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La Scala's new production of La Bayadère (Nureyev) is available on the Rai Play site until January 8th. I'm not encountering a geoblock. The performance stars Nicoletta Manni, Timofej Andrijashenko and Maria Celeste Losa.
https://www.raiplay.it/programmi/labayadereteatroallascala
Apologies for not having posted sooner.
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At La Scala upcoming performances of La Bayadère have been rescheduled for the end of the month. As a result, a Dawson/Kylián/Kratz bill has been moved to next season.
https://teatroallascala.org/en/la-bayadere-and-triple-bill-cancelled-and-rescheduling.html
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The Hamburg Ballet has canceled four performances of The Sleeping Beauty.
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It was inevitable, but I am white with rage.
He is completely antithetical to the Moscow style. But it's what Vaziev loves: very tall, bendy kids who flop their arms and legs around, as long as they have banana feet.
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Both the Royal Opera House and the Paris Opera now offer paid streams. If the model proves to be successful, perhaps La Scala will follow, although there may be pushback to asking viewers to pay to watch productions filmed on the taxpayer's dime.
As far as I know, neither the Ratmansky Sleeping Beauty nor his Swan Lake were filmed during their runs at La Scala. Even before Manuel Legris assumed directorship of the company, the Ratmansky productions were dropped and the Nureyev versions were returned. (In the case of Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty this was even justified, since it premiered at La Scala and constitutes an important part of the company's history. That revival was filmed, televised and released on DVD.) Now that Legris is director, the Nureyev productions are firmly entrenched. Last month even Makarova's Bayadère was replaced with Nureyev's version.
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By my count, BelAir has released 21% of its Bolshoi cinemacasts since 2010. The Royal Ballet's average is a lot higher. Stature is one thing, but ABT's experience suggests that Ratmansky doesn't necessarily sell, and that may be true on DVD also.
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41 minutes ago, California said:
I wish Ratmansky were more generous in releasing his reconstructions on DVDs or Medici or paid downloads.
Ultimately this decision isn't entirely Ratmansky's to make. The recordings belong to BelAir Media, which chooses not to release most Bolshoi cinemacasts on DVD. (When the Bolshoi streamed a few performances early in the pandemic, it needed permission from BelAir to do it.) Ratmansky, you may recall, once posted a bootleg recording of his Paquita, which had been livestreamed by one administration of the Bavarian State Ballet, and then physically destroyed by the next.
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Trisha Brown x 100 features 100 student dancers and musicians of the Paris Conservatory performing her work.
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I'll have to disagree, because I find the line of more recent Vaganova graduates working at the Bolshoi to be very deficient, and Smirnova is worst of all, with her angular arms, spiky fingers and turned-in à la seconde.
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Just as a note, Ratmansky's Giselle (which I can't abide, personally
) has not yet been performed by the Bolshoi this season. The Grigorovich production has been performed in Moscow and on tour in Chelyabinsk, and that was the version Smirnova had danced most recently.
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The Vienna State Opera has canceled performances until January 5th, including a performance of Onegin on the 4th.
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Unfortunately, I don't know about the bonbons. In my limited experience I haven't seen the Mother Ginger tin revived as a holiday confection in Russia, which is not surprising given that most Russo-Soviet productions don't include the character.
If the PNB production alludes to the Sendak peacock, then indeed there is nothing inconsistent about introducing a cricket.
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My understanding was that the Mother Ginger dance did have roots in the candy store:
"The divertissement took inspiration from a well-known candy tin that sold in Russia in the 1890s, formed in the shape of a woman wearing a large skirt. Naturally, the tin opened at the bottom to reveal the bonbons inside."
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Not trying to be provocative here, but what does a cricket have to do with green tea? If the other sweets contain no references to animals, isn't it odd that one suddenly appears in the divertissement? It's not as though the audience also sees bulls, stallions or bears in this production.
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The Hamburg Ballet has canceled a performance of Neumeier's Christmas Oratorio today.
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Until January 30 the Royal Ballet is streaming the 2017 cinemacast of The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov. The cost is £10.
https://stream.roh.org.uk/packages/the-sleeping-beauty-2017/videos/the-sleeping-beauty-2017
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No Nutcracker from English National Ballet on new year's eve either.
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I also have little enthusiasm for Kim. He has a bag of tricks, but there is no shortage of that today. What I don't see is phrasing, fluidity, musicality or character. For that matter, I wasn't bowled over by the flash either.
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The Vienna State Opera will livestream its traditional New Year's Eve performance of Die Fledermaus, starting at noon Eastern.
https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/dc13590b-daf1-4f79-9a81-074487a3a1b9
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Well, I'm beside myself with anticipation. On January 14, God willing, the Vienna State Ballet will livestream Jerome Robbins' Other Dances, Lucinda Childs' Concerto and George Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer.
19:30 CET/1:30 pm Eastern. These are usually available on demand for 24 hours after the livestream.
https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/0a2c4bf1-21f0-4992-8635-fe0489d76e31
I have to say, I didn't know what to expect from Martin Schläpfer's leadership, especially after seeing his own ballets, but I'm sold on his programming.
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Another Don Quixote was canceled in Paris today.
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The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has also ended its Nutcracker run a few days early.
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Oh gosh. Get well soon, @Kathleen O'Connell!
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The Vienna State Opera is going a step further than the Met and is requiring a booster and a negative PCR test taken no more than 48 hours before a performance.
The rules are quite complex, but in a nutshell, patrons require 3 doses of vaccine (2 doses if the first dose was J&J) plus a PCR test, or proof of recovery from Covid in the last six months plus double vaccination plus a PCR test.
People medically exempt from vaccination must present a certificate of exemption and a negative PCR test.
Children under 12 require a negative test.
https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/service/ticket-sales/covid-19-information-from-december-27/
He is completely antithetical to the Moscow style. But it's what Vaziev loves: very tall, bendy kids who flop their arms and legs around, as long as they have banana feet.
) has not yet been performed by the Bolshoi this season. The Grigorovich production has been performed in Moscow and on tour in Chelyabinsk, and that was the version Smirnova had danced most recently.
19:30 CET/1:30 pm Eastern. These are usually available on demand for 24 hours after the livestream.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Affects the Ballet World
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Gosh, this must be a ticketing nightmare. First the company canceled performances on Jan 18-20, now those have been reinstated and the shows on Jan 13-16 have been canceled instead. Who gets to attend?