Las Estrellas, the Flamenco of the Future – Sergio Bernal and Spanish friends in Rome
Las Estrellas – on 3 and 4 January in Rome – sees Sergio Bernal dance the rarely seen version of Ravel’s Boléro with choreography by Rafael Aguilar,
Teatro Carlo Felice
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Review: The Royal Ballet at the Nervi Festival celebrating Ashton and Paris Opera Ballet’s Signature Pieces
Graham Spicer sees The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet at the Nervi Festival, with the London company pulling aces out of its sleeve.
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Eleonora Buratto’s first solo album “Indomita” reflects the singer and her heroines
Eleonora Buratto’s first solo album, Indomita, has been released featuring a selection of works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Genoa – a stunningly beautiful production
Laurence Dale’s glorious production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a hit in Genoa.
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[Interview] Soprano Benedetta Torre – La Scala’s newest Susanna
Interview with soprano Benedetta Torre on the eve of the opening night at La Scala when she will sing Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro.
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[Review] Opening of Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice opera and ballet season
Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice opened its season with Sull’essere angeli by choreographer Virgilio Sieni and an augmented reality production of Pagliacci.
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[Interview] Baritone Sebastian Catana: never scream or shout
Baritone Sebastian Catana talks about his summer at Verona’s Arena, his debut in Pagliacci, singing in Genoa’s opera house, and on never screaming.
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Dancing Times October 2021 edition
October’s Dancing Times contains the last “Notes from New York” column from Jack Anderson as well as Gramilano’s “Danza in Italia” column on the Nervi Festival.
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Italian festivals of music and dance march onward with creative initiatives and Green Passes
The festivals of music and dance in Italy are back. Last year most were saved in extremis, but this year there was time for more creative solutions.
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Interview with Svetlana Zakharova: I was afraid of gaining weight
Interview with Svetlana Zakharova on touring, lockdown, her family, and her love of Italy.
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More than toes and fingers: Zakharova and her boys in Italy
An entertaining programme from Svetlana Zakharova and violinist Vadim Repin – Pas de deux for Toes and Fingers – brought a sold-out festival crowd to its feet.
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Davide Dato stars in the Italian premiere of Uwe Scholz’s The Rite of Spring
Uwe Scholz’s Rite of Spring will be danced by Davide Dato, principal at Vienna State Ballet, and staged by the work’s original dancer Giovanni di Palma.
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A new John Neumeier work brings two Italian dancers back home
Jacopo Bellussi and Alessandro Frola perform Neumeier’s Peter and Igor in Stravinsky’s Love, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death.
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[Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci costumes
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani seems to be resuscitating dance in Italy almost singlehandedly. The first main dance event in the country was conceived by him and presented in mid-July to open the Nervi Festival. It featured Hugo Marchand, Iana Salenko, Sergio Bernal and many other dancers with an international career, who flew into Genoa to dance for the first time after the four-month imposed break. Cipriani is presenting various socially-distanced galas during July and August, but he is also responsible for a coproduction between the Nervi Festival – organised by Genova’s Teatro Carlo Felice – and the Spoleto Festival, with live music from a (socially-distanced) orchestra playing Beethoven’s only ballet score, The Creatures of Prometheus.
The 1801 work was a collaboration with Italian dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò. The original scenario of the ballet no longer exists, but a theatre programme for the Viennese premiere gives an idea of the structure:
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World premiere of The Creatures of Prometheus/The Creatures of Capucci at the Spoleto Festival in Italy
Beethoven and haute couture – not the first pairing that comes to mind.
Le Creature di Prometeo/Le creature di Capucci (The Creatures of Prometheus/The Creatures of Capucci) celebrates this surprising coupling. Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the Festival of Two Worlds are co-producers of this semi-staged concert which receives its world premiere at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto on 28 August 2020 with a preview on 1 August at the Nervi International Festival of Music and Ballet near Genoa.
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Maria Mudryak answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? My first performance was when I was three years old, then when I was five I started my musical training, and at six I recorded my first CD featuring twelve children’s songs. Why did you start singing? I started to sing because I heard children singing in…
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Anna Pirozzi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? Opera at 25… Pop music at 16 Why did you start singing? It was love at first sight. Which singer inspired you most when you were young? Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Which singer do you most admire? Maria Callas. What’s your favourite role? Aida, Leonora in…
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Giovanna d’Arco – the background of La Scala’s latest production
On 7 December 2015, La Scala‘s 2015-2016 Season opens with Giuseppe Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco, which had its premiere at La Scala on 15 February 1845, but hasn’t been staged at the Milanese theatre since 1865. Bringing back this opera after 150 years is part of the artistic and cultural line that will link the following…
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Barbara Frittoli answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&A in italiano When did you start singing? From what I remember I’ve always sung: when I was seven I had emergency surgery for peritonitis and I sang throughout the operation. Why did you start singing? When I was nine I was accepted at the Milan Conservatory to study piano; choral singing was, and is,…
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Bolle’s Back: the 2014 tour and being boss at La Scala
The Roberto Bolle and Friends road show gets under way again this summer, from 18 July, with a date at the Verona Arena on the 22nd, and finishing at the end of the month, taking in Genoa, Rome, Trieste and Torre del Lago. The mix of classical and contemporary, solos and pas de deux is a…
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Roberto Bolle: Being a star is hard
Roberto Bolle is a serious person. He does half-an-hour of stretching and abs as soon as he gets out of bed, he doesn’t drink coffee with his breakfast but water (“sometimes warm”), and eats simple, healthy dishes (“rice with olive oil and parmesan cheese” or “salad with tuna”). He doesn’t go out often, But there…
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Roberto Bolle and Friends from ABT on tour in Italy
In addition to the Roberto Bolle & Friends dates in New York and Shanghai, a new group of friends will join him for his Italian leg of the tour. Roberto Bolle & Friends from the American Ballet Theatre will be at the Politeama Rossetti in Trieste on 19 July; at Rome‘s Caracalla Baths on 21-22 July; at the Teatro…
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