Angela Posted March 15, 2014 Author Share Posted March 15, 2014 The live stream of "La Bayadère" from Bavarian State Ballet starts today at 19.30 CET at staatsoper.tv English Information here , Cast here 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aruna S Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I've just finished watching the live stream and am a little confused by the final apotheosis. It looked as if the souls of Nikiya, Solor and Gamzatti are headed for paradise together. Gamzatti, the murderess or accomplice to murder, is worthy of this? Hopefully I have got it all wrong but then who is the third person? Bewitched (by Lucia Lacarra), bothered and bewildered am I. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanR Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I was really confused too! Great dancing from Lucia & Marlon though. Susan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coated Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 It was definitely worth watching for Lucia Lacarra, and the Munich version would win the Outrageous Hats award by a mile. Impressed with the quality of the free live stream, bravo Munich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 I've just finished watching the live stream and am a little confused by the final apotheosis. It looked as if the souls of Nikiya, Solor and Gamzatti are headed for paradise together. Gamzatti, the murderess or accomplice to murder, is worthy of this? Hopefully I have got it all wrong but then who is the third person?  No, you've got it right, according to the summary in the programme we see "Solor, Nikija and Gamzatti united in the image of eternal light". That is the end to the love story, some sort of transcendental menage à trois.  Question: what's the Outrageous Hats award?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 17, 2014 Author Share Posted March 17, 2014 At Stuttgart Ballet, the story ballet "Krabat" by Demis Volpi broke all records with an attendance of 40.000 in one year, a huge success for a new creation. The premiere was in March 2013, the piece had 24 sold-out performances until last week and a "Ballet in the Park" live screening in front of the Opera House. "Krabat" is based on a youth book by Otfried Preussler, with music by Peteris Vasks, Philip Glass and Krzysztof Penderecki. The story tells about a young apprentice at a mill in the 18th century who gets involved with black magic and is rescued by the love of a girl. The production was supposed to be a ballet for the younger audience (not for children), but eventually everybody wanted to see it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I wish Stuttgart Ballet had brought Krabat to Sadler's Wells last autumn. It sounds very different to anything which we have seen in the UK ballet-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 This is a most interesting interview with John Neumeier:  http://www.youtube.c...?v=k6ZRcM71i-M\  It was taken very recently in Moscow where he was rehearsing his ‘Lady of the Camellias’. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 21, 2014 Author Share Posted March 21, 2014 The next season is online at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden (scroll down on the left). The dance performances are:  - Hamburg Ballet in October with Neumeier’s Shakespeare Dances and his Giselle  - the Mariinsky in December with Raymonda, Swan Lake, Nutcracker and a Gala with Concerto DSCH/Ratmansky, Infra/McGregor and Scotch Symphony/Balanchine  - Norwegian National Ballet in February with Cygne/Daniel Proietto, Lamentate/Jo Strømgren, Resin/Alexander Ekman, Vespertine/Liam Scarlett  - Sasha Waltz in June with Orfeo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Next season at Dresden Semperoper Ballet:  - "Tristan and Yseult", a creation by David Dawson with music by Szymon Brzoska - "Impressing the Czar" by William Forsythe ... and a wide repertoire with classics like Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Dawson's Giselle, Romeo and Juliet by Stijn Celis, Double and Triple Bills. The company will be touring to St. Pölten/Austria, Barcelona and Antwerp. Polina Semionova is listed as a guest principal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Director Reid Anderson has extended his contract at Stuttgart Ballet until 2018. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Vienna has announced its 2014-15 season: http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/spielplan_next/Spielplan.de.php?month=9&year=2014&mode=next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) Hamburg Ballet Kameliendame casts for the 18th of May are finally available on the company web-site:  Matinee  Marguerite Gautier: Laudere, Armand Duval: RevazovManon Lescaut: Agüero, Des Grieux: TruschPrudence Duvernoy: RÃos, Gaston Rieux: BalloneOlympia: Chinellato, Count N.: TselikovMr. Duval: Franconi, Nanina: Vracaric, The Duke: Clark  Evening  Marguerite Gautier: Alina Cojocaru as Guest, Armand Duval: RiabkoManon Lescaut: Azzoni, Des Grieux: BubenÃcekPrudence Duvernoy: Heylmann, Gaston Rieux: WestOlympia: Chinellato, Count N.: TselikovMr. Duval: Jung, Nanina: Vracaric, The Duke: Franconi Edited March 31, 2014 by annamicro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 Darrel Toulon, Ballet Director and chief choreographer at Graz, Austria, will leave the opera house after next season. His successor is Jörg Weinöhl, a longtime dancer with Martin Schläpfer in all his companies at Bern, Mainz and Düsseldorf, now a freelance choreographer. The company at Graz has 20 dancers.  At a press conference yesterday at Munich, new Ballet Director Igor Zelensky said that he will move to Munich with his family, and that he wants to learn German. No news about his plans yet. As Munich has already a problem with Valery Gergiev, designated chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and under attack for supporting Putin's political positions, of course Zelensky was asked about the Crimea crisis. He said he hopes for a negotiated solution, and that art can save the world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaC Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Last week I saw two performances of the Vienna State Ballet of the mixed 'Masters' bill. Their performance of Suite en Blanc was careful and exposed their weaknesses, unlike performances I have seen by Paris Opera Ballet and ENB which were technically exciting. They were much more comfortable in Christe's Before Nightfall, an angst ridden piece of Dutch contemporary ballet in Van Manen/Kylian style. The final ballet, Petit's L'Arlesienne, was superbly done, with Ioanna Avraam moving as Vivette, her first attempt at the role, and both Kirill Kourlaev and the veteran Denys Cherevychko finding the stamina, technique and emotional depth to convince as Frederi. If anyone is planning to see Mayerling at Vienna in the autumn I recommend the Kaiserhof hotel, where we stayed, as it has portraits of Franz Joseph and Sissi and an extensive family photo display of Rudolf and his family. Very atmospheric for the Macmillan ballet- and quite close to the theatre and serving brilliant breakfasts! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 Berlin has just announced its 2014-15 season: (and a revamped website) http://saison1415.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/spielplan/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 I envy them being able to have a go at Namouna. Thanks, Katherine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 11, 2014 Author Share Posted April 11, 2014 Nacho Duato receives bad reviews in the Berlin papers for his press conference yesterday: „A weak performance“, „Ambition looks different than this, and an awakening, too“, „We could have heard these answers ten years before from Malakhov“, „Berlin will never be a dance capital this way“. The papers complain that he has luxurious conditions written in his contract, where it is not fixed how many creations he has to make in one season, and that his first season bears no surprises at all. One article notes that principal dancers Rainer Krenstetter and Wieslaw Dudek are leaving the company, six new dancers will be hired, two from the Mikhailovsky (no names). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share Posted April 23, 2014 (edited) Next season at Hamburg Ballet - the main surprise is a new "Napoli" production by Lloyd Riggins  ... sorry, not the main surprise, the only surprise... Edited April 23, 2014 by Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted April 23, 2014 Share Posted April 23, 2014 (edited) Next season at Hamburg Ballet - the main surprise is a new "Napoli" production by Lloyd Riggins  ... sorry, not the main surprise, the only surprise...  I've not seen many of those ballets, so I'm happy with the season :-) and also with Alina Cojocaru confirmed guesting (hoping she will have decent partners...). The "main surprise" (even if not a surprise at all) is for me at page 94 of the brochure. Unfortunately. :-( Edited April 23, 2014 by annamicro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 I sent it to page 94 and it came up with the orchestra. Presumably not what you meant ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 I sent it to page 94 and it came up with the orchestra. Presumably not what you meant ...  you sent it to page 94 of the pdf, but brochure page 94 results as 95 in the pdf... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 So the page 94 of the brochure must be referring that two names of current principals are gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 (edited) So the page 94 of the brochure must be referring that two names of current principals are gone?  Exactly, even if I didn't notice the first one (a big big artistic loss, but more natural) and I was referring only to the one I knew is leaving: a sort of personal tragedy for me! Not trying to be misterious, but I cannot find anywhere else this new, so i don't know how official it is. Due to recent incredible anticipations, I don't trust that much in Hamburg Ballet Brochure attention to confidentiality . Edited April 24, 2014 by annamicro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share Posted April 25, 2014 Do you know where Thiago Bordin is going, annamicro, or did he end his career? I guess he was off/injured a lot in the last years. I guess we can dare to mention the names, now that the brochure is out in the open Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 (edited) I heard Thiago Bordin is going to another company but I am not sure I can write it here. He is not ending his career. Edited April 25, 2014 by Naomi M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 It seems official, Thiago Bordin will be joining NDT. Â https://view.publitas.com/nederlands-dans-theater/ndt-seizoen-14-15/page/12-13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 (edited) Do you know where Thiago Bordin is going, annamicro, or did he end his career? I guess he was off/injured a lot in the last years. I guess we can dare to mention the names, now that the brochure is out in the open  As Naomi wrote (thanks for the link) Thiago Bordin is joining NDT. He is not ending his career, but he is stopping dancing classical ballet and that's for sure a pity (I had the news after watching his magnificent Lenskij and that sublime solo! ). His plan is to dance for 5 years more (I hope he will change his mind about this since he is just 31) and then have a career as a choreographer. A huge loss for Hamburg Ballet: even if Alexander Trusch is growing well, Thiago Bordin and Sascha Riabko were by far the technical and artistical top of the company, IMO. Anyway, good luck to Thiago, not only a wonderful dancer and artist but also the most adorable person. It's funny that he is leaving from Gemany soon after having become a German, it happened just...yesterday! Edited April 25, 2014 by annamicro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aruna S Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 On Facebook, tours are mentioned including to Venice, but I couldn't find anything about that in the link to the full season. This could well be because my German is practically non-existent, although I tried to search very carefully...Which page should I be looking at, please? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Hamburg tours are here: http://www.hamburgballett.de/e/gastspiel.htm Mahler's 3rd Symphony in the courtyard of the Doges Palace in Venice, how cool is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aruna S Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Thank you, toursenlair! I'm not a Mahler fan so will skip that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 9, 2014 Author Share Posted May 9, 2014 At Dresden Semperoper Ballet, Artistic Director Aaron Watkin has extended his contract until 2018.  Next season at the Ballet on the Rhine in Düsseldorf/Duisburg: Seven new works by Hans van Manen, Terence Kohler, Young Soon Hue, Marco Goecke, Amanda Miller and of course by AD and chief choreographer Martin Schläpfer. Also Balanchine’s Serenade, Moves by Jerome Robbins, a Flamenco ballet by Brigitta Luisa Merki and Rättika by Mats Ek.  Next season at Ballet Dortmund: a full evening ballet after Thomas Mann’s "Magic Mountain" by Dortmund AD Xin Peng Wang, new works by Demis Volpi and Jiri Bubenicek, who will create a ballet after Jane Campion’s movie "The Piano". Also Benjamin Millepied’s pdd "Closer" and two big galas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 At Dresden Semperoper Ballet, Artistic Director Aaron Watkin has extended his contract until 2018. Â ...continuing that Canadian conspiracy to dominate the ballet world.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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