Ballet

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Vienna’s new Tchaikovsky forces

The Vienna Volksoper opens its new season with a show that combines opera and ballet, starting on 9 October 2022. Tchaikovsky’s Iolantha and The Nutcracker are the perfect double bill for the other Viennese stage, which brings together choreographer Andrey Kaydanovskiy and, above all, the two new heads of the Volksoper, Director Lotte de Beer […]

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Election of François Alu, at last!

One of the most talked about and talented French dancers has just been appointed Danseur Etoile of the Opéra national de Paris. After ten triumphant performances of Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère, Aurélie Dupont and Alexander Neef took to the stage of the Opéra Bastille on Saturday 23 April 2022 to honour François Alu, Danseur étoile. […]

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Postponed La Bayadère at La Scala in Milan

After detecting some cases of Covid within the corps de ballet, La Scala in Milan has been forced to postpone the opening of its dance season by a few days. The performances of La Bayadère that should have taken place on 15 and 17 December 2021 have been postponed to 12 and 13 January 2022. […]

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Les Étoiles de l’Opéra with Ophélie Gaillard

Currently scheduled at the Paris wonderful Palais Garnier, Les Étoiles et Premiers Danseurs du Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris offers an anthology of solos and duets, partly accompanied by Ophélie Gaillard‘s cello. The artist in duet with the star dancers Sae Eun Park and Hugo Marchand performs La Mort du cygne and A Suite […]

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Sébastien Daucé’s Royal Night at the TCE

Created at the Théâtre de Caen (France) in November 2017, Le Ballet royal de la nuit (a reconstitution of the ballet danced by His Majesty Louis XIV at the age of 15) was so successful that a new tour is being organised. Directed by Francesca Lattuada, Sébastien Daucé directs his ensemble Correspondances at the Théâtre […]

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In Paris, one musical less, one ballet more

While the Théâtre du Châtelet has just announced the cancellation of 42nd Street, the flagship show of the end of the year (postponed to the 2021-2022 season), the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées schedules a new ballet on Thursday 15 October 2020. The stars of four French dance companies (Ballet de l’Opéra national de Bordeaux, Ballet National […]

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Ballet on streaming with the Stuttgart Ballet

Ballet too! While digital platforms offer many operas, ballets are online too. This is the case, for example, of the Stuttgart Ballet which presents online two productions, Johan Inger’s Out of Breath and John Cranko’s Onegin.   Photo : Stuttgart Ballet © DR site officiel