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The Golden Cockerel in London Coliseum by Foteini Christofilopoulou, DanceTabs
Critical success of Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle in London Summer 2014
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 (…)
The Golden Cockerel opera review: Sensual, thundering and delightfully outrageous
In this thoroughly enjoyable song and dance junket, the big question is, who is sending up whom? Rimsky Korsakov created some of his most exquisitely sensual and thundering melodies to evoke a romantic Russian history. Think of an excitable Genghis Khan galloping about the Central Steppes of Asia. In fact (…)
Le Coq D’Or
‘Calculating Queen of Shemakha’: Natalia Savelieva in Le Coq d’Or. Photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel) is an opera composed by Rimsky-Korsakov and based on a poem by Pushkin. It opened in Moscow in 1909, the year that Sergei Diaghilev first visited Paris with the troupe of (…)
Diaghilev Festival of Ballet at English National Opera: Programme 2 Gala
13th Jul 2014 Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle The final day of the Russian Season at the London Coliseum, the Diaghilev Gala includes a scene from Coq d’Or, Polovtsian Dances and Scheherazade which stars Yulia Makhalina & Artem Yachmennikov. With international guest stars. Conductor: Alevtina Ioffe. Artistic director: Andris Liepa
Review: Les Saisons Russes du XXI siecle – Le Coq D’Or – London Coliseum
There are so many reasons to cherish this new-old, opera-ballet production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s cutting satire wrapped in a fairy tale that it’s hard to know where to start the list. But, let’s begin with this production’s many claims to uniqueness. It combines opera and ballet simultaneously over three acts (although in the (…)
Les Saisons Russes: Le Coq D’Or
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 (…)
Le Coq D’Or (The Golden Cockerel) at English National Opera, London
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 (…)
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 (…)
British critics in Moscow Sats Theatre
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
