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The Australian Ballet brings Romeo and Juliet to audiences worldwide

16 October 2022 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

19 - Romeo and Juliet - Sharni Spencer Callum Linnane photo Jeff Busby, Australian Ballet

Free tickets for lucky Gramilano newsletter subscribers After 19 years, John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet returns to The Australian Ballet and will be live streamed from Arts Centre Melbourne to … [Read more...] about The Australian Ballet brings Romeo and Juliet to audiences worldwide

Rolando Panerai dies at 95 – a career of tradition and adventure

24 October 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Rolando Panerai in 1975 in La bohème, photo by Erio Piccagliani

With Rolando Panerai we lose a star of opera that we will not see the like of again, and many of his performances have shaped the history of La Scala’s opera house. La Scala left these words today, … [Read more...] about Rolando Panerai dies at 95 – a career of tradition and adventure

Matthew Bourne’s new Romeo and Juliet comes to cinema screens

23 August 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet in cinema

Matthew Bourne’s contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’.  ‘Difficult’ young people are mysteriously confined by a … [Read more...] about Matthew Bourne’s new Romeo and Juliet comes to cinema screens

Interview with Johan Kobborg and Alina Cojocaru on the eve of their new Romeo and Juliet

13 August 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Johan Kobborg's Romeo and Juliet with Sergei Polunin and Alina Cojocaru, Verona 2019

Johan Kobborg asked David Umenoto to design the sets for his Romeo and Juliet which has its world premiere in Verona’s vast Arena on 26 August. The commission came about after Kobborg had seen an … [Read more...] about Interview with Johan Kobborg and Alina Cojocaru on the eve of their new Romeo and Juliet

La Scala Ballet Season 2019 – 2020

20 May 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Wiener Staatsballet, Sylvia, photo Ashley Taylor

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 … [Read more...] about La Scala Ballet Season 2019 – 2020

English National Ballet presents Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round

7 March 2019 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Emma Hawes and Francesco Gabriele Frola in ENB's Cinderella, photo © Jason Bell, with Art Direction and Design by Charlotte Wilkinson Studio

English National Ballet will perform a new in-the-round version of Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella at the Royal Albert Hall from 6-16 June 2019. Working from the dark Brothers Grimm version of the … [Read more...] about English National Ballet presents Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round

From Noverre to Chauviré: A dancer must have a real depth of culture

5 November 2016 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Lettres sur les arts imitateurs Noverre

If you read November’s edition of Dancing Times (and I strongly recommend that you do!), the magazine’s Talking Point column has some musings by Gramilano on the importance of dancers being informed … [Read more...] about From Noverre to Chauviré: A dancer must have a real depth of culture

Mara Galeazzi returns home for her swan song

1 July 2013 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

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 … [Read more...] about Mara Galeazzi returns home for her swan song

Aterballetto’s Romeo and Juliet in Milan: contemporary dance at its highest level

19 May 2012 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Romeo and Juliet by Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti was created for his company Aterballetto in 2006, and has received international acclaim ever since. But what a strange bird it is. Exotic … [Read more...] about Aterballetto’s Romeo and Juliet in Milan: contemporary dance at its highest level

A thumbs down for the revival of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella

10 December 2010 by Gramilano Leave a Comment

Created in 1997, Bourne's Blitz Cinderella is being revived at Sadlers' Wells. The critics had some doubts. Zoë Anderson in The Independent starts: Matthew Bourne can come across as a brilliant … [Read more...] about A thumbs down for the revival of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella

BRB’s Cinderella under the BBC’s Christmas tree

29 November 2010 by Gramilano 1 Comment

Cinderella is the BBC's ballet offering for Christmas. The new, much-acclaimed Bintley production for the Birmingham Royal Ballet will be shown on BBC 2: Performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet in … [Read more...] about BRB’s Cinderella under the BBC’s Christmas tree

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GRAHAM SPICER

Writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like. I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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