The Nutcracker opens on 19 December and runs until 2 January in a contemporary reinterpretation created by Giuliano Peparini for the Rome Opera Ballet in 2015. Company étoiles Alessandra Amato and … [Read more...] about Rome Opera Ballet announces 2021-2022 season
Susanna Salvi
Rome Opera summer season: opera and ballet programme 2021
Trovatore inaugurates the Rome Opera summer season followed by Madama Butterfly and La bohème Programme of dance features Swan Lake and Roberto Bolle Twenty-six evenings of opera, ballet and … [Read more...] about Rome Opera summer season: opera and ballet programme 2021
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 … [Read more...] about Rome Opera Ballet announces 2019-2020 season
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 … [Read more...] about Dancing Times, May edition – including Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column reviewing world premieres of Winterreise and Carmen
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 … [Read more...] about Ramasar and Salvi shine in Jiří Bubeníček’s new version of Carmen in Rome
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, … [Read more...] about Jiří Bubeníček’s Carmen to debut at Rome Opera Ballet with Amar Ramasar as guest
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 … [Read more...] about The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov at the Rome Opera Ballet
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 … [Read more...] about Robbins-Preljocaj-Ekman with Eleonora Abbagnato and the Rome Opera Ballet
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 … [Read more...] about Les Étoiles in Rome: Zakharova, Nuñez, Lopatin, Soares…
