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Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans in Gianni Di Gregorio enriching film

Citizens of the World (available now on Curzon Home Cinema) Cert (15) 92 mins, Italian with English subtitles – view by clicking here. Perhaps because actor and script writer Gianni Di Gregorio direct ...

andrew 215 views 0 likes Jun 24, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews two ballets to music by Igor Stravinsky on line

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 ...

andrew 151 views 0 likes Jun 23, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews the Royal Opera House’s The Magic Flute on line

THE MAGIC FLUTE, Mozart’s most successful opera, premiered in Vienna in September 1791. Ten weeks later he was dead. He was just 35. Harmony, truth, friendship, enlightenment and redemption: what more ...

andrew 194 views 0 likes Jun 22, 2020

Robert Tanitch reviews Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Creole Giselle on line

Giselle, the most famous of all ballets of the Romantic era, and one of the definitive statements on heartbreak, was conceived by Theophile Gautier as a showcase for the great Carlotta Grisi and premi ...

andrew 252 views 0 likes Jun 19, 2020