Former Prima Ballerina and assistant director of Sarasota Ballet, Margaret Barbieri, talks to Paul Arrowsmith as the company visits London in a celebration of Frederick Ashton What are your memories ...

In folklore, cats have nine lives; in musical theatre, Cats has how many versions, I wonder…? Unofficial? Probably somewhere in the hundreds; official, as in relation to Andrew Lloyd Webber, I believe ...

After staging the Chicago premiere of Antonio Salieri’s Falstaff this past December, Chicago Opera Theater is performing another rare operatic resurrection with the Windy City premiere of Der ...

Only those who have spent a lifetime on a desert island will be unfamiliar with the memorable tunes from Georges Bizet’s opera. Rodion Shchedrin, who died a year ago, condensed Bizet’s music into a 40 ...

Picture this: a hillside “archaeological site” complete with ancient Neolithic and Greco-Roman artefacts, impressive enough that visitors were charged a €40 entrance fee. Except it wasn’t ancient at ...

Anna Tsygankova and Giorgi Potskhishvili guest in TAM Ballet’s Don Quixote in Milan – a hugely enjoyable springboard for ...

Teatro alla Scala’s streaming platform is dropping its paywall. From Tuesday 1 September, every title in the LaScalaTV catalogue will be available to watch for free, following simple registration – a ...

The former Royal Ballet principal plays Kafka's fasting showman in a straw-lined cage, with Meow Meow as the Impresario, in A ...

Unsurprisingly, this performance reminded me of K-tel (or for younger readers, Now That’s What I Call Music!), both being compilation albums featuring recent pop hits by the original stars, sold at ...

Jerome Robbins’s Quiet City is back on a New York stage for the first time since 1991, alongside a centenary revival of Glen Tetley’s gothic Firebird. London City Ballet is returning to The Joyce ...

In The Royal Ballet School‘s 100th graduating class, this year consisting of 30 students, all have secured contracts with companies as they start their professional journeys – “a milestone moment ...