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Live stream – Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni in La Dame aux camélias at La Scala
La Scala’s video channel will stream John Neumeier’s Dame aux camélias live with Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni.
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Marquee TV to stream London’s Dance for Ukraine gala
Marquee TV will stream Dance for Ukraine, the charity gala performed at the London Coliseum on 19 March. It will be available to view from 14 – 24 April 2022.
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Hugh Jackman, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, Ellen DeGeneres and more to celebrate Betty White’s 90th
An updated list of celebrities has been announced for Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl, which will be transmitted on January 16 on NBC. The special, to be taped at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, will include musical performances and surprise appearances, with White taking the stage to share some memories and give…
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Bored at the Bolshoi?
What an extraordinarily unresponsive crowd to greet the opening of the newly restored Bolshoi Theatre. Ten seconds of timid clapping and then the television director honed in on bored faces, while bangs and scrapes came from the unlit stage during the scene changes. The whole approach, from lighting to graphics, was rather like that of…
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Dexter author concerned that people think his creation is ‘nice’
Jeff Lindsay, creator of serial killer Dexter, talking at Marseille’s Semaine Noire book festival, said, Some believe that Dexter cares about justice. Dexter doesn’t care about justice, he cares about killing. He’s attractive because he’s dangerous. It’s a mistake to think that Dexter is nice. He’s not nice – people romanticise him. He’s a serial…
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Angela Gheorghiu: The Rolling Stones have a big sound. You know why? Because they are plugged in!
Angela Gheorghiu is in London to promote a season of Royal Opera House filmed performances, three starring herself. The Royal Opera House is striving to build up opera and ballet audiences by piping 10 productions, five of them live, into 700 cinemas worldwide. The season opener was last night’s live broadcast of Gounod’s “Faust,” with Gheorghiu. Her…
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BBC Worldwide to sue Silvio Berlusconi’s TV network
BBC Worldwide is suing an Italian television network owned by Silvio Berlusconi over claims that it has copied Strictly Come Dancing. A hearing is due to take place on tomorrow about a new show called Baila!, which is set to debut on Mediaset’s Canale 5 later this month. BBC Worldwide contends it copies Strictly’s concept, which…
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Andy Whitfield, star of TV series Spartacus, dies of lymphoma at 39
Spartacus: Blood and Sand star Andy Whitfield has died. He was 39. Whitfield died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma yesterday in Sydney. In a statement, Whitfield’s wife, Vashti, called her husband a “beautiful young warrior” who died in the “arms of his loving wife.” Whitfield, a Welsh actor who lived in Australia, was virtually unknown to American audiences…
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Rita Moreno, as she approaches her 80th birthday
The effervescent Rita will be 80 in December. She’s still going strong with stage and television commitments. We’ve seen her go from the singing and dancing black-haired Anita in the film of West Side Story, to the gritty realism of strong-willed grey-haired Sister Pete in tv’s Oz. A remarkable career, a remarkable woman, who tonight opens in an autobiographical show Rita Moreno:…
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British actor John Wood dies at 81
John Wood – who won a Tony award in 1976 and appeared in numerous films and TV dramas and appeared in films such The Madness of King George and Shadowlands – has died at the age of 81. Wood, who was made a CBE in 2007 for services to drama, won the Tony for his role in…
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Tom Aldredge, character actor, dies at 83
Tom Aldredge, an Emmy-winning actor who for five decades was ubiquitous on stage and screen, seen in everything from Sondheim to “The Sopranos,” died on Friday in Tampa, Fla. He was 83. “I knew at the beginning I was nobody’s leading man,” Aldredge told The New York Times in 1985, when he was 57 and…
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Columbo star Peter Falk dies aged 83
Peter Falk, most famous for his role as TV’s scruffy detective, Columbo, has died at the age of 83. The actor died peacefully at home in Beverly Hills last night; he had been suffering from dementia for a number of years. Peter Falk won four Emmys for his cigar-chomping role in Columbo, which ended in 1977,…
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The BBC will transmit the Pet Shop Boys ballet with Ivan Putrov on July 1
As part of its weekend of contemporary dance performance, BBC Four will broadcast The Most Incredible Thing, the new, full-length dance piece which premièred at Sadler’s Wells in London earlier this year, featuring music by electronic pop legends the Pet Shop Boys and choreographed and directed by Javier de Frutos. The programme will go out…
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Actress and impersonator Janet Brown dies at 87
Actress and comic Janet Brown, who was best known for impersonating former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has died aged 87. Her agent said she died in her sleep at a nursing home in Hove, East Sussex, after a short illness. In a career beginning in the 1930s, she gained national TV fame in the 1970s and…
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Actor Edward Hardwicke dies at 78
Edward Hardwicke, who died on Monday aged 78, was best known on television for playing Dr Watson in a Sherlock Holmes series in the 1980s, but had already come to public attention in the 1970s series Colditz as the character based on the real-life war hero Pat Reid. Hardwicke had been suggested as the bumbling…
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Scarpette Rosa (Pink Shoes) with Italy’s great ballet star, Carla Fracci
In 1967, so great was the fame of Italian ballerina Carla Fracci, that the RAI television dedicated an evening to her with a ‘musical’ – Scarpette Rosa (Pink Shoes). What is extraordinary is the presence of so many Italian stars who had no trouble in playing second fiddle to this young dancer. From the legendary…
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From ballet dancer to Celebrity Survivor! – Italian style
Italian ballet dancer Raffaele Paganini, ex-étoile of the Rome Opera Ballet, has always been popular with the general public after numerous television appearances in the 80s. Since 2000 he has been seen most notably on stage in musicals (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Singing in the Rain, An American in Paris), but this week, at…
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BRB’s Cinderella under the BBC’s Christmas tree
Cinderella is the BBC’s ballet offering for Christmas. The new, much-acclaimed Bintley production for the Birmingham Royal Ballet will be shown on BBC 2: Performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet in its 20th anniversary year, BBC Two broadcasts a new production of Cinderella – a dazzling visual experience choreographed by David Bintley. The production brings…
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