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Little Dancer, a musical inspired by the young ballet student who posed for Edgar Degas’ enigmatic sculpture, Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, has opened at the Eisenhower Theater, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington DC. This world premiere production, based on fact, but partly fictionalized, tells the story of young Marie…

The Czech Philharmonic begins an 11-city tour of the United States on November 4, six years after the orchestra’s last US visit. Led by Music Director Jiří Bělohlávek, the Philharmonic will appear in centres on both the West and East Coasts, the tour culminating in performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the National Cathedral…

A new season of worldwide cinema screenings from the Bolshoi Ballet opens on October 26th with a revival of Yuri Grigorovich’s The Legend of Love, the work that confirmed an entirely new approach to classical ballet in Russia, and set a trend for its future development. Regarded as one of the most outstanding Russian choreographers…

On the Town has just opened on Broadway, and it’s clear that the Lyric Theatre on West 42nd Street is the place to be for what the critics are calling “a helluva show”. “An exuberant, dazzling revival … with big, crowd-pleasing dance numbers, lavish and clever visuals and superb performances from a massive cast”, says…

A unique event in the history of ballet takes place on October 1st – World Ballet Day Live – 20 hours of continuous online live streaming from the rehearsal rooms of five of the world’s greatest ballet companies.  World Ballet Day Live is an extension of Royal Ballet Live, a nine-hour online event which took…

In the late 1950s, when a young high-school dropout from Detroit chose his passion for music over that of featherweight boxing, he could never have foreseen the impact that this decision would have on the world of popular music. Nor could he have known that he’d become a major player in a cultural revolution which…

The 2014 BBC Proms season has just opened at the Royal Albert Hall in London, heralding the start of the world’s largest and longest-running classical music festival – eight weeks of concerts by some of the finest artists, orchestras and ensembles of today, performing the works of some of the greatest composers which the world…

The Monaco Boys Choir celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion, the award-winning ensemble has just embarked on a tour of the East Coast of the USA. Formerly known as The Little Singers of Monaco (Les Petits Chanteurs de Monaco), this world-renowned choir, under the direction of Pierre Debat, opened its…

The Metropolitan Opera opens its series of Summer Encores this week – a selection of performances from the award-winning series, The Met: Live in HD – which are to be screened in cinemas around the world over the next few weeks. Featured in these Encore presentations are two Verdi operas – Rigoletto and Otello –…

Students of Monaco’s Princess Grace Academy of Dance are in the final stages of preparation for their annual end of year gala which takes place in Monte-Carlo on 18th and 19th June.   This is an important event in the training programme of these young dancers – the culmination of their studies over the past year,…