Christopher Wheeldon

#OurHouseToYourHouse: tonight’s Royal Opera House’s 2nd live concert and next week’s programme

20 June 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Tonight is the second of the Live from Covent Garden concerts at 7.30pm BST which will be broadcast via the Royal Opera House website from Covent Garden. These are the first live performances at the Royal Opera House since the building closed its doors to the public on 17 March.

Tonight’s concert includes a performance of Albert Schönberg’s reduction of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with tenor David Butt Philip, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and soloists of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet Vadim Muntagirov will perform Frederick Ashton’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits. The solo was initially created in 1978 for Anthony Dowell and is a showcase of balance and poise.

Week 5 of New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season

11 May 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

New York City Ballet has already arrived at the fifth week of programming of their six-week digital spring season.

On Tuesday 19 May at 8pm EDT, NYCB will release George Balanchine’s Diamonds, with Sara Mearns and Russell Janzen.

On Friday 22 May there will be two works by choreographer

New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season begins tomorrow, Tuesday 21 April

20 April 2020 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Tuesday 21 April would have been the opening night of the New York City Ballet’s now-cancelled 2020 Spring Season.

The NYCB digital season will offer six weeks of all-new content, six days a week, Monday until Saturday, until 30 May.

Les Étoiles Gala in Rome 2020 features the ballet world’s starriest names with some surprises

8 January 2020 by gramilano 4 Comments

The annual appointment with Les Étoiles in Rome is certainly a chance to enjoy a thrilling ballet gala, but the producer Daniele Cipriani also finds interesting twists to make each edition unique, so it never becomes a clichéd evening of ballet’s greatest hits. Such was the popularity last year, that the gala will spread over […]

Karen Kain to Retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada

25 October 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Karen Kain will retire as Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada in January 2021 and will be named Artistic Director Emeritus. She has been the company’s Artistic Director since 2005. Toronto Life once said, Under the reign of Karen Kain, The National Ballet of Canada has flowered into one of the most thrilling […]

Today English National Ballet dancers started rehearsing in their new home

13 August 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

Today, 13 August 2019, English National Ballet dancers arrived at the Company’s new building on London City Island, Canning Town, to begin rehearsals for their 70th Anniversary Season. The new building is home to seven full-sized rehearsal studios as well as the five-storey, state-of-the-art Production Studio which is fitted with a fly tower allowing for […]

Photo album: Gala Les Étoiles at Ravenna Festival with international ballet stars

26 July 2019 by gramilano 1 Comment

Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand (Paris Opera Ballet), Jacopo Tissi and Alena Kovaleva (Bolshoi Ballet), Bakhtiyar Adamzhan (Astana Opera, Kazakhstan), Tatiana Melnik (Hungarian National Ballet), Constantine Allen, Anna Tsygankova, Young Gyu Choi and Rebecca Storani (Dutch National Ballet), Sergio Bernal (Spanish National Ballet) Daniele Cipriani’s galas, Les Étoiles, have become staples of the ballet stars’ calendar with top names participating from Russia, […]

Les Étoiles dance gala closes the 2019 Ravenna Festival

15 July 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

The Ravenna Festival was founded in 1990 by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti, with a rich programme which includes symphonic and chamber music, opera, drama, dance, ballet, musical theatre, jazz, and ethnic music. It’s the perfect location for a summer festival as Ravenna is a stunningly beautiful city, with eight UNESCO World Heritage sites including its stunning […]

Photo Album: Wheeldon’s Cinderella – English National Ballet

27 June 2019 by gramilano Leave a Comment

This Cinderella combines intimacy and spectacle. In a space as vast as the Albert Hall it would be easy to lose focus, and for the action and visuals to wax muddy or arid. That rarely happens. The second act is especially expertly judged, rich in motion and emotion as the venue becomes a palatial ballroom […]

Photo Album: first look at tonight’s premiere of Medusa with The Royal Ballet

8 May 2019 by gramilano 4 Comments

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui new work, Medusa, opens at The Royal Ballet this evening, together with revivals of Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Crystal Pite’s ballet exploring the refugee crisis, Flight Pattern. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Medusa is his first work for The Royal Ballet. Medusa Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Music: Henry Purcell Electronic music: […]