Out of 148 dance performances at 27 different venues across London during 2014 as well as another 22 performances around the UK and in Russia, Poland, Spain, France and Belgium – Graham Watts from Londondance gives a month by month run down of his highlights in 2014… JULY The Russian (…)
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The Golden Cockerel in London Coliseum by Foteini Christofilopoulou, DanceTabs
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Critical success of Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle in London Summer 2014
ANDRIS LIEPA and company made a triumphant return to the London Coliseum in July with an ambitious, exciting and entertaining programme of ballet dedicated to the great ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The Coliseum programme included the UK premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le Coq d’Or or The Golden Cockerel co-directed and staged (…)
Review: Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle – Mixed bills – Coliseum
Petrushka / Chopiniana / Polovtsian Dances Scheherazade / Le Coq d’Or Act III / Polovtsian Dances 11 & 13 July Both of these stellar evenings of ballet ended with the same remarkable buzz. A flourish made all the more notable since the Polovtsian Dances were created for the second act of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, over (…)
The Golden Cockerel opera review: Sensual, thundering and delightfully outrageous
In this thoroughly enjoyable song and dance junket, the big question is, who is sending up whom? Rimsky Korsakov created some of his most exquisitely sensual and thundering melodies to evoke a romantic Russian history. Think of an excitable Genghis Khan galloping about the Central Steppes of Asia. In fact (…)
Le Coq D’Or
‘Calculating Queen of Shemakha’: Natalia Savelieva in Le Coq d’Or. Photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) is an opera composed by Rimsky-Korsakov and based on a poem by Pushkin. It opened in Moscow in 1909, the year that Sergei Diaghilev first visited Paris with the troupe of (…)
Diaghilev Festival of Ballet at English National Opera: Programme 2 Gala
13th Jul 2014 Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle The final day of the Russian Season at the London Coliseum, the Diaghilev Gala includes a scene from Coq d’Or, Polovtsian Dances and Scheherazade which stars Yulia Makhalina & Artem Yachmennikov. With international guest stars. Conductor: Alevtina Ioffe. Artistic director: Andris Liepa
Diaghilev Festival of Ballet at English National Opera : Programme 1
11 Jul 2014 – 12 Jul 2014 Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle Part of the Russian Season at the London Coliseum, Diaghilev Festival is a collection of Ballets including: Petrushka premiered in Paris in June 1911. Igor Stravinsky wrote the music and co-wrote the story with Alexandre Benois. A tale (…)
Andris Liepa: the ‘perestroika kid’ of Russian ballet
One hundred years on, Andris Liepa, son of famous choreographer Maris Liepa, recreates the performances of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in London. Vintage stagings of Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) and Petrushka arrived in London on July 8-13. As the premiere approached, Andris Liepa talked with RBTH about the (…)
Review: Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle – Le Coq D’Or – London Coliseum
There are so many reasons to cherish this new-old, opera-ballet production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s cutting satire wrapped in a fairy tale that it’s hard to know where to start the list. But, let’s begin with this production’s many claims to uniqueness. It combines opera and ballet simultaneously over three acts (although in the (…)
