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 ...
Picked by Riccardo Muti in 2024 for the first Italian Opera Academy in China, the 25-year-old took the €12,000 first prize in Novara with the last two movements of Dvořák’s New World Symphony. The ...
The former Royal Ballet principal plays Kafka's fasting showman in a straw-lined cage, with Meow Meow as the Impresario, in A ...
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 ...
It is telling that in a recent press release from The Royal Opera House, the names of the choreographers of the cinema streaming programme are listed, except for one – that of Liam Scarlett. The lack ...
It is over a decade since Dimitris Papaioannou last appeared on the stage (in the duet Primal Matter) and – now approaching his 60th birthday – he has vowed that INK will be his last hurrah as a ...
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 ...
The Royal Ballet’s 2024-2025 season has just been announced – the full programme can be seen below – with an exciting mix of full-length ballets and mixed bills, the company’s hit repertory pieces and ...