Month: July 2013

San Francisco’s de Young Museum hosts an unusual residency over the coming month, as artist Peggy Gyulai turns an exhibition space into an artist’s studio, in which visitors can watch what she describes as “a living, breathing, working artist interpreting the lyrical qualities of music on canvas”. Peggy’s works of art are, literally, inspired by…

The Bolshoi Ballet, with the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, returns to the Royal Opera House this month to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Company’s first visit to Covent Garden under the banner of Victor Hochhauser.  In a season which includes three grand classics  – Swan Lake, La Bayadère and Sleeping Beauty – the…

For Proms and iPad aficionados, the BBC has just launched a Proms Companion for you to download to your iPad free, so you can navigate your way through the world’s greatest music festival wherever and whenever you please. The development of the digital Proms Companion will surely be welcomed by both newcomers and seasoned Prommers…

To mark the 75th anniversary of the birth of Rudolf Nureyev, English National Ballet celebrates his legacy with a programme of works which demonstrate the versatility of this remarkably gifted dancer, and with which he was closely associated – Fokine’s Petrushka, Béjart’s Song of a Wayfarer and Nureyev’s own version of  Act III from Petipa’s…

The Summer Dance season of Ballets de Monte-Carlo opened last week with Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Vers un pays sage and Sheherazade, and continues this week with a triple bill of three very different works – Alexander Ekman’s Rondo, Blind Willow by Ina Christel Johannessen and a new work by Jeroen Verbruggen, Arithmophobia. Rhythm is the theme…

California’s Napa Valley is once again preparing to host its annual Festival del Sole, a celebration of classical music, dance and theatre, featuring a line-up of international stars.  Every July, some of the finest wine estates in Napa provide a theatrical and dining experience par excellence against a backdrop of some of the most beautiful…

  Hot on the heels of San Francisco Symphony’s West Side Story in Concert comes news that the Michael Brenner stage production of this Broadway classic has just opened its 2013-14 European tour.  Presented by BB Promotion GmbH, in co-operation with Sundance Productions Inc NY, West Side Story will be on stage in major international…