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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
More than 100 years after Europe first fell under the spell of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the magic is recaptured by Les Saison Russes’ appearances in France. This time, Diaghilev’s mission has been taken up by the world famous dancer and People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa. The programme includes pas (…)
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 (…)
