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Battle of the pointes: Grishko and the threat of plastic
Nikolay Grishko runs the company he founded by in the late 1980s after accompanying his professional dancer-wife Tamara during a French tour: Russian dancers were bringing ballet shoes from theatre...
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79-year-old Montserrat Caballé in hospital after a stroke and breaking her arm
Montserrat Caballé, now 79, suffered a stroke while in Russia and, while briefly losing consciousness, fell and broke an arm. She was flown last Saturday to the Sant Pau hospital in Barcelona where she...
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Great Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya dies at 86
Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya has died today, December 11, at the age of 86. Vishnevskaya was born in St Petersberg (Leningrad) 25 October 1926, and cast out by her parents at six weeks. She...
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Russian virtuoso guitar player has all his fingers amputated
Alexey Zimakov, the winner of the 1991 American Guitar Association Competition in Miami, and a virtuoso player has had all the fingers on both hands amputated after contracting severe frostbite in his...
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Mud will be slung tonight: Tsiskaridze and Volochkova expose prostitution at...
Ex–Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Volochkova and current Bolshoi star and stirrer Nikolai Tsiskaridze have been on Russian television to add even more mud to an already murky pond. The Bolshoi’s general...
View ArticleNacho Duato, tradition and revolution at the Mikhailovsky Ballet
Ever since Duato breezed into the “dusty and creaky” Mikhailovsky, he has been tearing the place up. “No need for the classical movements here,” Duato tells a dancer in rehearsal. “Forget the port des...
View ArticleDoodles in the Bolshoi archives
The death of a tyrant, abduction by the secret police and insight into the minds of some of the greatest composers in history are all part of the details that Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre has discovered in...
View ArticleIvan Vasiliev to guest with English National Ballet as a tribute to Roland Petit
Bolshoi Ballet’s Ivan Vasiliev will dance Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort with English National Ballet tomorrow evening, July 22. He is partnered with English National Ballet First Artist Jia...
View ArticleNewsweek finds out what makes Anna Netrebko tick… and why she hates ‘toska’
The papers are full of interviews with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, especially during this, the month of her 40th birthday. They are not exactly carbon copies of each other, but very similar: plans...
View ArticleLa Scala’s Raymonda “is a true banquet: pomp, circumstance, and an entire...
The Financial Times visited Milan’s historic theatre to witness Sergei Vikharev’s reconstruction of Raymonda – a production which is sending ripples of interest and excitement around the ballet...
View ArticleNacho Duato, tradition and revolution at the Mikhailovsky Ballet
Ever since Duato breezed into the “dusty and creaky” Mikhailovsky, he has been tearing the place up. “No need for the classical movements here,” Duato tells a dancer in rehearsal. “Forget the port des...
View ArticleDoodles in the Bolshoi archives
The death of a tyrant, abduction by the secret police and insight into the minds of some of the greatest composers in history are all part of the details that Russia’s Bolshoi Theatre has discovered in...
View ArticleIvan Vasiliev to guest with English National Ballet as a tribute to Roland Petit
Bolshoi Ballet’s Ivan Vasiliev will dance Roland Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort with English National Ballet tomorrow evening, July 22. He is partnered with English National Ballet First Artist Jia...
View ArticleNewsweek finds out what makes Anna Netrebko tick… and why she hates ‘toska’
The papers are full of interviews with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, especially during this, the month of her 40th birthday. They are not exactly carbon copies of each other, but very similar: plans...
View ArticleLa Scala’s Raymonda “is a true banquet: pomp, circumstance, and an entire...
The Financial Times visited Milan’s historic theatre to witness Sergei Vikharev’s reconstruction of Raymonda – a production which is sending ripples of interest and excitement around the ballet...
View ArticleBattle of the pointes: Grishko and the threat of plastic
Nikolay Grishko runs the company he founded by in the late 1980s after accompanying his professional dancer-wife Tamara during a French tour: Russian dancers were bringing ballet shoes from theatre...
View Article79-year-old Montserrat Caballé in hospital after a stroke and breaking her arm
Montserrat Caballé, now 79, suffered a stroke while in Russia and, while briefly losing consciousness, fell and broke an arm. She was flown last Saturday to the Sant Pau hospital in Barcelona where she...
View ArticleGreat Russian soprano Galina Vishnevskaya dies at 86
Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya has died today, December 11, at the age of 86. Vishnevskaya was born in St Petersberg (Leningrad) 25 October 1926, and cast out by her parents at six weeks. She...
View ArticleRussian virtuoso guitar player has all his fingers amputated
Alexey Zimakov, the winner of the 1991 American Guitar Association Competition in Miami, and a virtuoso player has had all the fingers on both hands amputated after contracting severe frostbite in his...
View ArticleMud will be slung tonight: Tsiskaridze and Volochkova expose prostitution at...
Ex-Bolshoi dancer Anastasia Volochkova and current Bolshoi star and stirrer Nikolai Tsiskaridze have been on Russian television to add even more mud to an already murky pond. The Bolshoi’s general...
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