2018 marks 80 years since Rudolf Nureyev was born and 25 since he died. La Scala in Milan have marked the occasion with a series of Gala celebrations and performances of his Don Quixote, Manuel Legris organised a celebration with the Vienna State Ballet, and many more tributes have been staged to doff a hat…
I certainly wasn’t the only one to have doubts when Roberto Bolle announced his intention to climb onto Béjart’s red table. Facebook was abuzz with comments from puzzled ballet fans who couldn’t see him as La Mélodie. Even now, after his run of performances of Boléro, many hold on to that view. How delighted I…
Two years after joining Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre under the protective wing if Igor Zelensky, Sergei Polunin is on the move again. According to RIA Novosti he has left for Hollywood. Ara Karapetian, the theatre’s General Manager, said that, Sergei has decided to leave the ballet and pursue an acting career. He went to Hollywood,…
Angela Gheorghiu, despite acting like a diva, doesn’t come across as one during her recital at Italy’s La Scala. There is a sense of insecurity, though she relaxed during the Romanian songs, revealing her playful, often drag-queen-like, nature.
Leonard Slatkin’s gloriously entertaining and informative book, Conducting Business, is subtitled Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro, and that is exactly what his book does, with wit, acute observation, and the knack of evocatively conveying the inside story. Although partly autobiographical, it is also part manual – a conductor’s survival guide – and doesn’t follow…
‘A British Love Affair’, an exhibition exploring Marilyn Monroe‘s connection with Britain, will be at the National Portrait Gallery from 29 September. The display is free to visit and coincides with the 50th anniversary of Monroe’s death. Portraits of Monroe by British photographers will be shown alongside rare magazine covers, vintage prints, lobby cards and film stills…
The Financial Times has some, understandable, reserves in an otherwise excellent review: My cheers for the ensemble are as loud as anyone’s, as also my admiration for the principals: for José Martin’s vivid Lescaut, for Gary Avis‘s tumescent Monsieur GM, for Itziar Mendizabel as Lescaut’s mistress, sailing through terrible difficulties with sublime insouciance, for Bennet…
A bankruptcy judge in Florida ruled last week that photos taken in 1946 of Norma Jeane Dougherty – who went on to become Monroe – will be sold at auction to settle the debts of the photographer. His copyrights and images from Marilyn Monroe‘s first photo shoot are hitting the auction block. Joseph Jasgur’s photos, negatives…
The pleated ivory dress that blew around Marilyn Monroe in an iconic scene from “The Seven Year Itch” sold for $4.6 million at a weekend auction of Hollywood costumes — far exceeding its estimate. The so-called “subway” dress is perhaps the most recognizable in movie history. In Billy Wilder’s 1955 movie, a passing train sent…
Movie costumes worn by Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe will go up for sale in June from a collection belonging to fellow actress Debbie Reynolds. Monroe’s subway dress from The Seven Year Itch, Judy Garland’s blue cotton dress and ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz and Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp bowler hat…
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