John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet returns to Rome at the vast Circus Maximus
From tonight at Circus Maximus – ancient Rome’s chariot-racing stadium – audiences of 6,000 can see John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet.
Susanna Salvi
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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: Rome Opera Ballet’s magical performance of La Bayadère
Donatella Bertozzi sees La Bayadère in Rome and has a ‘magical, priceless evening’ with Paris Opera Ballet’s Sae Eu Park and Paul Marque.
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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.
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Review: A cloud of contemporary dreams for Rome Opera Ballet
Marta Mele sees Rome Opera Ballet in a dreamy contemporary triple bill that reconnects the myth of Sisyphus to our virtual lives.
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Paul Chalmer’s new Nutcracker for the Rome Opera Ballet
In Rome, from 21 until 31 December, there will be 12 performances of a new version of The Nutcracker by Paul Chalmer to open the 2023/2024 ballet season.
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[Photo album] Carla Fracci’s Giselle in Rome with Susanna Salvi and Michele Satriano
Rome Opera Ballet’s Giselle is dedicated to Carla Fracci. The opening cast saw Susanna Salvi as Giselle and Michele Satriano as Albrecht.
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Rome Opera Ballet – Season 2022-2023
The new season of the Rome Opera Ballet is announced by the company’s director, Eleonora Abbagnato.
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[Photo Album] Le Corsaire in Rome with Nuñez, Muntagirov, Tissi and Makhateli
José Carlos Martínez’s production of Le Corsaire returns to Rome after a run cut short in 2020 due to the pandemic. Nuñez, Muntagirov, Tissi and Makhateli star.
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Rome Opera Ballet announces 2021-2022 season
Rome Opera Ballet has announced its 2021-2022 season which starts with a Nutcracker and finishes with the restaging of Carla Fracci’s 2004 production of Giselle.
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Rome Opera summer season: opera and ballet programme 2021
Trovatore inaugurates Rome’s summer season followed by Madama Butterfly and La bohème, and dance features Swan Lake and Roberto Bolle.
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Rome Opera Ballet announces 2019-2020 season
Five different programmes make up Rome Opera Ballet‘s new season, 2019-2020. Benjamin Pech’s successful Swan Lake will be remounted to open the season. This will be followed by an evening dedicated to Jerome Robbins; a new work by José Carlos Martínez telling the tale of Lord Byron’s Il Corsaro (The Corsair); a triple bill featuring…
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Dancing Times, May edition – including Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column reviewing world premieres of Winterreise and Carmen
Dancing Times’ May issue is out now, with a glorious cover featuring Margot Fonteyn – the only dancer to be given the title prima ballerina assoluta by The Royal Ballet – who was born 100 years ago on 18 May. The magazine celebrates the centenary of Fonteyn’s birth with articles by The Royal Ballet’s director…
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Ramasar and Salvi shine in Jiří Bubeníček’s new version of Carmen in Rome
Another Carmen? Well, yes, but there is a slightly different slant to this new production for the Rome Opera Ballet because Jiří Bubeníček has used Prosper Mérimée’s novella as his starting point, not Bizet’s opera. The ballet does, however, use Bizet’s music for the main part, which instantly removes originality from the score. Apart from…
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Jiří Bubeníček’s Carmen to debut at Rome Opera Ballet with Amar Ramasar as guest
Carmen, a new work for Rome Opera Ballet by Jiří Bubeníček will receive its world premiere this Saturday, 2 February, and runs until 10 February. The company’s director, Eleonora Abbagnato, said, It’s an honour for me to have a great artist, and fabulous dancer and now a young and successful choreographer like Bubeníček, to present…
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The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov at the Rome Opera Ballet
Jean-Guillaume Bart, former Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, created his version of The Sleeping Beauty for the Yacobson Ballet Theatre in St Petersburg in 2016. His POB colleague Eleonora Abbagnato — currently both an Étoile in Paris as well as director of the Rome Opera Ballet — asked him to adapt it for Rome…
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Robbins-Preljocaj-Ekman with Eleonora Abbagnato and the Rome Opera Ballet
Eleonora Abbagnato, who became director of the Rome Opera Ballet two years ago (while retaining her position as Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and commitments such as a panel judge for the reality show Amici) has brought several works to the Italian capital that she has danced in the French capital. So it was…
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Les Étoiles in Rome: Zakharova, Nuñez, Lopatin, Soares…
A good old-fashioned ballet gala: Nutcracker, Don Q, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire… it’s sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Daniele Cipriani‘s Les Étoiles injected the audience in Rome with a generous dose of positive energy administered by some of the world’s best dancers. It wasn’t all cherries. Silvia Azzoni and Oleksandr Ryabko danced Hamburg Ballet…
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