Hints and tips:
...Birmingham Royal Ballet’s ode to the festive season returns, with Tchaikovsky’s gloriously Christmassy score....
...another and, in Ersan Montag’s new production for the Flemish National Opera, Smee finds himself running a waffle stand inside a museum after hearing a rousing speech from Congolese independence leader Patrice...
...Duo2015 is a reworked version of Duo, which Forsythe created for the Frankfurt Ballet in 1996....
...The priestess heroine is here a schoolteacher organising underground resistance for reasons best known to directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier....
...Better to see the pair’s Ballets Confidentiels, impromptu performances staged all over Paris....
...This year produced nothing as revealing: the same company’s courageous attempt at the original Paris version of Les Vêpres siciliennes excised the ballet music and went off at half-cock....
...The trend has now reached France, where the Paris Opera Ballet’s Petipa-inspired Don Quixote is followed this month by two reinventions of the ballet: Rui Lopes Graça’s for the Ballet du Rhin, and José Montalvo...
...Have ballet’s superproductions lost the plot?...
...On March 30 Patrice Bart, who choreographed this version in 1996, will bow out after more than 50 years with the company, first as a star dancer and later as ballet-master-in-chief....
...The costumes, from the reproduction of the Little Dancer’s tutu to an eccentric take on bustle gowns in the second act, are charmingly sophisticated, a trademark of the Paris Opera, but the world Patrice...
...NantesThe Makropulos Affair Janácek’s late opera opens at the Théâtre Graslin in Nantes on Thursday in a new Angers Nantes Opera production directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser....
...New YorkCorella Ballet On Wednesday, Angel Corella’s newly formed Corella Ballet Castilla y León, the first fully classical ballet company in Spain, has its American debut at City Center....
...LondonIl turco in Italia Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s wacky production of Rossini’s comic opera returns to Covent Garden on Saturday, where it premiered in 2005....
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