One of my earliest ballet memories was seeing Margot Fonteyn dance Princess Aurora in the notoriously difficult Rose Adage – one of classical ballet’s great moments. Courted by four suitors, Fonteyn w ...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber has done much better than this; but everybody will want his Cinderella to succeed. It was meant to open in 2020. It has had a terribly bumpy and much delayed opening, all due to Co ...
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY has a special place in Royal Ballet’s collective heart. It was this ballet, which re-opened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II. Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann sta ...
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Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, directed by Mariusz Trelinski and conducted by Valery Gergiev, were performed as a double-bill at The Metropolitan, New York in 2015. Total ...
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