The Diaghilev Festival is announced at a time of great interest in the life and work of Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. The Victoria & Albert Museum embarks on a major autumn exhibition – “Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909 – 1929” – opening Saturday 25 (…)
The celebrations of Maya Plisetskaya’s 80th birthday continue round the world, a fact unprecedented and heart-warming. On Sunday night the Royal Opera House will be the setting for a succession of variously splendid duets and solo in order to celebrate an iconic Russian ballerina. The programme will be presented by (…)
Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes first danced in London in 1911. A hundred years on, the Diaghilev Festival at the London Coliseum presents three programmes of revivals and restagings of works from the Ballets Russes repertory. The season will be danced by Kremlin Ballet Theatre, with guest stars Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Ilze Liepa, (…)
Return of the Firebird presents dramatic re-creations of the original Ballets russes productions of The Firebird Petrushka and Scheherezade, first seen in Paris around a century ago. Russian ballet superstar Andris Liepa heads an all-star cast and also directs these magical films, shot in Russia’s famous Mosfilm studios. * BONUS (…)
