatti by Natalia Osipova, and Marianela Nuñez is Nikiya. This is also the cast that will be dancing when the ballet is transmitted live in cinemas on 13 November…
I was born in Bulgaria. I’m a daughter of communism. I lived with communism behind the iron curtain. We had no idea of the voices in the West because it was forbidden to listen to radio from those countries. We were able to listen to radio from Russia and the Bolshoi Theatre. When I finished…
On 8 July, after the dress rehearsal of the Bolshoi Ballet‘s ambitious new ballet on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, the premiere was cancelled. Vladislav Lantratov was to have played Nureyev and, stunned by the announcement, wrote on Instagram, Нет слов…… понимание что ты только полюбил роль, начал вживаться в спектакль, всё начало складываться… и…
In an unprecedented move, it seems that ‘ousted’ English National Opera artistic director, John Berry, has been snapped up by the Bolshoi Theatre. It is extremely rare for non-Russians to hold administrative posts. Gleaning information from today’s Financial Times and The Times, it seems – though there has been no official announcement by the theatre…
20 November 2015 would have been Maya Plisetskaya‘s 90th birthday. The great Russian ballerina, who died on 2 May this year, will be remembered in a series of events in Moscow and St Petersburg. On 18 November her friend, and musical director of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev gave a concert at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Concert…
Makhar Vaziev will leave his position as head of the La Scala Ballet Company and take over at the Bolshoi Ballet on 18 March 2016. The Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Vladimir Urin, had already announced last July that the current director, Sergei Filin, would not have his contract renewed, which expires on 17 March….
The annual Benois de la danse prize-giving ceremony, one of the dance world’s most prestigious awards, was held at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow at the end of May. The prix is awarded not only to dancers and choreographers but also to composers and designers, reflecting Diaghilev’s noble concept that ballet is a fusion of all…
At Moscow’s Multimedia Art Museum an exhibition of photographs by Russian photographer Vladimir Fridkes featuring Svetlana Zakharova has opened and will run until 8 March. The exhibition – called Svetlana Zakharova: Still Frame – is part of the IX Moscow International Biennale Fashion and Style in Photography 2015. Fridkes, a photographer for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s’ Bazaar, first…
The (other) American at the Bolshoi, 16-year-old Julian MacKay, has been winning medals at the international ballet competitions at Sochi and Istanbul. Of course there are lots of ballet competitions and lots of medals, even if these particular competitions are important ones, but what is incredible is that he was representing the Bolshoi Academy at…
For more than twenty years the Benois Prize has been recognising talent with the most starry juries imaginable. The first year it consisted of Yury Grigorovich as its president, with Galina Ulanova (Russia), Carla Fracci (Italy), Kirsten Ralov (Denmark), Yvette Chauviré (France), Rudolf Nureyev (world citizen?) and John Neumeier (Germany). This year one of these, La Fracci, returned as part of an…
Dancing, like acting and singing, often runs in the family. There are countless dancers whose parents danced: Zenaida Yanowsky (Royal Ballet), Yury Yanowsky (Boston Ballet) and Nadia Yanowsky (Het Nationale Ballet) are the children of Russian ballet dancer Anatol Yanowsky and Spanish ballet dancer Carmen Robles. Ballet’s in their blood. What makes the Khan-MacKay family special is that…
The new head of the Bolshoi Theatre, Vladimir Urin, has outlined some of his intentions for the theatre’s future, after two months into the job. He talked about creating a group of house singers, about Filin, Ratmansky, Tsiskaridze, and about the Bolshoi‘s tarnished image with “Rossiyskaya Gazeta“. Urin has a vision for the future of…
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