FionaM Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 On 22/04/2021 at 11:31, Jeannette said: Indeed! Wasn’t it Zhang who danced the initial (“rough” - my term) pdd with Lauretta Summerscales? Very different than at ABT! yes to Zhang & Summercales and yes the choreo is more refined. is the world becoming more prudish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 2 hours ago, FionaE said: yes to Zhang & Summercales and yes the choreo is more refined. is the world becoming more prudish? Or perhaps the choreography had to be adjusted due to filming/streaming, to be suitable for all ages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted May 1, 2021 Share Posted May 1, 2021 2 hours ago, oncnp said: Vienna State Ballet Wiener Staatsoper (wiener-staatsoper.at) All streams listed below are available free of charge in Austria as well as internationally on our website play.wiener-staatsoper.at. Each begins at 7:00 p.m. and the broadcasts can be accessed for 24 hours. Saturday, May 1, 2021, 19.00 - BALLET Léo Delibes SYLVIA (Performance of 10 November 2018) Choreography: Manuel Legris after Louis Mérante et al. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes With: Nikisha Fogo, Denys Cherevychko, Davide Dato, soloists, corps de ballet and youth company of the Vienna State Ballet, among others Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 7.00 pm - BALLET Piotr I. Tchaikovsky SWAN LAKE (Performance of 16 March 2014) Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev Conductor: Alexander Ingram With: Olga Esina, Vladimir Shishov, Eno Peci, soloists, corps de ballet and youth company of the Vienna State Ballet Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 7.00 p.m. - BALLET Edvard Grieg PEER GYNT (Performance of 4 December 2018) Choreography: Edward Clug Conductor: Simon Hewett With: Jakob Feyferlik, Alice Firenze, Eno Peci, Zsolt Török, soloists and corps de ballet of the Vienna State Ballet Friday, May 7, 2021, 7.00 p.m. - BALLET Adolphe Adam GISELLE (Performance of 28 September 2017) Choreography: Elena Chernishova Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov With: Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Rebecca Horner, soloists and corps de ballet of the Vienna State Ballet I’m looking forward to Sylvia tonight ... I haven’t seen Nikisha Fogo in a full ballet yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 New Principals for Vienna State Ballet: Hyo-Jung Kang from Stuttgart and Alexey Popov from Munich, both principal dancers in their companies, will dance at Vienna from next season on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 Theatres in Austria will reopen on 19. May, Vienna State Ballet and the companies at Salzburg, Graz or Linz will be dancing again in front of a reduced audience. Zurich Ballet has resumed performances in front of an audience of 50 people. German theatres are still closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 Is there any sign of announcements from German and Austrian companies for next season? I'm really beginning to feel the announcements drought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 10, 2021 Author Share Posted May 10, 2021 Lizbie, as theatres are still closed, I suppose they wait with their announcements until they know when and how they can open. Some smaller venues have published their plans, but not the big companies. Munich will reopen on 19. May with "Paradigma", works by Russell Maliphant, Sharon Eyal und Liam Scarlett. Andrey Kaydanovskiy‘s new full-length story ballet "Der Schneesturm" will be on the schedule on 29. and 31. May. They are playing for one third of the usual capacity, with masks and social distancing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 11, 2021 Author Share Posted May 11, 2021 Colleen Scott has died on Sunday at the age of 75 years in Munich. The ballerina from South Africa was a principal dancer at John Neumeier's Hamburg Ballet for many years and then followed her husband Ivan Liska to Munich, where he was ballet director and she became ballet mistress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share Posted May 14, 2021 Friedemann Vogel made his first choreography, watch it here at Stuttgart Ballet, with some words by him about the piece: https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/home/not-in-my-hands/ or on Youtube: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 17, 2021 Author Share Posted May 17, 2021 Here we go, Zurich Ballet is the first major company to publish its next season: A double bill with ballets by Crystal Pite ("Angels' Atlas") and Marco Goecke ("Almost Blue"), a "Monteverdi" ballet as new creation by AD Christian Spuck, Edward Clug's "Peer Gynt" and a Young Choreographers Evening. Repertory: Spuck's Sleeping Beauty (which had exactly one performance, the premiere, in October), Spuck's "Leonce and Lena", "Bolero"/"Sacre" by Johan Inger and Edward Clug. https://www.opernhaus.ch/en/spielplan/ballett-2122/ Very few changes with the dancers, find the season brochure here and go to page 175 https://issuu.com/opernhauszuerich/docs/saisonbuch_21-22_low/174 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 18, 2021 Author Share Posted May 18, 2021 Hamburg Ballet reopens on 29. May with the premiere of Neumeier's "Beethoven Project II", initially planned for December 2020. He announces a new version of his several "Hamlet" ballets for June, called "Hamlet 21". Hamburg also plans to have the ballet days in June, with two performances of the usual Nijinsky Gala, and a new DVD of Neumeier's "Midsummer Night's Dream", cast here (no Alina, what a pity!!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted May 19, 2021 Share Posted May 19, 2021 On 18/05/2021 at 16:41, Angela said: Hamburg Ballet reopens on 29. May with the premiere of Neumeier's "Beethoven Project II", initially planned for December 2020. He announces a new version of his several "Hamlet" ballets for June, called "Hamlet 21". Hamburg also plans to have the ballet days in June, with two performances of the usual Nijinsky Gala, and a new DVD of Neumeier's "Midsummer Night's Dream", cast here (no Alina, what a pity!!) Yes ... I’m with you .. would have loved a DVD from Hamburg with Alina in the Dream. Hoping for her return to Hamburg at some point soon too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine0308 Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 Staatsballett Berlin is currently scheduled to give three gala performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 5, 6 and 23. They will also conquer Berlin by ship on river Spree on June 10.😉 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annamicro Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 On 18/05/2021 at 17:41, Angela said: Hamburg Ballet reopens on 29. May with the premiere of Neumeier's "Beethoven Project II", initially planned for December 2020. He announces a new version of his several "Hamlet" ballets for June, called "Hamlet 21". Hamburg also plans to have the ballet days in June, with two performances of the usual Nijinsky Gala, and a new DVD of Neumeier's "Midsummer Night's Dream", cast here (no Alina, what a pity!!) Great to have the Ballett-Tage back, even if I suspect it will not be easy to have tickets (I suppose the theatre capacity will be reduced)...and the prices raised horribly (up to 232 euros for the Nijinsky Galas!). In addition, even if I was lucky to have my second dose of vaccine a couple of weeks ago, I don't know if it's possible to travel to Germany in June from abroad without quarantine? Is it? A pity to not have Midsummer Night's Dream DVD with Cojocaru, especially because the clip on Hamburg website seems excellent and, being wise, they could have recorded a full Cojocaru-Evans performance. @Angela, have you seen her in this ballet or you were hoping it "on trust" 🙂 ? She is obviously excellent as Hippolyta, but I especially enjoy her surprising Titania: a casting against Alina's most common types and peculiar movements that she makes her own in an outstanding way (she is truly fearless!). I've never seen Anna Laudere in this and I would expect her to be a good Titania...isn't she maybe a little too tall for the choreography? IMO Edvin Revazov is (was?) a better Oberon than Christopher Evans, on the other hand, Evans is much better as Theseus and his stage presence was finally improving a lot and in a very promising way before the theatres closure. I'd have loved to have Sascha Ryabko, but anyway great to have Karen Azatyan as Demetrius: he was retiring due to injury...in his case maybe the pandemic helped a recovery! He is a good contrast to Jacopo Bellussi poetry as Lysander. I've been spoiled by artist as Alban Lendorf and Sascha Ryabko and definitely I cannot buy Alexander Trusch as Philostrat/Puck... (I am afraid probably I would skip him in everything, but here I definitely found him at the same time annoying and insipid:...but who knows? maybe he has improved from September 2019...) I hope i'll be able to travel again to Hamburg soon... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 (edited) FROM BERLIN WITH LOVE IV at the Deutsche Oper BerlinStaatsballett Berlin back on stage in June HALF LIFE, Foto: Jubal Battisti Berlin, May 25, 2021 --- Due to decreasing case rates, the Staatsballett Berlin will take the stage with the FROM BERLIN WITH LOVE IV gala programme in June, featuring pieces from the broad spectrum of its repertoire. As indoor cultural events will be allowed as soon as case rates decrease, the Staatsballett Berlin plans to stage a brand-new gala, FROM BERLIN WITH LOVE IV, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 5, 6 and 23. The programme offers a variety of dance styles and allows plenty of dancers to showcase the results of their on-going rehearsals. With the GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE by Victor Gsovsky, Aya Okumura and Daniil Simkin pay tribute to the classical technique whereas Yuria Isaka and Murilo de Oliveira celebrate Bournonville's style with the pas de deux from THE FLOWER FESTIVAL IN GENZANO. Mauro Bigonzetti's DUETTO INOFFENSIVO with principal dancers Elisa Carrillo Cabrera and Yolanda Correa thrives on expressive physical energy. The programme is complemented by Sharon Eyal's successful choreography HALF LIFE which has a group of dancers form an ecstatic unity fuelled by thumping techno beats. Tickets will go on sale on May 27, 2021 at 12 pm. Should performances be cancelled due to increasing case rates or other constraints by the Berlin Senate, all tickets will be refunded in full. FROM BERLIN WITH LOVE IV Staatsballett Berlin Gala 5 June 2021, 7 p.m. 6, 23 June 2021, 7.30 p.m. Deutsche Oper Berlin PROGRAMME IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER DUETTO INOFFENSIVO (duet) Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti Music: Gioacchino Rossino EIN SOMMERNACHTSTRAUM (excerpt) Choreography: Heinz Spoerli Music: Philipp Glass THE FLOWER FESTIVAL IN GENZANO (pas de deux) Choreography: Auguste Bournonville Music: Edvard Helsted GOPAK (solo) Choreography: Fedor W. Lopuchow Music: Vasily P. Solovyov-Sedoi GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE (grand pas de deux) Choreography: after Victor Gsovsky Music: Daniel François Esprit Auber HALF LIFE Choreography: Sharon Eyal Music: Ori Lichtik MARE CRISIUM Choreography: Arshak Ghalumyan Music: Karl Jenkins PROMENADE (duet) Choreography: Arshak Ghalumyan Music: Claude Debussy Edited May 25, 2021 by Angela unnecessary information 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share Posted May 25, 2021 On 23/05/2021 at 12:50, annamicro said: @Angela, have you seen her in this ballet or you were hoping it "on trust" 🙂 ? She is obviously excellent as Hippolyta, but I especially enjoy her surprising Titania: a casting against Alina's most common types and peculiar movements that she makes her own in an outstanding way (she is truly fearless!). I've never seen Anna Laudere in this and I would expect her to be a good Titania...isn't she maybe a little too tall for the choreography? Anna, I've seen her some ten years ago with Thiago Bordin, a wonderful couple! I especially remember her wedding pdd which was beautiful, so warm and tender and full of love - what she makes of every pas de deux, even if there was no love in it before... Forgive me if I dream a little about the older casts in this ballet (the Bubeniceks! Riabko! Azzoni! Ivan Urban!), I've not seen the recent performances. I can't imagine Anna Laudere in the role, she lacks any warmth and tenderness, but Revazov is huge and a fine partner, so it should work for the difficult lifts. It IS one of Neumeier's best ballets and we should be happy to finally have a recording. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) On 23/05/2021 at 12:50, annamicro said: In addition, even if I was lucky to have my second dose of vaccine a couple of weeks ago, I don't know if it's possible to travel to Germany in June from abroad without quarantine? Is it? It's tricky as it depends on the countries been to in the ten previous days and on other factors, and as there is a combination of federal and state regulations / exceptions. https://www.hamburg.de/hu/corona-regeln-einreise/ Moreover, the classification of countries as risk / high incidence / variant of concern is updated on a regular basis. Being fully vaccinated will definitely be of great benefit! There is also the question of accommodation. Hotels in Hamburg are still closed to non-business travel though I've read somewhere that they may open later in June. https://www.hamburg-tourism.de/das-ist-hamburg/infos/aktuelle-hinweise/ Hotels in neighbouring Schleswig Holstein and Lower Saxony are open for non-business purposes already but staying there would come with its own set of regulations ... Edited May 26, 2021 by Duck grammar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) The German federal government will spend another 2.5 billion Euros for culture, to help cultural events recover from the Corona crisis. It is reported to be the largest cultural funding program in German history. First, the program will enable smaller events up to 500 visitors in compliance with corona-related hygiene regulations and then later it will help events with up to 2000 visitors by subsidizing the income from ticket sales and reducing the economic risks, by covering finances in the event of corona-related cancellations oder postponements. There were other help programs for freelancers and artists before. Edited May 26, 2021 by Angela reason for edit: my stupidity 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 Sounds rather broader coverage than we got in the UK, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 Stuttgart Ballet is back on stage with three mixed bills and an audience of 100 or hopefully more people: https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/schedule/calendar/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 And Gauthier Dance is back at Stuttgart Theaterhaus on 24. June with a world premiere: Marie Chouinard: LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC Music: Louis Dufort Marco Goecke: SHARA NUR Music: Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski Hofesh Shechter: SWAN CAKE Music: Hofesh Shechter Cayetano Soto: UNTITLED FOR 7 DANCERS Music: Peter Gregson They also announce a tour to Bolzano Danza on 16. July and some tour dates in Germany. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 🙃😍🤩🤪💖💥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share Posted May 29, 2021 Austria will allow full theatres without masks from 1. July on, but only for tested, vaccinated or recovered people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted May 31, 2021 Author Share Posted May 31, 2021 Hamburg Ballet's next season - download here - John Neumeier revives his Sleeping Beauty from 1978, with refreshed sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose - Hamburg premiere of Christopher Wheeldon: The Winter's Tale - revivals of Neumeier's Sylvia and Liliom Tours to Vienna, Baden-Baden, Los Angeles and Tarbes Cojocaru remains guest artist 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 On 28/05/2021 at 17:06, Angela said: Stuttgart Ballet is back on stage with three mixed bills and an audience of 100 or hopefully more people: https://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/schedule/calendar/ Just bought my first ticket for a performance live on stage since March 2020 😊😃😁 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duck Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 (edited) On 26/05/2021 at 15:06, Duck said: It's tricky as it depends on the countries been to in the ten previous days and on other factors, and as there is a combination of federal and state regulations / exceptions. https://www.hamburg.de/hu/corona-regeln-einreise/ Moreover, the classification of countries as risk / high incidence / variant of concern is updated on a regular basis. Being fully vaccinated will definitely be of great benefit! There is also the question of accommodation. Hotels in Hamburg are still closed to non-business travel though I've read somewhere that they may open later in June. https://www.hamburg-tourism.de/das-ist-hamburg/infos/aktuelle-hinweise/ Hotels in neighbouring Schleswig Holstein and Lower Saxony are open for non-business purposes already but staying there would come with its own set of regulations ... Hotels in Hamburg are open again for non-business purposes. A negative test is required, among others. https://www.hamburg-tourism.de/das-ist-hamburg/infos/aktuelle-hinweise/ Hamburg Ballet has specified their requirements, including that "fully vaccatinated" means the 2nd dosis needs to be at least two weeks prior to a performance (this is not stated in the link with regards to travelling to Hamburg from abroad to avoid quarantaine but may well apply there, too). https://www.hamburgballett.de/en/index.php#2021-06-01 You may want to check whether the links above contain all requirements. Edited June 1, 2021 by Duck incomplete sentence / grammar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted June 2, 2021 Share Posted June 2, 2021 On 31/05/2021 at 18:27, Angela said: Hamburg Ballet's next season - download here - John Neumeier revives his Sleeping Beauty from 1978, with refreshed sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose - Hamburg premiere of Christopher Wheeldon: The Winter's Tale - revivals of Neumeier's Sylvia and Liliom Tours to Vienna, Baden-Baden, Los Angeles and Tarbes Cojocaru remains guest artist Thrilled to see Alina Cojocaru continues as guest principal. I would hope she might appear in Sleeping Beauty (a signature role for her), The Winter's Tale (she’d be great in this) and Liliom (created on her) as well as repertoire such as The Glass Menagerie (also created on her), The Nutcracker, Midsummer’s Night’s Dream and Die Kameliendame ... all of which she has performed before. Maybe I hope for too much!!! 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted June 3, 2021 Author Share Posted June 3, 2021 (edited) Season 21/22 for Vienna State Ballet is online here Martin Schläpfer: Marsch, Walzer, Polka with Johann Strauß music Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony by Marco Goecke (new creation) George Balanchine, Symphony in C Robbins, Other Dances Lucinda Childs, Concerto Balanchine, Liebeslieder Walzer Martin Schläpfer: The Seasons (Oratorio by Joseph Haydn), new creation Nureyev Gala Edited June 3, 2021 by Angela mistake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 Next season at Bavarian State Ballet at Munich: Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella on 19. November, the production was made for Dutch National in 2012 a triple bill called "Passages" with new creations by Marco Goecke and David Dawson, and with Alexei Ratmansky‘s Pictures of an Exhibition, which had been planned for 2020 a young choreographer’s evening named "Heute ist morgen" (Today is tomorrow), artists to be announced. John Neumeier’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be back in the repertory, which also contains Liam Scarlett‘s With a Chance of Rain, the triple bill Paradigma, Balanchine’s Jewels, Swan Lake, Giselle, The Blizzard by Andrey Kaydanovskiy and Coppélia by Roland Petit. News about the dancers to follow. The season is not yet online, I'll post the link when available. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted June 10, 2021 Author Share Posted June 10, 2021 here is the link for Munich - new opera director, new website design 🤨 🤷♀️ https://next.staatsoper.de/en/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Oh crikey, and one that both browsers I've tried are struggling with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 10, 2021 Share Posted June 10, 2021 Makes my stomach churn, just looking at it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 21 hours ago, Angela said: here is the link for Munich - new opera director, new website design 🤨 🤷♀️ https://next.staatsoper.de/en/ interesting new ballet season … I get a feeling it’s an increasing number of performances too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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