Review: Marianela – Timeless, a love letter to the audience
Lily Hyde sees Marianela Nuñez in Marianela: Timeless – it is Nuñez’s night, and hers alone.
Rudolf Nureyev
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Davis Aloschi, a 15-year-old La Scala ballet student, dies in tragic accident
Davis Aloschi, a 15-year-old student at La Scala’s ballet school, died in a crash between two scooters.
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La Scala’s 2026-2027 Ballet Season announced
La Scala announces its 2026-2027 Ballet Season with nine works, including five premieres and four new productions.
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Interview: Carlos Acosta on his special project at The Royal Opera House this summer
Diane Parkes talks to Carlos Acosta about Myths and Modern Masters, the mixed bill that he’ll present at The Royal Opera House in August.
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Review: Marianela Nuñez and Patricio Revé in the Norwegian National Ballet’s La Bayadère
Graham Watts sees La Bayadère in Oslo where two stellar dancers shared the stage with an excellent company.
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Interview: American Ballet Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director Clinton Luckett on Sylvia
Clinton Luckett spoke with Ann Haskins about the ABT ballerinas dancing Sylvia, Delibes’ music, and the challenges of the role created on Margot Fonteyn.
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Review: La Bayadère in Rome with Iana Salenko and Bakhtiyar Adamzhan
Marta Mele sees the bright colours and the tragedy of unattainable love in La Bayadère at Rome Opera House with Iana Salenko and Bakhtiyar Adamzhan.
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Review: Nureyev’s The Sleeping Beauty at La Scala – thrilling in its eccentricity
Graham Spicer sees Rudolf Nureyev’s The Sleeping Beauty at La Scala with an electrifying Martina Arduino as Aurora.
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The Porselli ballet boutique next to La Scala closes after 55 years
The historic Porselli shop on Via Filodrammatici, opposite La Scala’s artists’ entrance, has closed after 55 years.
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Anna Razzi, former étoile of La Scala Ballet, has died at 85
Dancer and ballet director Anna Razzi has died at 85. She was an étoile at La Scala and directed the ballet company and school at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
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English National Ballet announces its 2026-2027 season – A Season to ‘Feel More’
English National Ballet’s 2026-2027 season “opens up the possibilities of ballet, offering more ways to discover, feel and engage with ballet, on stage and beyond”.
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Navrin Turnbull is appointed Principal Dancer at Teatro alla Scala
After last night’s performance of Sleeping Beauty at La Scala, soloist Navrin Turnbull was promoted to the role of Principal Dancer in the company.
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La Scala’s Federico Fresi returns in Sleeping Beauty after a two-year battle with cancer
La Scala Ballet Soloist Federico Fresi returned to dance on the opening night of the ballet season after a two‑year battle with a rare tumour.
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Review: Natalia Osipova at the Linbury Theatre continuing her rollercoaster ride
Graham Watts sees Natalia Osipova in ‘Osipova/Linbury’ – “this remarkable star of 21st century ballet continues to expand her horizons”.
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Review: Marco Spada returns to Rome for the first time since Rudolf Nureyev’s appearances in 1981
Marta Mele sees Marco Spada with Rome Opera Ballet, a ballet first restaged in Rome in 1981 by choreographer Pierre Lacotte for Rudolf Nureyev.
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Teatro La Scala pays tribute to Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani – who died yesterday in Milan at the age of 91 – was a pillar of Milanese cultural life, including his support for opera and ballet at Teatro della Scala.
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Review: Gala Mario Porcile at the Nervi Festival – international stars in a refined programme
Graham Spicer sees Gala Mario Porcile at the Nervi Festival, with dancers from The Royal Ballet, Hamburg, Dutch and Bavarian State Ballet companies, and ABT.
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As queer male representation in ballet soars, queer female representation stays firmly on the ground
As the dance work based on Isherwood’s gay novel A Single Man comes to London’s Royal Opera House, Lily Hyde laments the lack of female queerness in ballet.
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Tonight – closing gala of the Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025, near Genoa
This evening, the Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025 closes with a gala dedicated to its founder – the Mario Porcile Gala – with international stars.
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Review: Nureyev’s Swan Lake at La Scala with Alice Mariani and Navrin Turnbull
Graham Spicer sees Swan Lake at La Scala – one of Rudolf Nureyev’s most successful choreographies.
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Les Étoiles Pour Homme, an all-male gala, concludes the Ravenna Festival
Les Étoiles Pour Homme – With a title that sounds like a men’s perfume producer Daniele Cipriani throws down a gauntlet to George Balanchine.
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Interview with dancer Jacopo Bellussi, the new Artistic Director of the prestigious Nervi Festival
Interview with Hamburg Ballet’s principal dancer Jacopo Bellussi, the new Artistic Director of Nervi International Ballet Festival.
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La Scala presents its Ballet Season 2025-2026
The first Ballet Season created by the new director Frédéric Olivieri sees popular revivals, contemporary voices, and 20th-century greats.
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Review: Gala Fracci 2025 – Marianela Nuñez and Reece Clarke join La Scala Ballet to celebrate Carla Fracci
Graham Spicer sees Gala Fracci, La Scala’s annual festa to celebrate the great Italian ballerina Carla Fracci who died in 2021, now in its fourth edition.
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Dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival
The Italian Minister of Culture has nominated dance impresario Daniele Cipriani to direct the Spoleto Festival from 2026.
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William Forsythe’s Ballets: Writing/Watching in a Contemporary Fashion
After seeing English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme, Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel reflects on William Forsythe’s career… so far.
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Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025 with The Royal Ballet, Paris Opéra Ballet and Stuttgart Ballet among the line up
The Nervi International Ballet Festival 2025 opens on Saturday 28 June 2025 in Genoa with top companies offering starry casts.
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Interview: Roberto Bolle turns 50
Today is Roberto Bolle’s 50th birthday and for the occasion we have published online my interview with him for Dancing Times magazine.
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Interview: Manuel Legris leaves La Scala’s ballet company in its best shape ever
Manuel Legris leaves his post as director of La Scala Ballet and we look back to the moment he took over in 2020.
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Photo Album: The Hidden Gaze – Dance Behind the Curtain, the Corps de Ballet of La Scala as photographed by Gérard Uféras
A book and an exhibition at La Scala’s Museum show the dancers of La Scala observed though the lens of Gérard Uféras.
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