Review: BLINDED by DELIGHT in Berlin – a highly executed low-brow show
Matthew Paluch sees BLINDED by DELIGHT at the Palast Berlin – wow, circus-style acts are worth the ticket price alone.
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Royal Swedish Opera auctions costumes to finance its activities for children
UPDATE 25 October 2018: The auction generated over €48,000 which will go to fund the opera house’s activities for children and young people. “With this money, the Opera can offer performances for schools at a discounted prices,” said Anna Karinsdotter, artistic director of the Young at the Opera programme. You might be just in time to…
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Saved by the corps! The Mariinsky under par for Swan Lake in Turin
The buzz of anticipation in the theatre wasn’t matched by the Mariinsky Ballet‘s performance at Turin’s Teatro Regio. Maybe the company decided not to field its top players because it was the ‘pensioners’ matinée’ but, for the Mariinsky, this Swan Lake was under par. The first technical feats in the company’s production are presented by…
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Sydney Opera House to be renamed La Stupenda in honour of Joan Sutherland
The opera theatre at the Sydney Opera House will be renamed in honour of the late Dame Joan Sutherland, fulfilling an election promise by the Premier, Barry O’Farrell, said The Sydney Morning Herald. O’Farrell met representatives of Opera Australia and the Opera House in the theatre yesterday to announce the decision, which follows discussions with Dame…
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Christian Lacroix’s La Source costumes are as tacky as disco
Getting to know a critic’s taste is important to get the most out of a review. I can be convinced to go and see something by a negative review because I know what the writer goes for. I was therefore surprised when The Times‘ Debra Craine detested the look of the Paris Ballet’s La Source….
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