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La Scala pays tribute to Magda Olivero who has died at 104
Theatrical to the last, the great soprano Magda Olivero died on La Scala's opening after the summer break. Before Maria Agresta's recital a beautifully worded tribute to Olivero's career, voice and...
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Sergei Polunin quits ballet for Hollywood
Two years after joining Moscow's Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre under the protective wing if Igor Zelensky, Sergei Polunin is on the move again. According to RIA Novosti he has...
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The funeral of Magda Olivero — 11 September 2014
Magda Olivero's funeral was a life affirming mix of emotions. She was a practising Catholic, and three different priests who had been close to her for many years spoke about this very special woman.A...
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The world of composer Steve Barakatt: from space to eternal life in Russia
You may not have heard the name of Canadian composer Steve Barakatt, but how many composers have had a composition played in space? This happened on 20 November 2009 when Barakatt's UNICEF...
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Brava, Jessye! Met Opera Guild’s 80th Luncheon salutes Jessye Norman
On Friday, November 21, the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s 80th Annual Luncheon presents Brava, Jessye! to salute the legendary Jessye Norman, who recently wrote about her life in a memoir titled Stand Up...
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Ivan Vasiliev writes from his hospital bed
Ivan Vasiliev has been forced to pull out of the Don Quixote performances at La Scala with Tamara Rojo.The casting has already suffered some upsets as The Vasiliev-Osipova coupling was to share...
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Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson to star in Sweeney Todd in London
After the success of Sweeney Todd in concert with the New York Philharmonic in March of this year, Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson return in their roles for thirteen performances at the London...
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Tamara Rojo on Ivan Vasiliev: everyone makes their own choices
"It's a shame, but I am not going to criticise him. Everyone makes their own health choices: in the past, I risked a lot by dancing with an appendicitis."Tamara Rojo was talking about her intended...
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Three Leonardo da Vinci paintings on loan from the Louvre for the Milan Expo...
The Louvre in Paris has given the ok for three of its Leonardo da Vinci paintings to travel to Milan for the ambitious exhibition of the painter's works to coincide with the Milan Expo in 2015.Leonardo...
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At La Scala: Tamara Rojo and Claudio Coviello in a winning Don Quixote
What an extraordinary dancer Tamara Rojo is. Here she was, fabulous at forty, able to toss off the fiendishly difficult - and long - role of Kitri in Rudolf Nureyev's Don Quixote.No balance is missed,...
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La Scala’s Don Q disaster — all four guest dancers pull out
Could it be that Rudolph Nureyev's Carabosse is getting her revenge as his production of Sleeping Beauty is being dropped next season to be replaced by a version by Alexei Ratmansky? Whatever, there...
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La Scala’s archive now open to everyone online
From today, La Scala's archive can be consulted freely, without registering.The ongoing project, known as DAM or Digital Asset Management, is cataloguing, photograpèhing and scanning the Milanese...
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Nicoletta Manni’s a fine Kitri in a fine company
Well it's an ill wind... Natalia Osipova's last minute cancellation as Kitri at La Scala left the way open for Nicoletta Manni, newly appointed principal dancer with the company, to show the Osipova...
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Eleanor Bergstein’s Dirty Dancing alights in Milan
Dirty Dancing comes to Milan with the biggest advance booking since Stage Entertainment took over the Teatro Nazionale, beating even Beauty and the Beast and Mamma Mia! The producers must be breathing...
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Call Me Debbie: the Down-to-Earth Diva Deborah Voigt tells all
In January next year, Deborah Voigt’s "strikingly honest memoir" will be published by HarperCollins entitled Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva.The press release announces that...
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Julio Bocca involved in serious car accident
Yesterday afternoon in Uruguay, Julio Bocca's car was completely destroyed when it careered off the highway but, remarkably, he has only suffered minor injuries.Bocca, director of the National Ballet...
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Bryn Terfel at La Scala: me and Tom Cruise
When a singer strides onto the La Scala stage seemingly fearless, takes in every inch of the theatre as though it was home, and their opening notes show that the voice lives up to the promise of the...
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Andrey Merkuriev answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&AWhen did you start dancing? When I was five I started dancing things like the cha-cha-cha and rumba. Ballet began when I was ten.Why did you start dancing? Teachers and parents saw my great...
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What a mess: Italian tv tries to film Don Quixote
What an opportunity: two of the best dancers in the world - Natalia Osipova and Leonid Sarafanov - in one of Rudolph Nureyev's most successful choreographic works, and with a company at the top of...
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Joyce DiDonato sings her latest album live in streaming tonight!
Tonight, Friday 3 October, Joyce DiDonato will perform the music from her new album Stella di Napoli at the Gowanus Ballroom, a warehouse performance art space in Brooklyn, located above Serett Metal...
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