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The Royal Opera announces its 2024-2025 Season

30 April 2024 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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The Royal Opera Season 2024-2025 The Main Stage and Linbury Theatres will host eight new productions spanning three centuries, including the world premiere of Festen. Based on Academy Award-winning … [Read more...] about The Royal Opera announces its 2024-2025 Season

Michael Fabiano’s ArtSmart online auction to raise funds for youth music education

28 November 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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ArtSmart was started in 2015, founded by the opera singers Michael Fabiano and John Viscardi. Its aim is to “transform the lives of youth in under-resourced communities across the United States” … [Read more...] about Michael Fabiano’s ArtSmart online auction to raise funds for youth music education

[Interview] “Me and my voice” American tenor Michael Fabiano on music and other passions

7 March 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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American tenor Michael Fabiano will make an important role debut and house debut on 22 March when he sings Calaf in Turandot at the Rome Opera. “I’ve been preparing it for years,” he told me. “Many … [Read more...] about [Interview] “Me and my voice” American tenor Michael Fabiano on music and other passions

Royal Opera House: new ballet and opera streams

20 December 2021 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Zenaida Yanowsky as Marguerite and Roberto Bolle as Armand in Marguerite and Armand. © ROH, 2017. Photographed by Tristram Kenton.

Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project is available from the Royal Opera House’s streaming service from Monday 20 December at 19.30 GMT (20.30 CET). The Guardian said: For his new ballet, Wayne … [Read more...] about Royal Opera House: new ballet and opera streams

The Royal Opera House says ‘Thank You NHS’

27 April 2021 by Gramilano 2 Comments

Royal Opera House, new exterior ©2018 ROH. Photograph by Luke Hayes (1)

Royal Opera House has announced a suite of performances, partnerships and events, as well as a special performance by the Royal Opera Chorus for hospital radios up and down the UK, to say thank you to … [Read more...] about The Royal Opera House says ‘Thank You NHS’

Full Royal Opera House TV and streaming times for the Christmas period

5 December 2020 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

The Magic Flute, The Royal Opera. © 2017, ROH. Photographed by Tristram Kenton. (2)

The Royal Opera House has announced its biggest ever programme of streaming and digital content, across a large range of platforms, “brought straight from our house to your house” over the Christmas … [Read more...] about Full Royal Opera House TV and streaming times for the Christmas period

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INTERVIEWS

Cecilia Bartoli and the Les Musiciens du Prince of Monte Carlo © 2018 Alain Hanel,OMC

[Interview] Cecilia Bartoli: Baroque music is for the soul

Maria Callas at La Scala, Il turco in Italia with Franco Zeffirelli 1955

Franco Zeffirelli, at 96, on Anna Magnani and Maria Callas, his career, and old age

Delphine Galou © Giulia Papetti

Interview with contralto Delphine Galou: “making music together with love”

Martha Graham Dance Company Costumes by Martha Graham for Night Journey © Ken Browar and Deborah Ory

The Style of Movement: Fashion and Dance – dance photography from NYC Dance Project

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Interview: Who is Jacopo Tissi? The Bolshoi’s enigmatic Italian star talks about Moscow, Milan and London, “It certainly wasn’t easy”

Woolf Works with Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli © ROH, 2015 Tristram Kenton

Woolf Works at La Scala – McGregor, Richter, Ferri and Bonelli talk about making the ballet

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Ballet22 – mxn en pointe

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Dancing Words – Roberto Bolle talks about his new book

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GRAMILANO

Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Carla Fracci.

Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.

He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.

Since 2022, Gramilano has been pleased to welcome guest authors: Paul Arrowsmith, Donatella Bertozzi, Georgina Butler, Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, Jonathan Gray, Marina Harss, Ann Haskins, Lily Hyde, Marta Mele, Matthew Paluch, Jann Parry, Lucía Piquero, Graham Watts, Deborah Weiss, and Lydia Wharf.

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