Review: Onegin in Rome – two exceptional performers in a tear-jerking evening
Marta Mele sees the Rome Opera Ballet in John Cranko’s Onegin – two exceptional performers for an audience that did not shy away from the story’s emotions.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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The National Ballet of Canada: a farewell to Guillaume Côté, and a “hello London” with the National Ballet on tour
Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté will retire after 26 years with the National Ballet of Canada, and the company tours to London.
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Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake: mutations, violins and homosexuality
Swan Lake: Vladimir Jurowski’s online concert with the LPO, cut and pasting through the ages, and Tchaikovsky’s adored violinist Iosif Kotek.
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La Scala Ballet Season 2019 – 2020
This morning, Frédéric Olivieri, director of La Scala‘s ballet company, announced the theatre’s 2019-2020 season: Sylvia 14 December 2019 – 14 January 2020 Music: Léo Delibes Choreography: Manuel Legris based on Louis Mérante and others Story and libretto: Manuel Legris and Jean-François Vazelle based on Jules Barbier and Jacques de Reinach Sets and costumes: Luisa…
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La Scala Ballet Season 2018-2019 announced
The new ballet season at La Scala sees seven programmes, including three pieces being presented at the theatre for the first time, including a newly commissioned work. George Balanchine‘s The Nutcracker will open the season on 16 December and it will be the first time that his version has been presented in Italy. A Midsummer…
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Men in Motion at La Versiliana Festival: classics, premières and surprises
The latest incarnation of Ivan Putrov‘s Men in Motion comes to Italy’s La Versiliana Festival. Men in Motion was first presented at Sadler’s Wells in 2012 and has since been performed with great success in Moscow and at the Ravenna Festival, Italy. This version, first presented in London at the Coliseum in January of this…
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Doing arabesques on your husband’s head maybe a strange way to keep a marriage alive. Wei and Wu know otherwise…
Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China’s Swan Lake, premiered in 2005, has been delighting YouTube viewers for years, and more recently the company started touring its version even to important ballet centres. The performance’s fusion of dance and stunts has given the company global recognition. The concept of infusing acrobatics into the performance of Tchaikovsky‘s masterpiece was born when…
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Doodles in the Bolshoi archives
The death of a tyrant, abduction by the secret police and insight into the minds of some of the greatest composers in history are all part of the details that Russia‘s Bolshoi Theatre has discovered in the margins of the centuries-old sheet music in its archives. The discoveries have been made during the digitalization of…
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Rats! No ballet in 3-D ‘Nutcracker’
Says the San Francisco Examiner. While screenjunkies.com write: Finally, someone had the balls to make the holiday film we’ve all been clamoring for: a Nazi-themed version of The Nutcracker. And to top it all off, they’ve given the film a 3D conversion! I love 3D conversions. Though not as much as I love Nazi-themed holiday films. And…
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