Interview: Los Angeles Ballet director Melissa Barak on the company’s Hollywood Bowl debut
Choreographer Melissa Barak took time from rehearsals to speak with dance writer Ann Haskins about Los Angeles Ballet’s debut at the Hollywood Bowl.
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Gustavo Dudamel to leave the Paris Opera at end of 22/23 season
The Paris Opera has announced that Gustavo Dudamel will resign as Music Director at the end of the 2022/2023 season for personal reasons.
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Paris Opera Ballet at the Hollywood Bowl – complete programme
The Paris Opera Ballet returns to international touring, performing two performances at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
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Paris Opera’s ballet and opera season for 2021-2022
The Paris Opéra has announced its 2021-2022 season with 23 operas, 12 ballets of which 14 are new productions: 9 operas and 5 ballets. This adds up to 385 curtain-ups during the season.
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Gustavo Dudamel to become Music Director of The Paris Opera for six seasons
Today, The Paris Opera confirmed the rumours that Gustavo Dudamel will become the Music Director for six seasons from 1 August 2021.
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Despite the pandemic, Dudamel will conduct Otello in Barcelona with an audience
At a time when most theatres around the world are forced to close, the Liceu wants to prove that cultural performances are safe when certain hygiene standards are respected.
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The Royal Ballet in Japan and Los Angeles – dates and casting
The Royal Ballet tours to Japan and Los Angeles this summer, presenting signature work from the Company’s repertory, a world premiere by Wayne McGregor and community engagement projects. Tokyo, Bunka Kaikan Carlos Acosta‘s Don Quixote, 21 – 26 June Yokohama, Kanagawa Kenwin Hall Royal Ballet Gala, 29 – 30 June Los Angeles, The Music Center…
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Photo album and cast of Don Giovanni at La Scala
Robert Carsen‘s spectacular production for La Scala of Don Giovanni created for the opening of the opera season in 2011, started a ten-performance run last night, which ends on 6 June. The Financial Times review opened with, No coup de théâtre ever matched Mozart’s opening chords as stunningly as this. This is a welcome return….
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The perfect Bohème at La Scala… magisterial, stunning!
La Scala‘s La bohème has been a constant presence in the theatre’s programming after more than half a century and now edges towards its 240th performance. The 1963 production by Franco Zeffirelli is stunning in its cinematic realism and sepia tint, his use of crowds is magisterial, the comedy perfectly nuanced, and the tragedy rips through to…
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Cecilia Bartoli to sing Maria in West Side Story
At next year’s Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Cecilia Bartoli will sing Maria in West Side Story! The exclamation mark is my surprise at the announcement, though I have no doubt that hers will be a lively and touching performance. And talking of lively… Gustavo Dudamel will be conducting the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela. (No exclamation…
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600% bounses for La Scala’s musicians but Chailly isn’t happy
You may have already read about the refusal of some La Scala workers to perform Turandot on 1 May being that it is the International Workers’ Day. However, it is also the opening day of the Milan Expo, and I doubt that the hotels, restaurants, taxis and other services will be refusing to work. The situation was resolved…
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La Scala complete Symphonic and Recital programme: 2014 — 2015
Symphonic Programme 29, 30 September, 1 October 2014 Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala Conductor: Zubin Mehta Franz Joseph Haydn Die Schöpfung Hob. XXI:2 Oratorio Julia Kleiter, soprano Peter Sonn, tenor Thomas E. Bauer, bass – baritone Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni 12, 14, 15 November 2014 Filarmonica della Scala Conductor and soloist: Daniel Barenboim Wolfgang Amadeus…
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Gramophone Magazine’s Classical Music Awards 2011 – shortlists
Gramophone‘s shortlists are out for this year’s awards. No real surprises, but then those Gramophone people have great taste! Here’s a sample: Opera: Die Zauberflöte – René Jacobs; Akademie für Alte Musik Ermione – David Parry; LPO Verdi‘s Otello – Colin Davis; LSO Solo Vocal: Richard Rodney Bennett, Songs before Sleep – Sophie Daneman; Susan Bickley; Iain Burnside Britten, Songs & Proverbs…
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Simon Callow recalls his first meeting with Gustavo ‘the Dude’ Dudamel
He emerges from his car running, he’s sprinting towards me, with hench-people running to keep up, and he tells me what an unspeakable honour it is for the orchestra, for him, for Venezuela itself, that I am doing this concert, hardly allowing me to dispense my compliments to him. He’s short, shorter than me, boyish…
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