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Interview with Riccardo Muti on the G7 Culture meeting as he asks, Who will...
The first G7 of Culture will be held in Florence on 30 and 31 March 2017.Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States will participate in a meeting to discuss the protection of...
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La Scala Ballet’s programme change for the US – with Bolle, Nuñez and Copeland
The previously announced ballet to be performed at California’s Segerstrom Center by La Scala’s Ballet Company was Mauro Bigonzetti’s Cinderella, a ballet created for the opening of La Scala’s ballet...
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Interview with Cecilia Bartoli on home… Zurich, Salzburg and her beloved Rome
Cecilia Bartoli has homes in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Anna Maria Liguori talked to her about them for the Repubblica newspaper.RomeRome is my city of choice. For love, I moved to Zurich as I...
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Diana Damrau in glamorous (faux) fur for her new album, Grand Opera
Diana Damrau’s new album, Grand Opera, shows off the genre at its most grandiose and opulent, with eleven arias and duets by Meyerbeer. On the cover, which comes out in May, she wears suitably...
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Sergei Polunin returns to dance with Natalia Osipova at The Royal Ballet
Former Royal Ballet Principal Sergei Polunin will partner Natalia Osipova in June, when he returns to dance in Frederick Ashton’s Marguerite and Armand. Other casting sees another former Royal Ballet...
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Julio Bocca talks about his emotional 50th Birthday Gala in New York this Friday
Youth America Grand Prix celebrates Julio Bocca on his 50th Birthday, as part of its Legends in Dance series, this Friday, 14 April.An exciting programme sees Luciana Paris and Marcelo Gomes in My Way...
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Thomas Hampson dominates La Scala’s stage with his supreme artistry
Thomas Hampson returned last night to La Scala, where he has been a regular presence in recital for almost three decades. Extraordinarily, he has never sung an opera in Milan, but next month he will...
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Robbins-Preljocaj-Ekman with Eleonora Abbagnato and the Rome Opera Ballet
Eleonora Abbagnato, who became director of the Rome Opera Ballet two years ago (while retaining her position as Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and commitments such as a panel judge for the reality...
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First look at La valse – Symphony in C – Shéhérazade, opening tonight at La...
The new triple bill which opens at La Scala this evening is unique indeed! It features a new version of Ravel’s La valse by three choreographers, all dancers with the company.Stranger still is that...
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CD review: Diana Damrau in Meyerbeer’s Grand Operas – a diva in her prime
Meyerbeer: GRAND OPERA with Diana DamrauThis glorious new album finds Diana Damrau in sparkling, top-notch form. The exacting demands that Meyerbeer makes on the soprano voice are shrugged off by a...
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Mayerling opens tonight at The Royal Ballet… here’s a sneak peek
There are casts, and casts… this is a cast! Opening a run of Mayerling performances this evening at The Royal Opera House sees Edward Watson in the role he’s come to dominate, Prince Rudolf; Mary...
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Balanchine saves the day – a triple bill at La Scala: La Valse, Symphony in C...
An odd evening at La Scala saw Balanchine’s pure, sparkling choreography for Symphony in C sandwiched between two new contemporary creations on music which has already had phenomenally successful...
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19-year-old Vaganova Ballet Academy student fights for her life
Nikolay Tsiskaridze is in town with two of his star pupils from the Vaganova Academy. Eleonora Sevenard and Egor Gerashchenko are surely future stars that will be seen increasingly over the coming...
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New YouTube Video: Margot Fonteyn and Ivan Nagy dance Skibine’s Romeo and Juliet
Gramilano has just uploaded a video to YouTube with Margot Fonteyn and Ivan Nagy. They are dancing the balcony scene from George Skibine’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, which uses music from Berlioz’s...
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New York dancers come together for the 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer plus...
The American Cancer Society – Our Mission is to Save Lives, Celebrate Lives and Lead the Fight for a World Without Cancer! – is staging its 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer.Erin Fogarty Bittner, who is...
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English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer 2017 – judging panel and repertoire
Now in its eighth year, English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition will this year be held at Sadler’s Wells, for the first time, on Thursday 25 May 2017.Through this annual event, English...
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Good news… Frédéric Olivieri’s back to head the La Scala Ballet
Frédéric Olivieri has been named as the next director of the La Scala Ballet Company. His contract will run for the next three years.La Scala’s Intendant, Alexander Pereira, told the corps de ballet of...
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Mauro Bigonzetti’s new work for La Scala: preview of Progetto Händel
La Scala’s series of chamber music ballets which started with Heinz Spoerli’s Cello Suites, followed by a new commission from Massimiliano Volpini of Il giardino degli amanti (The Lovers’ Garden) is...
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Thomas Hampson answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Singers’ Edition
Q&AWhen did you start singing? In the crib. Apparently, I was a very vocal baby 😉… no seriously, I already sang as a child.Why did you start singing? I loved tunes and music always made sense to...
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Photo album and cast of Don Giovanni at La Scala
Robert Carsen’s spectacular production for La Scala of Don Giovanni created for the opening of the opera season in 2011, started a ten-performance run last night, which ends on 6 June.The Financial...
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