PAST EVENTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
December 21st, 2007

Christmas dance on TV features "Romeo and Juliet" with Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta on BBC2 and "Nutcracker" with Myriam Ould-Braham and Jérémie Bélingard on France3.
On the 30th of December "Midsummer night's dream" with Alessandra Ferri and Roberto Bolle is scheduled on Mezzo.
The New Year's Eve Tschaikowsky Gala from La Scala Milan with Roberto Bolle, Polina Semionova, Nadja Saidakova and Ronald Savkovic is scheduled on ARTE.

December 3rd, 2007

Kenneth Greve's new Nutcracker premieres on December 5 at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen
with Alessio Carbone as guest on December 9.

October 15th, 2007

From the 25th of October to the 1st of November the Stuttgart Ballet remembers John Cranko's 80th anniversary. Highlights of the week are the gala "Hommage à Cranko" on the 26th and the gala performance of "Onegin" 40 years after its world premiere on the 27th.

September 24th, 2007

ENB presents the world premiere of Michael Corder's new ballet "The Snow Queen" at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool on October 11, based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen, with music by Prokofiev.

August 28th, 2007

Sadler's Wells hosts between Wednesday 19 and Sunday 23 September the Morphoses/ The Wheeldon Company's much-anticipated world premiere season, featuring guest artists from The Royal Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and New York City Ballet.

June 28th, 2007

In Hamburg on July 10 and 11 two gala performances of Neumeier's "The Lady of the Camelias" will be performed by the Principal Dancers of La Scala Alessandra Ferri and Roberto Bolle as Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval, the Premiers Danseurs of the Paris Opera Ballet Isabelle Ciaravola and Christophe Duquenne as Manon Lescaut and Des Grieux and the former Etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet Michaël Denard as Monsieur Duval.

June 8th, 2007

Artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky, and ballet master-restorer Yuri Burlaka intend to revive the spirit of the initial production of "Le Corsaire", with libretto by Joseph Mazilier making use of notation preserved in Harvard University Library and offer audiences an original staging treatment which is premiered on June 21 in Moscow starring Svetlana Zakharova and Denis Matvienko.

May 14th, 2007

From the 15th to the 18th of May Sadler’s Wells hosts four performances by Darcey Bussell and guest artists including Roberto Bolle, Tamara Rojo, Jonathan Cope, Edward Watson and Nicola Tranah, in a farewell show from ‘Britain’s Ballerina’. 
The show will feature highlights from Bussell’s repertoire, including pas de deux from William Forsythe’s In the middle, somewhat elevated and Christopher Wheeldon’s Tryst, and a complete performance of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Winter Dreams.

April 27th, 2007

France2 broadcasts the latest performance of Nureyev's "Cinderella" with POB étoiles Agnès Letestu and José Martinez.

April 20th, 2007

For Márcia Haydée's 70th anniversary the Stuttgart Ballet presents a gala performance of Cranko's "Romeo and Juliet" starring Egon Madsen, Márcia Haydée, John Neumeier, Alicia Amatriain, Katja Wünsche, Jason Reilly, Christian Spuck.

April 9th, 2007

The VII International Ballet Festival Mariinsky opens on Thursday with a revival of "The Awakening of Flora", ballet created in 1894 by Petipa with music by Drigo. 

March 19th, 2007

For the first time La Scala Ballet performs "La Dame aux Camélias", one of the milestones of John Neumeier, reknown for narrative full evening works and his contemporary concept of dramatic ballet by way of splendid pas de deux, big danced scenes for the group and highlights for the soloists.
This ballet marks Alessandra Ferri's farewell to La Scala stage.

March 5th, 2007 

John Neumeier is going to stage Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" at Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Musical Theatre. 
The ballet to music by Tchaikovsky, Skryabin, and Glenny would premiere on March 9.

February 12th, 2007 

On Wednesday farewell performance for Laurent Hilaire at the Paris Opera. He dances Apollo and the Wayfarer as his last roles.

February 5th, 2007 

On Saturday at the Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome Darcey Bussell offers her farewell performance in Italy during the Roberto Bolle Gala for Unicef.

January 29th, 2007

The Bayerisches Staatsballett presents on Wednesday the première of Liska's production of "Le Corsaire", a feast of the spectacular with the charm and adventure of Conrad the pirate and his beloved Medora.

January 15th, 2007

BBC One broadcasts on Sunday afternoon the Kirov Swan Lake recorded last April with Uliana Lopatkina and the documentary "The Magic of Swan Lake" presented by Darcey Bussell.
 

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