Review: Alice Marini and Roberto Bolle in a new Carmen in ‘Kratz / Preljocaj / De Bana’, La Scala’s contemporary triple bill
Graham Spicer sees works by Philippe Kratz, Angelin Preljocaj, and Patrick de Bana in an uneven triple bill.
Graham Spicer sees works by Philippe Kratz, Angelin Preljocaj, and Patrick de Bana in an uneven triple bill.
Matthew Paluch sees Natalia Osipova in three pieces at the Royal Ballet and Opera’s Linbury Theatre with Marcelino Sambé and Christopher Akrill.
Notwithstanding organisational difficulties in bringing dancers from around the world to Rome for the annual Les Étoiles gala, it gave joy to packed houses.
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.
Italian singer Mina, whose discs top the charts, yet she hasn’t sung in public, not even in television, since 1978, has been the voice of Barilla since the ’60s. Her unmistakable voice tells us why we should buy Barilla’s pasta while one of her songs plays in the background. Mina’s only contact with the public is…
Sergei Filin had been receiving intimidating phone calls for a while, and had had his tyres punctured and his email hacked, but the acid attack that has shocked the dance world is beyond all reasoning. While police are not ruling out a personal vendetta, it is almost certainly an attack by someone who wants him…
One of the most respected Milanese theatres was born from an artistic collaboration between three pillars of Italian theatre: the director Franco Parenti, writer Giovanni Testori and up-and-coming young director Andrée Ruth Shammah. Together they formed the Salone Pier Lombardo which, since Parenti’s death in 1989, has been run by Shammah, and renamed Teatro Franco Parenti. This getting-together…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has asked a Houston Fox affiliate for a formal apology after it aired a “Is TV Too Gay?” segment following last week’s 90-minute Lady Gaga–themed episode. The segment zeroed in on the pretty gay Glee, asking whether it “delve[s] too much into homosexual relationships.” And Fox host…
The Guardian went to meet Patrice Chéreau who is in London to rehearse the first play he has ever directed in the UK. It’s a coup for the Young Vic. The play he is rehearsing is I Am The Wind, a spare, concentrated two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse. He talked about working with English actors: They are…
Anatoly Iksanov, the general director of the Bolshoi Theatre, has confirmed that what’s seemed like a never-ending reconstruction of the Bolshoi’s historic building is finally coming to an end; he promised that a gala concert in October will cap a tough period in the life of this Russian symbol you can see on the crumpled…
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