The Nutcracker! has long been a Christmas favourite, the ideal treat for little girls. It was not always so. The premiere in 1892 was badly received by the critics who disapproved of Tchaikovsky wasti ...
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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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SCOTTISH BALLET’S THE FAIRY’S KISS (YouTube for free) In 2017 five major ballet companies celebrated the life and work of Sir Kenneth Macmillan (1929-1992). Scottish Ballet resurrected his little perf ...
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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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