Look What I Found On YouTube—The SF Ballet Gala Spellbound
By Norm Robins This 1 hour 42-minute Spellbound Gala was presented at the San Francisco Ballet’s 2020 opening night, January
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Sundays at the Bolshoi Ballet—Romeo and Juliette
This Sunday, March 29, 2020, the Bolshoi had planned to telecast the 2020 production of Romeo and Juliette from Moscow. But, like every other theater in God’s creation they will be dark. What to do? How to go on?
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The Bolshoi in Cinema—Swan Lake
~By Norm Robins~ The Bolshoi Ballet continues this season of classics with Swan Lake. Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in
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The Bolshoi in Cinema—Giselle
By Norm Robins This season the Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema is continuing its classics including Giselle, a standard beloved over
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The Bolshoi in Cinemas—Le Corsaire
Pirates, slave girls, pashas, eunuchs, heroes, a spurned wife, damsels in love and in distress, flamboyant costumes, 120 dancers, a shipwreck (what’s a ballet without a shipwreck?), this ballet has them all. Originally done a century ago, based on a poem of the same name by Byron, and choreographed by Marius Petipa, Le Corsaire has been gloriously updated and rechoreographed by Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka.
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The Bolshoi Ballet In Cinemas Opens With Raymonda
The Bolshoi Ballet kicks off its 2019/20 season with their storied production of Raymonda. First performed at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg on January 19, 1898, it was choreographed by the legendary Marius Petipa for the Russian Imperial Ballet set to the stirring music of Alexander Glazunov.
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The Met’s Summer Encores In Movie Theaters
By Norm Robins The Metropolitan Opera will broadcast encore performances of four operas this summer in HD, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette,
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The Bolshoi Ballet Dances Carmen Suite and Petrushka
by Norm Robins Carmen Suite is a ballet in one act created by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso. The music was
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The Bolshoi Ballet Performs The Golden Age at the Movies
By Norm Robins The Berlin Wall was dismantled in 1998. Shortly thereafter in 2001, the Soviet Union was dismantled. This
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János Korda ~ World-Renowned Dancer and Artist
They say that necessity is the mother of invention. While performing with the Deutsche Oper Berling, János Korda moved into
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