Juliet Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Covering a couple of parts ATM..... But often gets thrown in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Extensive media coverage through previews and reviews of Die Sieben Todsuenden/ Seven Heavenly Sins which premiered in Stuttgart on Saturday as the first co-production of Stuttgart Ballet, Stuttgart Opera and Stuttgart Theatre for more than 20 years. Not that a co-production in itself would trigger this extent of media coverage through newspapers up and down the country plus television, I’d rather think this comes as Peaches features prominently in the production. I haven’t seen the production nor am I going to; based on what I’ve read, the production is split largely into two parts. Part 1 – based on Brecht’s work and transferred into a boxring, Anna comes in four different characters (a female actor – Josephine Koehler, a male dancer – Louis Stiens, who has also provided the choreography for the production, an older version of Anna – Melinda Witham, and Peaches). Anna’s family is represented through four referees. Part 2 – the boxring has disappeared, and Peaches performs a number of songs in relation to the seven sins (I guess the word “heavenly” in the work’s title is based on a comment that she made that she doesn’t consider these seven aspects to be sins), complete with matching outfits. Opinions in previews and reviews range from rather dismissive to jubilant, others highlight the fact that the piece will have attracted new audiences or that the audience on Saturday reacted with prolonged ovations. Based on the variety of opinions, I am not providing any links but a search for “Peaches Stuttgart” will provide plenty of them (a word of caution – the work comes with an age guideline of 16+ years, and some of the pictures or excerpts in some of the previews and reviews confirm why this is the case). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 There's a Part 3, Duck, where 64 year old Melinda Witham, character soloist with Stuttgart Ballet, is seen as the old Anna who, with some minimalistic Ausdruckstanz moves, looks back on a life of fighting for her rights, tired but proud. It's only some minutes long, set to "The unanswered question" by Charles Ives. There is lots of dancing throughout the evening, done by choreographer Louis Stiens and actress Josephine Köhler - ballet virtuosity, modern moves and even Voguing for the Peaches songs. I had no interest in Electroclash or Peaches before, but I thought it was a great evening, acting/singing/dancing in a meaningful, intelligent fusion. Well, lots of dirty words, but hey, great beats... :-) The whole performance comes with surtitles in English and German. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 Guests for the Ballet week at Bavarian State Ballet: Ashley Bouder from NYCB in Rubies/Jewels on 11. April Natalia Osipova as Tatyana in Cranko’s Onegin on 13. April Ivan Vasiliev as Petrucchio in Cranko’s Taming of the Shrew on 14. April Anna Laudere and Edvin Revazov for Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias (actually they will dance all performances, so no Munich couple will have danced in the main parts) Booking starts on Monday 10.00 CET 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 50 minutes ago, Angela said: Anna Laudere and Edvin Revazov for Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias (actually they will dance all performances, so no Munich couple will have danced in the main parts) I saw this pairing the other week at Munich: do we know whether this was because there was no possibility to prepare a Munich pairing or at the insistence of Neumeier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanartus Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Angela said: Guests for the Ballet week at Bavarian State Ballet: Ashley Bouder from NYCB in Rubies/Jewels on 11. April Natalia Osipova as Tatyana in Cranko’s Onegin on 13. April Ivan Vasiliev as Petrucchio in Cranko’s Taming of the Shrew on 14. April Anna Laudere and Edvin Revazov for Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias (actually they will dance all performances, so no Munich couple will have danced in the main parts) Booking starts on Monday 10.00 CET Beg borrow or steal tickets for Osipova - her interpretation is thrilling and not a little disturbing too. A very brave take on the role. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 2 hours ago, Lizbie1 said: I saw this pairing the other week at Munich: do we know whether this was because there was no possibility to prepare a Munich pairing or at the insistence of Neumeier? Sadly, one half of the Munich couple was injured before the first performance. And Shklyarov was supposed to do Armand, but he withdraw already weeks before. Yet it's strange not to have a second or third couple, if you intend to put the ballet on stage, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share Posted February 9, 2019 Casting for "La Sylphide" by Bournonville/Frank Andersen at Berlin State Ballet: Maria Kochetkova and Daniil Simkin on Mar 1, 12, 22 + Apr 22 Polina Semionova and Alejandro Virelles on Mar 3, Apr 4 + May 26 Luciana Voltolini and Marian Walter on Apr 26 + May 31 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 The next season at Hamburg Ballet is online here Premieres: The Glass Menagerie by Neumeier, his old Hamlet revised, and Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Munich's Bavarian StaatsBallet are live streaming the Jewels performance on 11 April which stars guest Ashley Bouder from NYCB in Rubies. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 (edited) 15 hours ago, Don Q Fan said: Munich's Bavarian StaatsBallet are live streaming the Jewels performance on 11 April which stars guest Ashley Bouder from NYCB in Rubies. Realise that many hereabouts will not have seen Ashely Bouder - even though she is in the senior stretch of her career. Here she can be seen this week dancing in Peter Martins' production of Sleeping Beauty. I must confess I'm not usually a fan of Martins' full length offerings - but this one is an exception. It is one of my favourites of this masterwork - and the fact that it has only one interval ensures that the story is told so clearly and MOST IMPORTANTLY the original tempi are restored - and that makes such elements as Aurora's birthday and wedding truly celebratory. Also love the variation for the Ivans. I well remember on the opening night of this production - some thirty years ago - it was the first real indication of what would come from a then very young Daniel Ulbrecht - and as for the late Albert Evans' cat ... Well, it still burns bright in my mind's eye ... as does Merrill Ashley incendiary Carabosse - up there with Mason's. Edited February 16, 2019 by Bruce Wall 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 For ease of reference Hamburg Ballet have a PDF calendar on one page covering the 19/20 performances! https://www.hamburgballett.de/downloads/kalender/spielzeit_19_20.pdf Marvellous - I wish all companies did these. Looking forward to Monday now as Dutch National Ballet announce their 19/20 season!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine0308 Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 On 09/02/2019 at 09:35, Angela said: Casting for "La Sylphide" by Bournonville/Frank Andersen at Berlin State Ballet: Maria Kochetkova and Daniil Simkin on Mar 1, 12, 22 + Apr 22 Polina Semionova and Alejandro Virelles on Mar 3, Apr 4 + May 26 Luciana Voltolini and Marian Walter on Apr 26 + May 31 I will be at the rehearsal today and have a ticket for March1st. Kotchetkova and Simkin...can't wait. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Two principal dancers and a soloist will leave Hamburg Ballet after this season: the names of Carolina Agüero, Karen Azatyan and Dario Franconi have disappeard from next year's roster. Alina Cojocaru is still listed as principal guest artist, but no other new names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 26 minutes ago, Angela said: Two principal dancers and a soloist will leave Hamburg Ballet after this season: the names of Carolina Agüero, Karen Azatyan and Dario Franconi have disappeard from next year's roster. Alina Cojocaru is still listed as principal guest artist, but no other new names. Thanks so - AS EVER - for this news, Angela. It will be interesting to see who they get to dance the last movement of the BSQ - as Azatyan danced all that I saw. SUCH a magnificent work ... and so rewarding to see a house that size brimming to the rafters with dedicated ballet goers for such a programme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 Dresden Semperoper Ballet has published their next season. Two premieres: Pina Bausch's production of the Gluck dance opera "Iphigenie auf Tauris" and a triple bill with Balanchine: Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Hans van Manen: Kleines Requiem, and the world premiere of David Dawson's "For last songs" by Richard Strauss (which is a little miracle as the heirs of Richard Strauss normally forbid to use any of his music that was not written for dance). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 23 minutes ago, Angela said: ...and the world premiere of David Dawson's "For last songs" by Richard Strauss (which is a little miracle as the heirs of Richard Strauss normally forbid to use any of his music that was not written for dance). Doesn’t Strauss fall out of copyright next year? Or am I muddled? (Copyright really confuses me!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 YES, you're right, in September 2019 - I forgot, thank you! Copyright lasts 70 years in Germany. Wow, they are fast at Dresden 👏. I guess we will see lots of Zarathustras and Four last Songs in the next years... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnstar Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 1 hour ago, Angela said: YES, you're right, in September 2019 - I forgot, thank you! Copyright lasts 70 years in Germany. Wow, they are fast at Dresden 👏. I guess we will see lots of Zarathustras and Four last Songs in the next years... I'm now thinking about which Strauss operas could be turned into ballets. I can imagine both Rosenkavalier & Arabella as ballets, Adiane not so much (they are my 3 favourites). I'm amusing myself by fantasy casting a Rosenkavalier ballet (with RB dancers, as I've not seen any of the German ballet companies). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 12 minutes ago, Dawnstar said: I'm now thinking about which Strauss operas could be turned into ballets. I can imagine both Rosenkavalier & Arabella as ballets, Adiane not so much (they are my 3 favourites). I'm amusing myself by fantasy casting a Rosenkavalier ballet (with RB dancers, as I've not seen any of the German ballet companies). Graeme Murphy did a ballet for Bavarian State Ballet in 2005 based on Der Rosenkavalier, but not using music by Strauss. It was called The Silver Rose and was subsequently performed by The Australian Ballet in 2010. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnstar Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, toursenlair said: Graeme Murphy did a ballet for Bavarian State Ballet in 2005 based on Der Rosenkavalier, but not using music by Strauss. It was called The Silver Rose and was subsequently performed by The Australian Ballet in 2010. That's interesting to know, though I'm not sure I'd want to see any version of Rosenkavalier without Strauss's glorious music. I've just Googled it & see it had a male dancer as Octavian, doubtless necessary in order to have pdds. I can't say that the production looks to be very 18th century so presumably, like so many productions of the opera, it got an update. (I prefer the full 18th century white wigs, breeches & hoop skirts option myself - okay maybe not the hoop skirts for a ballet!) Edited February 20, 2019 by Dawnstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 Youri Vamos made a ballet called "Lucidor" in the 1990s, using Hofmannsthal's novella which later became the opera Arabella. The music was by Glazunov. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Dawnstar: I rather think you're right on the hooped skirts. I think it was in the first Acosta and Friends bill that Zenaida Yanowsky danced a solo to one of the Monteverdi 1610 Vespers motets, wearing just the hooped underpinning over a shift of some kind. All very odd, with the hoops having a life of their own, and not my favourite Yanowsky memory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) I wonder now if some European company will be able to perform Balanchine's Vienna Waltzes???? Perhaps Hamburg??? Edited February 21, 2019 by Bruce Wall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Allen Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 1 hour ago, Bruce Wall said: I wonder now if some European company will be able to perform Balanchine's Vienna Waltzes???? Perhaps Hamburg??? Funny, Bruce, I was wondering exactly the same thing! Vienna Waltzes is one of my favourite later Balanchine works and I would dearly like to see it in the Royal's rep. Copyright in the UK is that it expires 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the last of the creators of the work dies. Approval from the Balanchine Trust can never be taken for granted but the current strength of the Royal Ballet would, I think, remove any obstacles. Here's hoping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 More news from Dresden Semperoper Ballet: Artistic Director Aaron Watkin will stay until 2023, his contract was renewed by Opera Director Peter Theiler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, Douglas Allen said: Funny, Bruce, I was wondering exactly the same thing! Vienna Waltzes is one of my favourite later Balanchine works and I would dearly like to see it in the Royal's rep. Copyright in the UK is that it expires 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the last of the creators of the work dies. Approval from the Balanchine Trust can never be taken for granted but the current strength of the Royal Ballet would, I think, remove any obstacles. Here's hoping! I share your admiration for this work, Douglas. Perhaps you need to whisper such into KO'H's ear ... as I don't think - given his stated priorities as outlined in his last BA interview .... that it would happen at the RB of its own volition. Something tells me that it is much more likely elsewhere in Europe. Edited February 21, 2019 by Bruce Wall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Allen Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 37 minutes ago, Bruce Wall said: I don't think - given his stated priorities as outlined in his last BA interview .... that it would happen at the RB of its own volition. Something tells me that it is much more likely elsewhere in Europe. Sadly, Bruce, I think you're right. Sometimes (i.e. quite a lot of the time) I can't understand some of Kevin O'Hare's preferences and strategy. My comment above was more of a personal preference/fantasy wish than a reasonable expectation. Still, there's always Frankenstein and perhaps Raven Girl still to look forward to... As far as Europe is concerned, Paris has the dancers at the moment...? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betterankles Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Serait-ce la Mort (Vier Letzte Lieder) choregraphy by Bejart, and another to the same Richard Strauss music, by Hans van Manen, or is it Rudi van Dantzig. Both beautiful... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) 10 hours ago, Bruce Wall said: I wonder now if some European company will be able to perform Balanchine's Vienna Waltzes???? Perhaps Hamburg??? Exactly what I was thinking as I was bitterly disappointed when NYCB were going to perform it in Paris but then it was pulled because of the music. I saw Vienna Waltzes once in new York and absolutely loved it. And yes I agree it would be a perfect fit for Hamburg given their recent performances of the Liebeslieder Waltzes and Brahms Schoenberg Quartet. Here's hoping🤞🤞 Edited February 21, 2019 by Don Q Fan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 A documentary has been shown on German TV about John Neumeier for his 80th birthday you can watch it here, albeit mostly in german. https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/John-Neumeier-Unterwegs,doku1370.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 24, 2019 Author Share Posted February 24, 2019 https://www.dw.com/en/choreographer-john-neumeier-creativity-is-a-gift-but-hard-work-too/a-47628872 This is a shorter video for his birthday, but in English. It's at the bottom of the page. German newspapers are full of congratulations today, there's a huge Birthday Gala underway at Hamburg right now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted February 24, 2019 Share Posted February 24, 2019 Yes I saw there is gala but did you see the ticket PRICES😯😯😯 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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