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 (…)
Andris Liepa and Georgy Isaakyan – Bringing Diaghilev Back: Recreating the Russian Seasons
The former Bolshoi star, Andris Liepa, 52, returns to the London Coliseum from 8th to 19th July with a two-week programme in his itinerant series of Les Saisons Russes du XX1e Siècle. This will feature a triple bill of Liepa’s productions of Petrushka, Chopiniana and the Polovtsian Dances (from Borodin’s opera, Prince Igor) on 11th/12th July, followed by seven performances (…)