A new Carmen at La Scala – Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni star in Patrick de Bana’s new work
Carmen is Patrick de Bana’s first work created for La Scala Ballet and has Nicoletta Manni as Carmen and Roberto Bolle as Don José.
Stefania Ballone
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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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Review: the autobiography of Anna Maria Prina, director of La Scala Ballet School for more than three decades
Anna Maria Prina’s autobiography provides a fascinating insight into La Scala’s history, with juicy titbits, opinions and copious information.
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[Review] Romeo and Juliet at La Scala with Alice Mariani and Nicola Del Freo
A gripping revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet at La Scala with Alice Mariani (an intense actress) and Nicola Del Freo (on top form).
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[Review] La Scala’s Bayadère was a race against time
La Bayadère opened at La Scala a week later than planned after a Covid outbreak forced cancellations and major casting changes.
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Photo Album: Rehearsal photos of La Scala’s new mixed bill with Roberto Bolle, Manni, Coviello, Arduino and company
Serata van Manen – Petit, (Van Manen and Petit Evening) opens at La Scala on 23 January. The evening consists of five gems from Hans van Manen and Roland Petit. The three van Manen pieces are Adagio Hammerklavier, Sarcasmen and Kammerballett, while the Petit pieces are Le combat des anges (from his ballet Proust, ou…
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Save the best until last – La Scala’s triple bill shows a company in excellent form
Save the best until last. Not a bad programming policy, and with La Scala‘s recent triple bill, the last was Maurice Béjart’s Boléro. Obviously, with the first item on the programme being George Balanchine‘s Symphony in C it can hardly be the best for many, but the Béjart is undoubtedly a crowd-pleaser and whoops and…
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Winterreise at La Scala rejoices in Angelin Preljocaj’s sublimely melodic choreography
Winterreise is Angelin Preljocaj‘s latest creation, danced to the complete Schubert cycle of Lieder. I stand by my arguments that a large theatre like La Scala is not the right theatre for a piece with just 13 dancers and two musicians, but let’s leave that aside — Winterreise is a beautifully crafted gem of dance…
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Photo Album: first look at Preljocaj’s new piece Winterreise for La Scala
Winterreise by Angelin Preljocaj New commission from Teatro alla Scala in Milan – runs from 24 January to 9 March 2019 Winterreise Franz Schubert Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company World Premiere Choreography Angelin Preljocaj Sets Constance Guisset Lights Eric Soyer Costumes Angelin Preljocaj MUSICIANS Bass-baritone Thomas Tatzl Piano James Vaughan DANCERS Antonella Albano, Alessandra Vassallo,…
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Premiere of “Mahler 10”, Aszure Barton’s new dance piece for La Scala, reveals a small treasure
Aszure Barton has created a gem of a ballet for Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Mahler 10 uses the first movement of Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Tenth Symphony and above it, Barton fashions a small world with a community of people who play, cry and love with directness and simplicity. Although the music is Mahler’s, the atmosphere…
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Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table
Maurice Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala in March, with Roberto Bolle dancing the La Mélodie for the first time. The 15-minute work was last seen in the theatre in 2003 when Sylvie Guillem danced the central role. Béjart Ballet Lausanne’s ‘experts’ Elisabet Ros and Julien Favreau will be featured too, as well as three…
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Proscaenium’s Gran Gala with the best of Italy’s dancing talent
Gramilano has already written about Cincia Puricelli’s dancing school Proscaenium, which is based in Gallarate, a town near Milan’s Malpensa airport. An ordinary town, and on the surface an ordinary dancing school, yet it is bravely run with ambitious goals. Last year Puricelli’s conceit was to invite Carla Fracci (for her first public masterclass) together…
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Mauro Bigonzetti’s Progetto Händel, with Zakharova and Bolle, wows La Scala
Mauro Bigonzetti‘s Progetto Händel is intimate, expressive and beautiful to watch. Yes, for La Scala at least, it is low-cost – an EasyJet ballet – and you could see something similar with another company for a quarter of the price, but if you don’t have to worry about your wallet this is certainly a programme…
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Balanchine saves the day – a triple bill at La Scala: La Valse, Symphony in C and Scheherazade
An odd evening at La Scala saw Balanchine’s pure, sparkling choreography for Symphony in C sandwiched between two new contemporary creations on music which has already had phenomenally successful choreographies set to it: Ravel’s La Valse (Nijinska, Lifar, Balanchine, Ashton) and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (Fokine). This new La Valse was choreographed by Stefania Ballone and Marco…
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First look at La valse – Symphony in C – Shéhérazade, opening tonight at La Scala
The new triple bill which opens at La Scala this evening is unique indeed! It features a new version of Ravel’s La valse by three choreographers, all dancers with the company. Stranger still is that Frederick Ashton’s choreography for La valse was created for La Scala in January of 1958, with Vera Colombo, Mario Pistoni,…
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Martina Arduino in Ratmansky’s Swan Lake – a ballet star is born at La Scala?
If you visit NASA’s website, they define a protostar as the “hot core at the heart of the collapsing cloud that will one day become a star”. 19-year-old Martina Arduino, who graduated from La Scala‘s Ballet Academy just a year ago was entrusted last night, as her first ever principal role(s), with the Odette/Odile characters…
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La Scala’s new Cinderella opens with Polina Semionova and Roberto Bolle
Mauro Bigonzetti‘s new Cinderella, set to Prokofiev’s score, opened at La Scala with fine performances from Polina Semionova and Roberto Bolle as the eponymous heroine and her prince. Bolle is in blazing form and he shows off in a very Prince-like/Bolle-ish way, often entering from the wings with a macho series of grand jeté which he…
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The music of Italy’s n°1 rocker returns to La Scala
Vasco Rossi is one of the most famous Italian rockers. The singer-songwriter has hit sixty, but continues to sell out stadiums. His most famous song, Vita spericolata (Daredevil Life) sums up his own approach to life, and in true rock style he’s regularly finished up in clinics to detox. A strange choice for ballet music? Well, of…
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