Andris Liepa has always brought us interesting productions, but his partnership with Georgi Isaakian and the Natalia Sats Moscow State Musical Academic Children’s Theatre seems to have enabled him (and us) to travel back in time. Almost 100 years to the day since it was first performed in London, we (…)
Le Coq D’Or (The Golden Cockerel) at English National Opera, London
The billions of people watching the Sochi Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies saw tributes to Russia’s icons of literature, music, opera and ballet. This summer at the London Coliseum Les Saisons Russes du XX1 siècle stages a season of legendary works that honour two of the greatest, namely Sergei Diaghilev and (…)
Andris Liepa and Georgy Isaakyan – Bringing Diaghilev Back: Recreating the Russian Seasons
The former Bolshoi star, Andris Liepa, 52, returns to the London Coliseum from 8th to 19th July with a two-week programme in his itinerant series of Les Saisons Russes du XX1e Siècle. This will feature a triple bill of Liepa’s productions of Petrushka, Chopiniana and the Polovtsian Dances (from Borodin’s opera, Prince Igor) on 11th/12th July, followed by seven performances (…)
Master class with Andris Liepa
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British critics in Moscow Sats Theatre
On January 12, “The Golden Cockerel” visited the famous British ballet critics: Graham Watts – Member of the Critics’ Circle, Chairman of the Dance Section and National Dance Awards Committee; Caroline Jowett – Daily Express, Gerald Dowler – Dancing Times. Photos: Julia Ryzhenko
Les Saisons Russes du XXIe siècle: The Firebird, Shéhérazade. London Coliseum, July 18, 2013
The late rescheduling of programmes caused by Ilza Liepa’s unexpectedly needing a second operation on a knee injury and the lack of a replacement dancer meant no “Cléopâtre – Ida Rubinstein,” Patrick de Bana’s telling of the making of the Diaghilev ballet, on this, what should have been the second (…)
Review: Les Seisons Russes of XXI century – Programme 1 – London Coliseum
Reviewed by Graham Watts – Wednesday 17 July 2013 Performance reviewed: 16 July Hot on the heels of one Muscovite ballet company (the Stanislavsky) departing the London Coliseum, another arrives; since Andris Liepa’s Russian Seasons programme is constructed around the company that performs at the vast 6,000 seat State Kremlin (…)
Interview: Creating Cleopatra – Ida Rubinstein
Ilze Liepa as Cleopatra Photo: Valeria Komissarova Les Saisons Russes du XX1e Siecle, founded by former Bolshoi Ballet star turned ballet entrepreneur, Andris Liepa, returns to the London Coliseum in July (16 – 20th). The company are bringing three programmes, including five of Ballets Russes choreographer Mikhail Fokine’s greatest works (…)
