Les Étoiles 2023 – the cast of the annual Rome dance gala is announced
Les Étoiles international gala of dance returns to Rome on 28 and 29 January 2023. With dancers from The Royal Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Dutch National, and more.
Daniele Cipriani
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Giulietta – a new ballet with Eleonora Abbagnato, her daughter, and an imaginary friend
A modern-day Juliet, still a child, imagines herself as an adult: I talk to the choreographer of Giulietta, a new ballet + rehearsal photos.
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Étoile Eleonora Abbagnato to dance with her 10-year-old daughter
Eleonora Abbagnato, former étoile with the Paris Opera Ballet and director of the Rome Opera Ballet, will tour with her young daughter.
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Free stream of Les Étoiles ballet gala in Rome from Friday 29 April
A free streaming of the Les Étoiles gala from Rome, filmed earlier this year, will be available from tomorrow, 29 April, on ITsART.
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Touché! Les Étoiles gala features a homosexual pas de deux
Interview with the choreographer Christopher Rudd about his gay pas de deux for two men Touché, created for American Ballet Theatre and now to be seen in Rome.
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Les Étoiles ballet gala in Rome at the end of January, now booking
After the doom and gloom with the many announcements of theatre events being cancelled or postponed, here is some good news from Les Étoiles in Rome.
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Three Italian dancers die in a car accident in Saudi Arabia
Three Italian dancers who were on tour in Saudi Arabia died in the desert outside Riyadh after their car went off the road.
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Choreographer Micha van Hoecke has died at 77
Choreographer and director Micha van Hoecke has died after a long illness, at 77. He was a leading figure in Italian and European dance from the early 1960s.
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A captivating dance tribute to Stravinsky at Italy’s Nervi Festival
A captivating programme of dance dedicated to Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death launched the dance season at this year’s Nervi Music Ballet Festival.
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Davide Dato stars in the Italian premiere of Uwe Scholz’s The Rite of Spring
Uwe Scholz’s Rite of Spring will be danced by Davide Dato, principal at Vienna State Ballet, and staged by the work’s original dancer Giovanni di Palma.
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A new John Neumeier work brings two Italian dancers back home
Jacopo Bellussi and Alessandro Frola perform Neumeier’s Peter and Igor in Stravinsky’s Love, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death.
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Stravinsky celebrated in music and dance at Nervi, Ravenna and Rome festivals
Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2021 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death in a programme of music and dance.
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Les Étoiles online: Nuñez, Muntagirov, Salenko, Kim, Shklyarov et al
Daniele Cipriani Entertainment is on the new arts digital platform ITsART.tv with The Best of Les Étoiles starring Nuñez, Muntagirov et al
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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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Ballet treats to view online during the holidays
Dance programming for the festive period from companies all over the world are many: free, subscription and pay-per-view. Here are some that have caught my eye.
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All male dance gala of ‘Duets and Solos’ streaming free from Modena
Free streaming of the all-male dance gala Duets and Solos from the Luciano Pavarotti Municipal Theatre in Modena on 6 December at 8pm
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Eleonora Abbagnato shines in Four Seasons, created for strange times
Eleonora Abbagnato and Cuban dancer Javier Rojas Hernandez star in a reworked version of Giuliano Peparini’s 4 stagioni (Four Seasons), a Covid-safe dance work originally created for Rome Opera Ballet.
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[Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci costumes
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani seems to be resuscitating dance in Italy almost singlehandedly. The first main dance event in the country was conceived by him and presented in mid-July to open the Nervi Festival. It featured Hugo Marchand, Iana Salenko, Sergio Bernal and many other dancers with an international career, who flew into Genoa to dance for the first time after the four-month imposed break. Cipriani is presenting various socially-distanced galas during July and August, but he is also responsible for a coproduction between the Nervi Festival – organised by Genova’s Teatro Carlo Felice – and the Spoleto Festival, with live music from a (socially-distanced) orchestra playing Beethoven’s only ballet score, The Creatures of Prometheus.
The 1801 work was a collaboration with Italian dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò. The original scenario of the ballet no longer exists, but a theatre programme for the Viennese premiere gives an idea of the structure:
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Duets and solos in the open-air – live dance returns to Italy
The first live dance event in Italy took place at the Nervi International Festival of Ballet and Music, opening the two-week festival in Nervi’s coastal park with a backdrop to the stage of palm trees and sea.
The idea for the evening of dance, called Duets and Solos, came from Daniele Cipriani, the Italian dance impresario, who, while watching couples sitting close together while eating in restaurants as Rome reopened after the lockdown, thought that the same would be possible for dancers – households can remain together. Silvia Azzoni and Alexander Ryabko from Hamburg Ballet, and Iana Salenko and Marian Walter from Berlin, are offstage couples and were therefore allowed to dance together. Salenko and Walter had their two children with them so, in theory, a pas de quatre would have been permitted. They were joined by Hugo Marchand from the Paris Opéra Ballet, Matteo Miccini from Stuttgart, and the Spanish dancer Sergio Bernal.
Music was provided by the brilliant 26-year-old Italian pianist
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World premiere of The Creatures of Prometheus/The Creatures of Capucci at the Spoleto Festival in Italy
Beethoven and haute couture – not the first pairing that comes to mind.
Le Creature di Prometeo/Le creature di Capucci (The Creatures of Prometheus/The Creatures of Capucci) celebrates this surprising coupling. Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the Festival of Two Worlds are co-producers of this semi-staged concert which receives its world premiere at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto on 28 August 2020 with a preview on 1 August at the Nervi International Festival of Music and Ballet near Genoa.
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Italy’s first post-lockdown dance event is announced
After theatres were forced to close their doors three months ago, in Italy there is some tentative nudging to open them creating a chink of hope.
As with the Arena in Verona, Pesaro and other summer Festivals that are putting on concerts or semi-staged presentations, Daniele Cipriani’s dance gala for the Ravenna Festival is a sign that art and artists are still with us.
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Dancing Times, May Edition with the Danza in Italia column
Life is challenging, but Dancing Times soldiers on, as it has done for 110 years, more than any other dance publication. In all that time, even during world wars, it has never missed publishing an issue, and the coronavirus isn’t about to stop it in its tracks.
Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column was lucky in that it is bi-monthly, and as such still had some shows to review.
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Les Étoiles for three days shone over Rome
The annual orgy of dance that kicks off the year in Rome, known as Les Étoiles, began in 2015 with an evening in the Auditorium della Conciliazione near the Vatican with its 1,700 seats. The gala has grown to occupy three days in the Auditorium Parco della Musica with its 2,800 seats. The reason for…
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Costume fitting: Roberto Capucci’s costumes for Sergio Bernal and Young Gyu Choi for Les Étoiles
Roberto Capucci, the creator of the most exquisite gowns, now at the age of 90, has designed costumes for the dancers Sergio Bernal and Young Gyu Choi. They will go on stage for three galas, Les Étoiles, in Rome (24-26 January 2020). Below is a gallery of his designs and the two dancers during a…
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Les Étoiles Gala in Rome 2020 features the ballet world’s starriest names with some surprises
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…
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Dancing Times, November 2019 edition – with Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column including Sleeping Beauty at La Scala and Pink Floyd in Verona
The latest issue of Dancing Times magazine (out on Friday) contains a double-page spread dedicated to the Gramilano ‘Danza in Italia’ column reviews, with a look at Rudolph Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, The Tokyo Ballet on tour in Italy, and Daniele Cipriani Company’s new production SHINE Pink Floyd Ballet at Verona‘s Teatro Romano….
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SHINE Pink Floyd Moon – a dazzling new dance work casts its magic spell
SHINE Pink Floyd Moon is a new dance work from Belgian choreographer, Micha van Hoecke, based on the British band’s most celebrated tracks. Their music is performed live by a ‘tribute’ band, Pink Floyd Legend, though that term might conjure up a negative image of bad wigs and costumes. No, this band, directed and fronted…
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SHINE – the Pink Floyd Rock-Opera Ballet in Verona’s Teatro Romano, 5 September
“You must understand that you are another world in miniature, and that there is in you sun and moon and also stars.” It’s certainly unusual to kick off a press release about a dance show with a quote from a third-century Christian scholar. Simonetta Allder, head of the press office for Daniele Cipriani Entertainment, usually…
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Rock ballet ‘SHINE Pink Floyd Moon’ by Micha van Hoecke tours Italy’s open air festivals
Belgian choreographer, Micha van Hoecke, has collaborated extensively with conductor Riccardo Muti over the years, providing choreography for operas when the Maestro was head of La Scala, and then later in Rome when Muti took over at the Rome Opera for a short time. The association also brought him to the Ravenna Festival, founded and…
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Photo album: Gala Les Étoiles at Ravenna Festival with international ballet stars
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,…
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