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 (…)
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
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The late rescheduling of programmes caused by Ilza Liepa’s unexpectedly needing a second operation on a knee injury and the lack of a replacement dancer meant no “Cléopâtre – Ida Rubinstein,” Patrick de Bana’s telling of the making of the Diaghilev ballet, on this, what should have been the second (…)
Reviewed by Graham Watts – Wednesday 17 July 2013 Performance reviewed: 16 July Hot on the heels of one Muscovite ballet company (the Stanislavsky) departing the London Coliseum, another arrives; since Andris Liepa’s Russian Seasons programme is constructed around the company that performs at the vast 6,000 seat State Kremlin (…)
Following a triumphant Coliseum Diaghilev Festival debut in 2011 and four successful seasons in Paris at the Theatre des Champs Elysees Programme 1 Cleopatra/Ida Rubinstein, Le Spectre de la Rose, The Firebird Tuesday July 16th at 7.30pm and Wednesday July 17th at 7.30pm Special Matinee Wednesday July 17th at 2.00pm Programme: Chopiniana, (…)
More than 100 years after Europe first fell under the spell of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the magic is recaptured by Les Saison Russes’ appearances in France. This time, Diaghilev’s mission has been taken up by the world famous dancer and People’s Artist of Russia Andris Liepa. The programme includes pas (…)
BRINGING together dancers from the Kremlin Ballet theatre company, plus guest artists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi, Andris Liepa’s dream project – subtitled Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle – delivers an unprecedented number of ballets created by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between 1909 and 1929. Regarded as the Golden Age (…)
The Diaghilev Festival is announced at a time of great interest in the life and work of Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. The Victoria & Albert Museum embarks on a major autumn exhibition – “Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, 1909 – 1929” – opening Saturday 25 (…)
