ANDRIS LIEPA and company made a triumphant return to the London Coliseum in July with an ambitious, exciting and entertaining programme of ballet dedicated to the great ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The Coliseum programme included the UK premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Le Coq d’Or or The Golden Cockerel co-directed and staged (…)
Petrushka / Chopiniana / Polovtsian Dances Scheherazade / Le Coq d’Or Act III / Polovtsian Dances 11 & 13 July Both of these stellar evenings of ballet ended with the same remarkable buzz. A flourish made all the more notable since the Polovtsian Dances were created for the second act of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, over (…)
11 Jul 2014 – 12 Jul 2014 Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle Part of the Russian Season at the London Coliseum, Diaghilev Festival is a collection of Ballets including: Petrushka premiered in Paris in June 1911. Igor Stravinsky wrote the music and co-wrote the story with Alexandre Benois. A tale (…)
One hundred years on, Andris Liepa, son of famous choreographer Maris Liepa, recreates the performances of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in London. Vintage stagings of Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) and Petrushka arrived in London on July 8-13. As the premiere approached, Andris Liepa talked with RBTH about the (…)
Andris Liepa has always brought us interesting productions, but his partnership with Georgi Isaakian and the Natalia Sats Moscow State Musical Academic Children’s Theatre seems to have enabled him (and us) to travel back in time. Almost 100 years to the day since it was first performed in London, we (…)
The billions of people watching the Sochi Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies saw tributes to Russia’s icons of literature, music, opera and ballet. This summer at the London Coliseum Les Saisons Russes du XX1 siècle stages a season of legendary works that honour two of the greatest, namely Sergei Diaghilev and (…)
On January 12, “The Golden Cockerel” visited the famous British ballet critics: Graham Watts – Member of the Critics’ Circle, Chairman of the Dance Section and National Dance Awards Committee; Caroline Jowett – Daily Express, Gerald Dowler – Dancing Times. Photos: Julia Ryzhenko
To celebrate his 50th birthday the world famous ballet dancer and producer Andris Liepa performed the role of Shahryar in the Les Saison Russes ballet Scheherazade. Says Liepa, “St. Petersburg has played a significant role in my career; I first danced on this stage in the 1990s, in the role (…)
In July, Andris Liepa, former Bolshoi Ballet star turned ballet entrepreneur returns to London with his company Les Saisons Russes du XXIe Siècle from July 16 to 20. Headlining the season is Patrick de Bana’s “Cléopâtre – Ida Rubinstein,” being seen in London for the first time, which is being (…)
