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At the end of April London will get a fresh taste of Cuban energy when The Ballet Revolucion hits the Peacock Theatre on April 25th featuring 18 Cuban hot dances that are hot enough to get just about anyway ready to get up and dance along with. From ballet pirouettes to jazz to hip-hop pretty much [...]  Richard the Lionheart has seen his philandering and tyrant ways reincarnated time and time again in various plays and novels, but the most bizarre is without a doubt in Riccardo Primo re d’Inghilterra by Handel. This rare 1727 opera highlight was easily the best part of the 35th London Handel festival performed as collaboration with the International [...] The Wales Millennium Centre is going to get a fresh breath of air now that conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre have come to visit. The Russians have a partnership agreement with the WMC and have already performed many operas from the Wagner Ring cycle. This time around they will be here for two days and [...] The English National Ballet has recently been performing the re-imagined Firebird, the signature work of the Ballet Russes. The adaptation is done by George Williamson and the changes are quite notable. For one, the apple tree has been removed and so has the scarlet tutu. Additionally, much of the Russian narrative has been removed that was [...] Rai, the Italian pubcaster, has recently started on the development of a new animated film that is going to tell the story of a mad scientist. The film is going to be a Christmas special and is based on a Rossini opera. The short film is being created through a collaboration between the Italian production company DNA [...] The opera star Alfie Boe has performed at some of the most prestigious venues across the country including at the O2, the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera. On 25 July he is going to be performing after the racing event taking place at Sandown Park. The singer used to work in car manufacturing in [...] The Tales of Hoffmann is an example of opera that has been taken to its absolute excesses. It is an opera where reality gives way to delirium and the inconceivable and it is certainly a very odd production. The opera tells the story of a poet, his life, and his various passions, many of which are rather [...] The recent production at Glyndebourne of the Bollywood production by David McVicar is a startling contrast to the simplicity and seriousness of Giulio Cesare, the Handel opera that is being staged by Tim Albery. The set of the production is dominated by a single item and this is designed to represent how Egypt was taken over [...] London’s Dance House, Sadler’s Wells, is bringing its new season of shows in with the focus seemingly on dramas and fairy tales. Following up on the heels of Nutcracker, which was a real treat for Christmas, they are going to be showing Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and a folk tale from Hans Christian Andersen. It is the [...] Romeo and Juliet, the 1960s ballet by Kenneth MacMillan has remained a consistently popular performance since it started. A new run of the ballet is taking place at Covent Garden and this latest production, which stars Thiago Soares and Marianela Nunez, is one of the best productions of the ballet yet. When a new production of an [...] |
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