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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 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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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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by Norm Robins Carmen Suite is a ballet in one act created by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso. The music was
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By Norm Robins The Berlin Wall was dismantled in 1998. Shortly thereafter in 2001, the Soviet Union was dismantled. This
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They say that necessity is the mother of invention. While performing with the Deutsche Oper Berling, János Korda moved into
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