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 (…)
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 (…)
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
