Out of 148 dance performances at 27 different venues across London during 2014 as well as another 22 performances around the UK and in Russia, Poland, Spain, France and Belgium – Graham Watts from Londondance gives a month by month run down of his highlights in 2014… JULY The Russian (…)
The Golden Cockerel in London Coliseum by Foteini Christofilopoulou, DanceTabs
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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
Diaghilev Festival of Ballet at English National Opera : Programme 1
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 (…)
Andris Liepa: the ‘perestroika kid’ of Russian ballet
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 (…)
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 (…)
Dave Morgan, DanceTabs: Russian Season for the 21st Century at the London Coliseum, July 2013
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