Review: Ballet Central mixed bill – Central School of Ballet’s graduate company
Graham Watts sees Ballet Central perform four works: Solitaire, BOLERO 18, REPLICA, and Times Square Ballet.
Leonard Bernstein
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American Ballet Theatre announces 2026 Fall Season and 2027 Spring Season at The David H. Koch Theater
American Ballet Theatre’s two seasons at the David H. Koch Theater in 2026-2027 were announced by Artistic Director Susan Jaffe.
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Where Worlds Converge: the rich history and modern renaissance of the Spoleto Festival
26 June to 12 July 2026, the 69th Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto: the first edition led by the new Artistic Director Daniele Cipriani.
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Review: Ballet Nights continues to ‘educate, entertain and impress’ with Decadance
Graham Watts sees Decadance, the tenth iteration of Ballet Nights – a high-end brand that hits the mark every time.
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Interview: Joshua Bergasse on West Side Story – reproducing Jerome Robbins’ choreography for LA Opera
Ann Haskins talks to Joshua Bergasse about reproducing Jerome Robbins’ timeless choreography for West Side Story at The Los Angeles Opera.
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Review: West Side Story at the Caracalla Baths in Rome – thoroughly enjoyable, but where was Robbins?
Donatella Bertozzi sees West Side Story in Rome with its strong and pervasive rhythmical sense of staging.
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Review: New York City Ballet at Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens
Matthew Paluch sees the New York City Ballet in Copenhagen: “high-octane, sassy physicality”.
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Misty Copeland and Stevie Wonder receive the Peabody Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance
Misty Copeland and Stevie Wonder rewarded for Outstanding Contributions to Music and Dance.
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The Royal Opera announces its 2024-2025 Season
The Royal Opera season 2024-2025 with presentation, casting, dates and a new name.
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One of Maria Callas’ lost costumes is found
Part of Maria Callas’ costume for Fiorilla from Franco Zeffirelli’s 1955 production of Il turco in Italia has been rediscovered at La Scala.
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[Review] Royal Ballet triple bill: Untitled, 2023, Corybantic Games, Anastasia Act III
Review and photo album of The Royal Ballet’s triple bill with a new Wayne McGregor premiere: “Untitled, 2023”, Wheeldon and MacMillan.
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The second edition of the Carla Fracci gala arrives at La Scala
After the resounding success of the Gala Carla Fracci now, two years after her death, comes the second edition of what will be an annual gala in her honour.
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Royal Ballet’s three one-act ballets – Wayne McGregor (world premiere) | Wheeldon | MacMillan
This June, The Royal Ballet presents a programme of one-act ballets featuring works by Kenneth MacMillan, Wayne McGregor, and Christopher Wheeldon.
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Ukrainian children’s choir rehearses in a bomb shelter before its New York concert
In preparation for its December concert at Carnegie Hall, the Shchedryk Children’s Choir from Ukraine has been practising in a bomb shelter.
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La Scala in città – Milan’s opera house offers five days of free events
La Scala in città decentralises performances, scattering the orchestra, chorus, and ballet in various locations around Milan – and it is all free.
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Giulietta – a new programme of dance in Verona… where else?
Giulietta is the title of a new evening of dance with Eleonora Abbagnato for the Italian summer, and where better to open the mini tour than in Giulietta’s hometown: Verona.
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Leonard Bernstein’s MASS Turns 50
On 8 September 1971, the inauguration audience for the John F. Kennedy Center experienced the world premiere of Bernstein’s MASS.
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Week 6 of New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season
Next week will see the sixth and final week of programming of New York City Ballet’s six-week digital spring season.
On Tuesday 26 May at 8pm EDT, NYCB will release George Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations with Ashley Bouder and Andrew Veyette.
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Francesco Lanzillotta answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Conductors’ Edition
Q&A When did you start playing an instrument? I was 6 years old, and I started to study cello. Why did you start playing? My father is a cellist and my mother loves music, so that is why I started to study cello so young. Which musicians inspired you most when you were young? Stravinsky,…
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Photo Album: first look at The Royal Ballet’s celebration of Leonard Bernstein
The curtain has just gone down on a triple bill that contains two world premieres. Here is a first look at the Bernstein Centenary programme. The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein‘s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from the Company’s three associate choreographers: Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Christopher Wheeldon. This mixed programme is part…
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Royal Ballet Associate Choreographers Celebrate The Music Of Leonard Bernstein
Wayne McGregor – Yugen Christopher Wheeldon – Corybantic Games Liam Scarlett – first revival of The Age of Anxiety Thursday 15 March – Monday 9 April with a Live Cinema Screening Tuesday 27 March. Leonard Bernstein achieved popular and critical acclaim across musical genres. To celebrate the centenary of his birth and as part of the…
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A first listen to the new Maria Callas Live: Remastered Live Recordings 1949-1964
More than a gift to their own coffers, Warner Classics in releasing Maria Callas Live is giving fans of La Divina and lovers of opera a meticulously restored collection of some of her finest performances to treasure. It is timed to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of her death in Paris on 16 September 1977. The…
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Thomas Hampson answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start singing? In the crib. Apparently, I was a very vocal baby … no seriously, I already sang as a child. Why did you start singing? I loved tunes and music always made sense to me. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Frank Sinatra. Which singer do you…
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Marianela Nuñez leads out the Royal Ballet for their American tour
The Royal Ballet returns to the USA in June 2015 with programmes that reflect both the company’s heritage and its contemporary repertoire. It also brings with it the extraordinary lineup of dancers that make up the Royal Ballet today. Aside from the Brits – Lauren Cuthbertson, Rupert Pennefather and Edward Watson – there are the…
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Frank Lopardo answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
When did you start singing? I have been singing singing since I was small boy. However, my first official voice lesson was in September of 1977. The teacher’s name is Dr Robert White Jr. I have studied with him for 38 years. Why did you start singing? It was pointed out to me that I…
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Daniel Barenboim on ‘his’ Fidelio at La Scala
The opening of La Scala‘s season on 7 December each year is the most anticipated and often contested event in the international opera calendar. Daniel Barenboim opens the 2014-2015 Opera and Ballet Season with Fidelio directed by Deborah Warner. It marks the end of his nine years at the Teatro alla Scala at its musical helm, even…
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Fabio Luisi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Conductors’ Edition
Q&A When did you start playing an instrument? When I was three and a half years old. Why did you start playing? My parents sent me to piano lessons, for me it was more like a game. Which musicians inspired you most when you were young? My teacher, Lili Chiesa, who was violinist in the…
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Opera star Regina Resnik dies at 90
Regina Resnik, who was born as Resnick (she lost the ‘c’ early on) in the Bronx in 1922, has died in New York after a stroke, at 90. Resnick had a remarkable career change in her thirties went her voice shifted from soprano to mezzo. In an interview with the New York Times in 1967,…
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Mara Galeazzi returns home for her swan song
You may not to get to see Royal Ballet principal Mara Galeazzi dance at the Royal Opera House again (addio 13 June 2013 in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling), or with the Royal Ballet (addio 29 June in MacMillan’s Manon), but there is a wonderful opportunity to see her dance in three weeks’ time. On 23 July there…
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Beppe Menegatti answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Directors’ Edition
Q&A When did you first go to the theatre? To see Rigoletto at the Teatro Comunale in Florence on 10 October 1939 for my tenth birthday, with Gino Bechi, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Lina Aimaro and the young Giulietta Simionato as Madelena. Why did you want to work in the theatre? In Florence, we give out presents for the Epiphany. When I was…
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