Review: ‘In C’ with Sasha Waltz and Guests – discovering Lego set democracy
Graham Watts sees ‘In C’ with Sasha Waltz and Guests – an arresting and stamina-sapping performance.
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[Interview] Italian conductor Sesto Quatrini – “voices hold an ancestral power over me”
Sesto Quatrini is one of the most sought-after conductors after a long apprenticeship… recent acclaim at The Royal Opera House shows he’s making up for lost time.
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The end of an era – the last issue of Dancing Times is published
The last ever issue of Dancing Times magazine has been published, the September 2022 edition, after 112 years of uninterrupted work.
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Dancing Times magazine to close after 112 years
I write with great sadness that Dancing Times magazine will cease publication and that the September 2022 issue will be its last.
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La Scala cancels the opening of its ballet season for Covid
An outbreak of Covid at La Scala has led to the premiere of the new production of La Bayadère on 15 December being cancelled.
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Italian theatres return to 100% capacity
From today, 11 October, Italian theatres return to 100% capacity after months of struggling with an income from 50% houses.
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Opera at La Scala cancelled for Covid-19
La Scala has been forced to cancel tomorrow’s performance of L’italiana in Algeri after a company member tested positive for Covid-19.
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Italian dance impresario offers takeaway theatre shows
Takeaway theatre was an idea that came to Italian impresario Daniele Cipriani one morning on his way to his local bar in Rome to get a takeaway coffee.
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Vail Dance Festival returns for the 2021 Season
The Vail Dance Festival has announced plans to return in-person for its 32nd season running from 30 July 30 to 9 August 2021
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La Scala calls for vaccinations for its workers to reopen the theatre
The proposal comes after 45 employees were found positive during regular rapid Covid checks but only two tested positive after a molecular test.
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38 members of La Scala’s ballet company test positive for Covid
There has been an outbreak of Covid infections in the Corps de Ballet at La Scala, discovered because of the theatre’s regular testing programme.
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Russian Ballet: Quarantine, death, and the reality of performing during a pandemic
In Russia, ballet classics are being performed without modification, with social distancing rules applying only to the audience. The reality of the situation is that many dancers are being quarantined, as recent reports from St Petersburg, Moscow and Taipei confirm.
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Dancers leaving The Royal Ballet in 2020
Several Royal Ballet dancers have taken up voluntary redundancy as part of the Royal Opera House restructure in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Korea National Ballet told to reinstate quarantine-breaking dancer
Korean labour commission pronounces “unfair dismissal” of dancer who went on holiday instead of following quarantine instructions.
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The Royal Opera to put on fully-staged performances of Tosca
The Royal Opera’s Winter 2020/21 programme will open with 12 performances of Tosca. The revival of Jonathan Kent’s 2006 production will see Anna Netrebko in the title role, Yusif Eyvazov, Gerald Finley and Dan Ettinger conducting.
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La Scala welcomes back its stars – season opening 7 December
Despite coronavirus restrictions, La Scala will celebrate the opening of its season 2020-2021 – however long or short it may be – on 7 December, the feast of Saint Ambrose, Milan’s saint’s day.
The starry evening, A riveder le stelle (Seeing the Stars Again), will be broadcast live by Rai Cultura on Italian television’s Rai 1 at 5pm. Riccardo Chailly will conduct, and the director Davide Livermore will use actors and projections to create a context for the starry cast of 24 singers together with La Scala’s dancers.
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Plácido Domingo cancels Italian dates for health problems
Plácido Domingo has cancelled his Italian commitments in November due to a health problem that have arisen in the last few hours.
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Sergio Bernal on his new Dance Company “This is not just a show, it is the new Sergio”
How were dancer Sergio Bernal and choreographer Ricardo Cué to know that their plans to form a new company would coincide with a global pandemic. A company based in Madrid too, one of the world’s coronavirus hotspots.
The idea of a Sergio Bernal Dance Company began to form last year, and Bernal left his position as principal dancer with the Spanish National Ballet. In August during the summer festival at the Teatro Auditorio San Lorenzo de El Escorial in Madrid
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Theatres to close in Italy from tomorrow
The Prime Minister of Italy, Giuseppe Conte, has announced that from tomorrow until (at least) the 24 November all theatres and concert halls will close. This is due to the rapidly escalating numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.
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English National Ballet receives €3m grant from Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
English National Ballet has been awarded a grant of £3 million through the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund, announced today.
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With Milan under curfew, Jonas Kaufmann sings La Scala programme without pause
The curfew which was introduced in parts of Italy yesterday started at 11pm. While it is possible to return from a theatre after this time, it is necessary to carry a form to explain the reason you are out, and it was doubtful that many in the audience at La Scala would have been prepared on the first day – I wasn’t.
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Bavarian State Ballet in quarantine and Swan Lake cancelled
Yesterday the Bayerische Staatsoper announced multiple members of the ballet company testing positive for the coronavirus. Their announcement said,
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Jonas Kaufmann steps in at La Scala as tenor Francesco Meli tests positive for coronavirus
Tenor Francesco Meli has tested positive for coronavirus, though he is asymptomatic.
Tonight’s last concert performance of Aida at La Scala should have seen Meli as Radamès, instead the role will be sung by Jonas Kaufmann who is in town for a recital at the opera house on Thursday.
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[Review] In difficult times, the MilanOltre Contemporary Dance Festival completes a month of shows
It is a minor miracle that the MilanOltre contemporary dance festival managed to present its 34th edition this year. The organisers made many changes to the original programme – the company from China were not present, for example – but some excellent shows were on offer. Milan’s Teatro Elfo Puccini could only sell 40% of its capacity and, of course, the anti-covid paraphernalia that has become part of our lives was everywhere.
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UK government’s £250 million for arts organisations
A £250 million ‘bailout’ fund will save “1,385 theatres, galleries, performance groups, arts organisations, museums and local venues facing the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and ensure they have a sustainable future”, claims the UK government.
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The Royal Ballet is Back on Stage – Friday 9 October
The Royal Ballet is Back on Stage, returning for a live-streamed performance from the stage of Covent Garden on Friday 9 October at 7.30pm.
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Anna Netrebko in hospital recovering from Covid-19
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.
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La Scala announces its opening gala programme
La Scala has announced the programme, though not with full casting, of its Ballet Gala which marks the return of the company to the stage after the cancellation of the theatre’s programming in March.
The four-evening run begins on 23 September and stars the company’s étoiles Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle, guests Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli, as well as the company’s principal dancers.
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UK government to reopen theatres and stadiums with new world-beating scheme
UK government ministers are aiming to open theatres and sports stadiums by 1 November without social distancing.
According to The Sunday Times, the prime minister and Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, ordered officials to “move at extreme pace” to encourage crowds back into large venues
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La Scala would lose €50,000 a day if it reopened
La Scala would lose €50,000 a day if it reopened, complying with the social distancing guidelines imposed by the law passed on 17 May.
The opera house’s new intendant, Dominique Meyer, will present the administration’s calculations to the theatre’s board meeting on Thursday. As of now, Meyer estimates that the coronavirus lockdown has cost the theatre €20 million since it was closed on 25 February
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