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Callas and Sutherland’s tenor — Renato Cioni — dies at 84
Covent Garden chief executive David Webster, with Maria Callas and Renato Cioni Renato Cioni, the great Tuscan tenor, died today in his home town of Portoferraio, on the island of Elba, where he was...
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Renato Cioni’s last interview: remembering Callas
Tito Gobbi, Maria Callas and Renato Cioni — Tosca, London 1964 Renato Cioni, who died today, left at interview just a few months ago, talking to Stephen Hastings, the editor of the Italian magazine...
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Fiorenza Cossotto receives the Marietta Alboni award
Fiorenza Cossotto — Marietta Alboni Award Mezzo soprano Fiorenza Cossotto has been awarded the first Contr’alto di donna prize, given in honour of the great contralto Marietta Alboni. The ceremony and...
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Paloma Herrera answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A Don Quixote with Paloma Herrera — photo by Nancy Ellison When did you start dancing? I started studying ballet when I was seven years old. Why did you start dancing? I have no idea! Nobody in...
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Royal Ballet fields a starry cast for Wheeldon’s Winter’s Tale
The Royal Ballet’s publicity graphic for The Winter’s Tale The Royal Ballet have released casting details for Christopher Wheeldon’s latest project for the company, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The...
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Stepping in for Vasiliev & Osipova: Vittoria Valerio’s turn
Marta Romagna, Ivan Vasiliev and Vittoria Valerio in Rubies Natalia Osipova, down to dance with Ivan Vssiliev in Rubies at Teatro alla Scala, was indisposed for the dress rehearsal, the first night,...
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Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares… giving back
Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares London’s Royal Opera House is involved in lots of charitable work, and during a charitable event Royal Ballet principal dancer Thiago Soares was introduced to Richard...
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Sir Thomas Allen receives the Queen’s Medal for Music
Sir Thomas Allen has been awarded this year’s Queen’s Medal for Music for the major influence he has had on the musical life of the nation. The Queen presented him with his medal at Buckingham Palace....
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Roland Petit on Colette, Poulenc, Cocteau, Fracci, Murru and his ballet Chéri
Roland Petit rehearsing Chéri with Carla Fracci Roland Petit’s evocative and charming ballet, Chéri, was created at La Scala in 1996 for the mature Carla Fracci who turned sixty that year. Colette’s...
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Barbara Luisi: Photographing the Night and the Nude
Barbara Luisi was the first photographer to be featured on gramilano, and as the years pass we love her work more and more. Other photographers to be found here work as dance photographers being that...
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Alexander Pereira brings Al Gore and an 88-year-old Hungarian to La Scala
The next season at La Scala will see not only new faces in the offices and in the pit — Sovrintendente Alexander Pereira and Musical Director Riccardo Chailly — but also a new direction in the...
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Black Swan Gala with Bouder, de Luz and Picone, tours Italy
The title may make serious fans of ballet balk: Gran Gala Il Cigno Nero — Black Swan Gala. If Daniele Cipriani, the producer, wants to cash in on some of the publicity from the Darren Aronofsky film...
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Diana Damrau sings live from NYC’s Poisson Rouge
Didn’t get a ticket for Diana Damrau’s gig at (le) Poisson Rouge tomorrow? Well, it has been sold out for weeks. Happily, there’s an alternative, because the recital, with music from her delightful...
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Portrait of Dame Monica Mason is unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery
Dame Monica Mason and portrait - copyright Jorge Herrera Photography Copyright: Jorge Herrera Photography A newly commissioned portrait of Dame Monica Mason, by artist Saied Dai has been unveiled at...
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Carla Fracci returns to dance on Italy’s heel
Carla Fracci, now in her 78th year, will be opening in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice tomorrow, at Lecce’s Teatro Politeama Greco. The Italian ballet icon will be appearing with the Balletto del Sud in the...
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Elena Vostrotina answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A Elena Vostrotina When did you start dancing? I was always dancing since I can remember. From when I was 5-years-old in various ballet schools, and since I was 10 at the Vaganova Ballet Academy....
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Tsiskaridze: Real ballet dancers are trained in Paris, Moscow or St Petersburg
Nikolai Tsiskaridze — photo by Ilya Grigoriev/RIA Novosti Forget the Royal Ballet School or the The School of American Ballet, Nikolai Tsiskaridze says there are only three real ballet schools in the...
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Milan celebrates one of its most-loved actresses as she turns 80
Giulia Lazzini celebrates her 80th birthday at Milan’s Piccolo Teatro Giulia Lazzarini, one of Giorgio Strehler’s favourite actress, and for decades a constant presence on the stage of Milan’s famed...
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Steven McRae answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A Steven McRae by Rick Guest When did you start dancing? Age 7 in Sydney, Australia. Why did you start dancing? My sister inspired me; she was a brilliant gymnast who also danced. Which dancer...
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New YouTube Video: Roland Petit’s Chéri with Carla Fracci and Massimo Murru
Roland Petit rehearsing Carla Fracci and Massimo Murru in Chéri Gramilano has talked about Roland Petit’s charming and evocative ballet Chéri before, here and here. This is what Carla Fracci said...
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