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Gary Avis & his Royal Ballet Friends in Ipswich… dancing for a cause
Dancers from The Royal Ballet Company return to Suffolk for two unique gala performances at the Ipswich Regent.After the success of Gary Avis & Friends five years ago, Avis returns with more of his...
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Ballet de Santiago’s Principal Dancer Luis Ortigoza gives his farewell...
Dressed as Crown Prince Rudolf, after a performance of MacMillan’s Mayerling, Ballet de Santiago’s Principal Dancer Luis Ortigoza gave his last bows to the packed house at the Municipal Theatre....
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New York Opera Fest offers the city two months of opera
The inaugural New York Opera Fest kicks off today, 1 May, and it’s kicking off in a big way with an ambitious two months of programming. Among events this evening is Bronx Opera’s production of...
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La Scala soprano forced to renounce opening night and broadcast of new...
La Scala hasn’t had it easy over the last few months with cast changes for both the opera and the ballet: Cecilia Bartoli’s concert to close the Expo season in October was annulled on the day; Carlos...
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Introducing Rebecca Bianchi, Rome Opera Ballet’s new Principal ballerina
At the end of The Nutcracker at Rome’s Teatro Nazionale on 20 December last year, 25-year-old Rebecca Bianchi was promoted to Principal Dancer of the Rome Opera Ballet by the theatre’s General Manager,...
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Alexander Pereira’s new season at La Scala is rejected by the Lombardy Region
La Scala’s Chief Executive, Alexander Pereira, saw his proposal for the theatre’s 2016-2017 season rejected yesterday by the Lombardy Region, one of the founding members of the Scala Foundation....
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Albert Ayzenberg photographing dancers, “it’s not just about capturing a...
Photographer Albert Ayzenberg was born in the Ukraine, transferring to the United States when he was a child. It was there that he received his first camera.Since I was a little boy I’ve been...
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Critics round-up: Liam Scarlett’s Frankenstein, The Royal Ballet
Not many critics go back as far as the Financial Times’s Clement Crisp, so his saying that The Royal Ballet’s new Frankenstein is,…a balletic evening as bizarre as any I have known at Covent Garden...
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Teatro alla Scala new ballet season 2016-2017, “a strange equilibrium”
La Scala has released its new ballet season for 2016-2017. Not surprisingly, the new Ballet Director. Mauro Bigonzetti, is putting his mark on the season with a new production of Coppélia which he will...
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Royal Ballet tours to Japan this summer with Romeo and Juliet and Giselle
The Royal Ballet will tour to Japan this summer with Romeo and Juliet and Giselle, two iconic productions from the company’s repertory. The tour will take in five cities from Thursday 16 June to...
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La Scala dancers protest over planned new ballet season
At the close of today’s press conference at La Scala to announce Mauro Bigonzetti’s 2016-2017 season, fifty or so company dancers arrived to protest at the repertoire proposed. Bigonzetti – a...
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ENB’s Emerging Dancer competition to be streamed live on 17 May
The English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition at the London Palladium, now in its seventh year, will this year be live streamed for the first time. The broadcast will be in partnership with...
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Paata Burchuladze leaves opera to pursue a career in politics
Paata Burchuladze announced this week that he will run in the parliamentary elections in his native Georgia on 8 October with his State for the People Party. The operatic bass cancelled a year of...
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Eifman Ballet celebrates 40th Anniversary in London with UK premiere of Up &...
The Eifman Ballet will return to London Coliseum from 6 – 10 December with the UK premiere of Boris Eifman’s Up & Down to music by Gershwin, Schubert and Berg. Set during the Jazz Age “the piece...
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Ballerina Mara Galeazzi and choreographer Tim Podesta… It was meant to be
Mara Galeazzi and Tim Podesta… working together is getting to be a habit!Working with Mara is always a blessing. The first time I can recall seeing Mara perform was in Chroma and she was so fierce yet...
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Strong Italian presence in Royal Opera House Muscat’s new season
The Royal Opera House Muscat’s 2016-2017 Season is called Excellence in Diversity. It seems as though building was completed just the other day, yet the ROHM is about to enter its sixth season.In...
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La Scala Opera Season 2016-2017 – full dates and casts
The new season opens with another step along the path of Riccardo Chailly’s Puccini Project, Madama Butterfly, which will be directed by Alvis Hermanis (Die Soldaten and I due Foscari at La Scala) with...
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La Scala Recital and Concert Season 2016-2017 – full dates and interpreters
The concert programme includes some of the greatest living conductors. Riccardo Chailly will be on the podium for two evenings of the Symphony Season, Verdi’s Requiem in October, and the concert to...
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Cesar Corrales wins English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Award 2016
Junior Soloist Cesar Corrales won the English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer award at the London Palladium on 17 May. He performed Contrabajo para hombre, a solo by Julio Lopez, and the pas de deux...
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Maria José Siri on being chosen as Chailly’s Butterfly at La Scala
Soprano Maria José Siri will be the protagonist of Madama Butterfly for the opening of the La Scala opera season on 7 December 2016.She was born in Uruguay but has been living for several years in...
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