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Choral pieces inspired by wartime diaries at National Portrait Gallery
D.H. Lawrence by Ernesto Guardia, copied by Peter A. Juley, 1929 © National Portrait Gallery, LondonThe world première of four pieces of choral music inspired by the National Portrait Gallery’s wartime...
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Polunin, Zelensky and Schaufuss settle out of court
Sergei Polunin and Igor Zelensky on the Midnight Express posterThe Dancing Times reports that Sergei Polunin and Igor Zelensky have settled out of court after walking out of Peter Schaufuss’ production...
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Jack Devant, ballet photographer: freezing the beauty
There are thousands, millions, of dance photos scattered around the net, and most of the best come from just a handful of photographers. We know their copyright watermarks, we know their style, we...
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Angel Corella to retire, close his company and leave Spain
Publicity for A+A in BarcelonaAfter ten years of hitting his head against a brick wall, Spanish ballet dancer Angel Corella has said that enough is enough and is closing his Barcelona Ballet company —...
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Italian bass Ivo Vinco dies at 86
Ivo Vinco and Fiorenza Cossotto after La pietra del paragone, Teatro alla Scala, 1959Italian bass Ivo Vinco died yesterday at the age of 86 in Verona, just thirty kilometres from where he was born,...
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Help Julian, a 16-year-old American dancer, represent the Bolshoi in Sochi
This blog has often championed a good cause: young composers getting their first project off the ground… established composers getting a new project off the ground! Here is a very worthy cause,and an...
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Bolle’s Back: the 2014 tour and being boss at La Scala
Roberto Bolle and Friends, Verona 2012The 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...
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Peace is made, Bartoli’s back, and La Scala’s new season is announced
Well finally the Expo-season 2014–2015 at La Scala has been announced, with Alexander Pereira sitting chummily next to the smiling Milan mayor, Giuliano Pisapia. After the intrigue around the...
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La Scala complete Opera casts and dates: 2014 — 2015
4 December (Preview for young people), 7, 10, 13, 16, 20, 23 December 2014 Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Conductor: Daniel Barenboim Director: Deborah Warner Sets and costumes: Chloe Obolensky Cast Anja...
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La Scala complete Ballet casts and dates: 2014 — 2015
17 December (Preview for young people) 18, 19 (2 perfs), 28, 30, 31 December 2014 4, 10, 16, 18 January 2015Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Choreography: Nacho Duato Conductor: Vladimir...
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La Scala complete Symphonic and Recital programme: 2014 — 2015
Symphonic Programme29, 30 September, 1 October 2014 Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala Conductor: Zubin MehtaFranz Joseph Haydn Die Schöpfung Hob. XXI:2 OratorioJulia Kleiter, soprano Peter Sonn,...
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Meryl Streep to play Maria Callas in HBO’s film of McNally’s Master Class
Rossella Falk as Maria CallasMeryl Streep will play Maria Callas in a filmed version of Terrence McNally’s play Master Class.New York Post’s Page Six reported that HBO would start filming in January of...
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New York City Ballet’s Wendy Whelan brings new work to London for European...
Restless Creature with Wendy Whelan — photo by Christopher DugganNew York City Ballet principal dancer Wendy Whelan, who recently announced her retirement as a classical ballerina to focus on...
View ArticleAn elegant Anja Harteros wins over the audience, if not the cell phones, at...
Looking as though she’d stepped out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting, Anja Harteros came on stage at La Scala in a pinky-red Greek tunic: Euterpe in person.Harteros manages to fold her large voice down to...
View ArticleCecilia Bartoli’s début in L’italiana in Algeri is cancelled
Cecilia Bartoli’s much anticipated début as Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri this weekend has been cancelled.The Italian girl in Dortmund, where the concert performance of Rossini’s opera was planned...
View ArticleOsipova is missing Hallberg, but hopes to return to the Bolshoi
The applause that greeted Natalia Osipova’s return to the Bolshoi stage was enthusiastic.Laura Cappelle wrote in her Financial Times review:The tour marks the Russian superstar’s first performances on...
View ArticleZakharova, Guérin and Legris in new works by Patrick de Bana for China
Svetlana Zakharova is to dance two modern pieces in the Gala Baiser Volé which closes the season at Shanghai’s Grand Theatre on 9 August. It will be the first time that the Russian ballerina dances in...
View ArticlePianist Gloria Campaner’s BBT win funds dance for L’Aquila
The Borletti-Buitoni Trust helps outstanding young musicians develop and sustain international careers with awards that fund tailor-made projects. BBT Fellowships are awarded to artists who are at the...
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The Ballett am Rhein triumphs in Schlaepfer’s monumental German Requiem
Choreographing to Brahms' A German Requiem may seem audacious, or even an affront, but that is what Martin Schlaepfer has done for the Ballet am Rhein and it works... wonderfully. Schlaepfer has...
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Paris Étoile Abbagnato welcomes Millepied and is glad to see Lefèvre go
He impressed us with his simple yet incisive approach during the rehearsals. He is a man who has a life outside dance; this is his true strength. Paris Opera Ballet Étoile Eleonora Abbagnato was...
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