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Fujiwara Opera's Carmen 0n August 15&17th can be watched free with English subtitles. It was one of the first opera performances to be resumed in Japan after the COVID-19 pandemic.
This might be considered more of a dance performance, but Rameau's Les Indes Galantes at Bayerische Staatsoper, directed and choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. It can be watched for 3 months.
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15 hours ago, pherank said:
It's an interesting choice - I thought the company was doing mainly contemporary choreography. Is that correct?
Ballett am Rhein has just got a new artistic director Demis Volpi, former artist in residence at Stuttgart Ballet and a very talented choreographer. His works are contemporary, but also he is a great storyteller, his Krabat was a masterpiece and also he does a lot of collaborations with opera.
Many of the artists at Ballet Am Rhein moved to Vienna State Ballet where former AD Martin Schlapfer went, so the majority of the dancers are new people from all over.
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Andrey Merkuriev, also working under contract (former Leading Soloist and also danced at Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky) will be the Chief Choreographer (Artistic Director) at Komi Opera and Ballet Theater, where he started his career. The current AD is Marianna Ryzhkina former Principal of Bolshoi.
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Simone Messmer is now a member of Ballett am Rhine in Dusseldorf, Germany.
https://www.operamrhein.de/de_DE/ensemble-und-mitarbeiter#taenzerinnen-und-taenzer
https://www.operamrhein.de/en_EN/person/simone-messmer.216564
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Polish National Ballet has finished their run of Manuel Legris' Le Corsaire successfully.
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http://www.balletnews.co.uk/the-national-ballet-of-canada-2020-21-season-roster/
Press release of joiners and leavers, promotions.
Scott McKenzie previously of Vienna State Ballet joins, and 2 apprentices join as corps de ballet.
Principal Dancer Francesco Gabriele Frola becomes full time Leading Principal at English National Ballet and becomes a guest at NBoC. Principal Dancer Elena Lobsanova and First Soloist Hannah Fischer have departed The National Ballet of Canada to join Miami City Ballet as Principal and Principal Soloist.
Jimmy Coleman, Nicholas Rose and Ethan Watts have departed to join The Royal Danish Ballet, Wayne McGregor’s Reset 2020 and The Royal Swedish Ballet.
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Perm Ballet will be live streaming La Bayadere on September 19th.
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6 minutes ago, Helene said:
Are they doing any streaming or TV broadcasts, @naomikage? I know that a lot of figure skating is broadcast. I hope that at least some arts performances can be, so that elderly people and others who can't attend in person for health reasons for themselves and the protection of their families can stay tied to culture, especially since isolation is so difficult for many people.
They are doing some streaming. Asami Maki Ballet did a live streaming of their gala in August for 3000 yen (which is approximately 30 dollars). National Ballet of Japan's Don Quixote will also be streamed for 2500 yen, with bonus features which are live streaming of rehearsal and a Q&A session with the artistic director Miyako Yoshida, which is in association with a broadcaster. K-Ballet is also planning to do some streaming for their coming Le Corsaire and Nutcracker and will also show the recording in the cinemas.
Kabuki is broadcasted almost every week on terrestrial television.
it seems ballet is doing quite well for tickets sales, but opera and Kabuki have more elderly audience and doing not so well in terms of box office. Occasionally there are reports of a staff having a fever and performance cancelled. (in many cases, the fever turns out as not COVID-19, after testing but they cancel just in case.)
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On 9/5/2020 at 4:00 AM, Buddy said:
Thank you, Naomikage. Are there many performers on stage during a Kabuki performance ? What seating arrangement did the National Ballet use when you were there ?
Yes there are quite many performers on stage at a Kabuki performance, and not only actors but musicians and singers as well. They perform shorter programs. (usually there are 2 performances a day, and a triple-bill format but now, 4 performances a day in double bill with reduced prices) But the ticket sales are not good as the majority of the audience are elderly people, and they refrain from going out.
Almost all performances here are carried out with an empty seat next, so the capacity is reduced to 50%. As a result, we recently had the box office opening for Don Quixote (National Ballet of Japan) and the tickets for the two popular principal ballerinas (Ayako Ono, Yui Yonezawa) performances were sold out with the subscribers. National Ballet of Japan plans to have live orchestra, but many other Japanese companies will do with taped performance to reduce risk. I wonder what they will do with Nutcracker, as usually they have a child choir.
As for Opera, they are planning to have a "new normal" directed version of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream in October, with socially distancing on stage. But they will have a child choir.
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/productions/opera/a-midsummer-nights-dream-2020.html
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The roster has been updated, and several names have disappeared such as Korsuntsev, Baimuradov and Shcheglov (they appear on the coach's section so I guess they now have retired), as well as Gumerova and Kolegova and corps de ballet Chloë Réveillon.
https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/ballet/troupe/
https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/company/ballet/coaches/
Nikita Korneyev and Vsevolod Mayevsky seems to be promoted to coryphee.
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Hideo Fukagawa, one of the first internationally acclaimed Japanese dancers, has passed away at the age of 73 by pneumonia following a long illness.
https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/115860 (Japanese)
Fukagawa gained a bronze medal at Varna in 1965, and silver medal in 1970. Also he won a silver medal and Nijinsky Prize at Moscow International Competition in 1969, when Baryshnikov won the Gold medal. (recorded on the DVD World's Young Ballet)
He danced at Komische Oper Berlin, Stuttgart Ballet and as a principal at Bayerische Staatsballett, and returned to Japan in 1980. Since he has been choreographing and teaching, mainly in Nagoya and sometimes creating pieces for John Cranko School. Also he worked as a jury at various international competitions such as Prix de Lausanne, Jackson and Varna. But as he had not been choreographing much for the big companies in Tokyo, he did not hace the fame he deserved. (a beautiful piece called Soiree de Ballet was performed at the National Ballet of Japan a couple of years ago)
Some of his performance clips,
He had gained the name of the Flying Japanese then.
May he rest in peace.
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Thank you Buddy. This was a sweet production. Unfortunately one of the staff got COVID-19 positive and the last two performances were cancelled, but no dancers have tested positive and they are back in the studio preparing for the new season which will start in mid October.
It is the first season for the new AD Miyako Yoshida former Royal Ballet principal. It was supposed to open with Peter Wright's Swan Lake that will enter the repertoire, but for travel restrictions, it was postponed and they will do Don Quixote instead. Still, a full length classical ballet.
Japan is still struggling, we have like 600 hundred new cases every day, but performances are slowly resuming with social distancing measures. Kabuki has been back since August.
But because of the travel ban. many tours have been cancelled, such as Bolshoi Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Bejart Ballet Lausanne.
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Unfortunately the Bolshoi Japan tour expected this November~December is cancelled.
https://www.japanarts.co.jp/en/news/p5214/
QuoteWe regret to inform you that, after through discussions with the Bolshoi Theatre, Bolshoi Ballet Japan Tour 2020 (a total of 13 performances in Tokyo, Otsu, Maebashi, and Osaka), scheduled for November 23 to December 6, has been unavoidably cancelled in view of the international circumstance as well as the domestic situation resulting from the worldwide spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
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12 hours ago, volcanohunter said:
That's interesting. Was an explanation given for why the "white swan" adage was omitted while the "black swan" pas de deux was included?
Not at the performance, but the dress rehearsal was reported on local TV news on the day of the performance and the AD mentioned about the social distancing changes such as the 4 little swans. (By the way this performance's Odette/Odile and the Prince are a married couple in real life)
It is an outdoor performance where the weather changes quickly and temperature may drop low so it is quite a short version, 2 hours including intermission.
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Ballet Chambre Ouest (of Japan, Mariko Sasaki of Royal Ballet is from this school) holds a 2 week open air performance in the mountains every year called Kiyosato Field Ballet, and this year all the performances are Swan Lake with a slightly social distanced one. (no 2 act pas de deux, 4 little swans not holding hands).
They are streaming a full length performance of the opening night, with Ayako Ono and Yudai Fukuoka of National Ballet of Japan last night which I saw live and was fabulous with the nature surrounding the stage. Until August 8th.
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National Ballet of Japan has successfully premiered their new ballet for Children "Ryuguu the Turtle Princess"
There were many social distancing measures at the theatre, but as you can see by the clip, it is quite a large scale production and has some partnering, I did see 2 performances, and the concept, dramaturgy and costumes, sets were excellent. And there were some Noh (Japanese traditional theatre) and Kabuki influence which gives depth to the story and visuals although this is a production aimed for children and families. I am sure it will be very interesting and intriguing for adults as well.
https://twitter.com/nntt_ballet/status/1287986575343644677?s=20
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National Ballet of Japan will open its doors on July 24th with a new ballet for children, "Ryuuguu The Turtle Princess" based on a Japanese folk tale.
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/productions/ballet/ballet-for-children-the-turtle-princess.html
It is a full length contemporary ballet with intermission (2 hours long) and will be performed at the Opera theatre with reduced seating.
Here are the audience guidelines for prevention. The tickets were already on sale before the pandemic, but they asked the customers to return their tickets and put the tickets on sale later to meet the seating guidelines. (one empty seat on front and sides)
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/all/important-notice-our-prevention-plan-and-request.html
The New National Theatre has already started with the drama performances last week in the Playhouse.
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22 hours ago, Buddy said:
The United Kingdom seems to be the most assertively determined nation, in relation to reviving the arts, that my limited viewing has noticed. I wish it much success.
There had been news of many job losses in the theatre world in UK these couple of days in spite of the government emergency packages, Such as The Royal Opera House laying off all their entire casual staff (including stage technicians and wardrobe staff) Such a sad situation.
QuoteThe Royal Opera House has cut its entire team of casual staff, as pressure mounts for the UK government’s emergency arts fund to be quickly rolled out after an estimated 3,000 job losses in the sector.
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The Australian Ballet's Swan Lake by Greame Murphy is streamed via Sydney Opera House's channel.
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Benois de la Dance is streaming their previous gala performances for 48 hours.
PROGRAMME
S. Prokofiev. Duet from CINDERELLA,
choreography by RUDOLF NUREYEV,
performed by soloists of the Paris Opera Ballet
DOROTHE GILBERT (Benois de la Danse nominee) and
HUGO MARCHAND (Benois de la Danse laureate)I.Brahms. Solo from RÄTTIKA,
choreography by MATS EK (Benois de la Danse laureate),
performed by soloist of Ballet on Rhein
YUKO KATOE.Sati. TROIS GNOCIENNES,
choreography by HANS VAN MANEN (Benois de la Danse laureate),
performed by soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre
ULIANA LOPATKINA (Benois de la Danse laureate) and
ANDREY YERMAKOV.
Piano: ALEXEI MELENTIEVIt can be streamed for 48 hours.
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Live from Lincoln Center: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Featuring a star-studded cast including Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, John Cullum and New York City Ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck.
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Paris Opera Ballet will return to Garnier in the fall with classics and creations by renowned choreographers, despite the work taking place there until the end of the year, announced the dance director Aurélie Dupont.
During the renovation work, the dancers will be on the proscenium, that is to say the front stage which will cover the orchestra pit.
For the classical, spread over twenty performances from October 2, "there will be essentially solos and pas-de-deux, danced by the stars, the first dancers and the first dancers of the Opera", she indicated.
On the contemporary side, from November 5, the corps de ballet will dance 17 representations of four creations by contemporary choreographers like Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet.
The Lacotte creation"Le Rouge et le Noir" was postponed "in October-November 2021," said Ms. Dupont, adding that the ballet "Mayerling" which was to enter the repertoire in May was moved to 2022.
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Obituary in New York Times.
Nikolai Fadeyechev, Elegant Bolshoi Dancer, Is Dead at 87
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/arts/dance/nikolai-fadeyechev-dead.html?smid=tw-share
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SFB's Gala is now available till July 6th.
Bolshoi 2020/2021 Season
in Bolshoi Ballet
Posted
More promotions at Bolshoi
https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/ballet/soloist/
Olga Marchenkova promoted to Leading Soloist
Egor Gerashenko promoted to First Soloist (straight from corps de ballet)