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Roberto Bolle fills cinema screens the length and breadth of Italy for three...
Tonight, and for the next two evenings, in almost two hundred cinemas across Italy, Roberto Bolle will be filling the screen.Roberto Bolle: L’arte della Danza (Roberto Bolle: the art of dance) is...
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Osservatorio – Fondazione Prada inaugurates its new photographic exhibition...
In December, Fondazione Prada will unveil its new exhibition space, Osservatorio, dedicated to photography and visual languages and located in Milan’s iconic Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, which sits...
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The Royal Ballet celebrates Peter Wright’s 90th birthday
Last night The Royal Ballet dedicated the performance of The Nutcracker to its choreographer Sir Peter Wright who tomorrow, 25 November,celebrates his 90th birthday. His production of the Christmas...
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Riccardo Chailly on Puccini’s first Madama Butterfly, soon to revisit La Scala
There is a small exhibition in La Scala’s museum which looks at the theatre’s previous productions of Madama Butterfly, an opera that had its world premiere at the theatre in 1904. What is surprising...
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David’s back! David Hallberg returns to ballet after 2½ years
If you visit Australian Ballet’s site with its casting for Coppélia and scroll down – after company members Chengwu Guo, Brett Chenowyth, Ty King-Wall, Christopher Rodgers-Wilson, Joseph Chapman – you...
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Children banned from the Bolshoi Ballet
A week ago, a group of parents with their young children – 5-11 years-old – were refused entrance to a performance of Swan Lake, and without a refund being offered.The Bolshoi’s General Director,...
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Jury members announced for the Prix de Lausanne 45th edition
The jury of Prix de Lausanne 2017 is composed of nine major personalities from the dance world, presided over by the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare.O’Hare said,The Prix de Lausanne is a...
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Lauren Cuthbertson and other Royal Ballet dancers grace the pages of Town and...
Royal Ballet dancers Lauren Cuthbertson, Marcelino Sambé, Anna Rose O’Sullivan, Hannah Grennell and Gina Storm- Jenson grace the pages of the Winter 2016 issue of Town and Country magazine. A suitably...
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Nutcracker in Milan – Bouder and Macario open tomorrow night
There is a rare opportunity to see Amedeo Amodio and Emanuele Luzzati’s glorious Nutcracker which has been dusted down and is ready to conqueror Italian ballet-goers once again.The famous production is...
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Preview of the sumptuous new Madama Butterfly at La Scala
The opening of an opera season is an important event at any opera house, but at La Scala it is indeed something special. It is always on 7 December, Milan’s saint’s day. St Ambrose was the bishop of...
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Backstage at the Nutcracker with The Royal Ballet on Christmas Day
For the first time in many years, The Royal Ballet has allowed BBC cameras to roam behind-the-scenes, this time as the Company prepares for Sir Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker. The...
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Chailly’s Madama Butterfly is a revelation at La Scala – Maria José Siri...
So Madama Butterfly has finally had the triumph at La Scala that Puccini was hoping for in 1904 when the opera received its world premiere. Instead, 112 years ago, it was greeted with whistles and...
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Photo gallery of Czech National Ballet’s new production of The Little Mermaid
“Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very deep, so deep that no cable could reach the bottom: many church steeples, piled one...
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Royal Ballet’s 70th anniversary revival of The Sleeping Beauty – casting and...
The Sleeping Beauty reopened the Royal Opera House after the war in February 1946 when the Company first took up residence in Covent Garden with Margot Fonteyn dancing the role of Princess Aurora.Now,...
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Auditions in Prague as Petr Zuska hands over the Artistic Direction to Filip...
At the Czech National Ballet in Prague, 2017 will see the handing over of the role of Artistic Director from Petr Zuska to Filip Barankiewicz after fifteen years of Zuska heading the company.Zuska, who...
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Nureyev’s bum and Fonteyn’s acquired charm… Peter Wright talks (as always)...
Peter Wright’s excellent autobiography (written with Paul Arrowsmith) contains loads of juicy titbits, and there is something about being 90 that apparently frees you up and permits you saw whatever...
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Photos of the first night cast of The Royal Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty with...
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at...
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Ballerinas of Cairo “reclaiming the streets for women”?
“Bringing Cairo’s dance and photography communities together…” is how the Ballerinas of Cairo defines its Instagram account. The BBC, however, thinks it’s more than that:The Ballerinas of Cairo are...
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Alastair Macaulay’s A-G of Nutcracker rules!
If you are a ballet lover, use Twitter and don’t yet follow the New York Times’s Alastair Macaulay, you really should. His timeline is a witty mix of ballet facts and observations, and world views and...
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Anita Rachvelishvili and David Aladashvili cast magic at La Scala
It’s not often that the accompanist for a recital is mentioned in the opening paragraph of a review, but Anita Rachvelishvili’s recital at La Scala with pianist David Aladashvili was a true joint...
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