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The celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten draw to a close at the end of the 2013-14 season, and one of the closing highlights is the London premiere of David Bintley’s The Prince of the Pagodas by the Birmingham Royal Ballet.  The Prince of the Pagodas was the only full-length ballet…

The Royal Ballet opens its Spring Season at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden this week, with a glorious production of the enchanting Tchaikovsky ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Produced by Monica Mason (former Director of The Royal Ballet) and Christopher Newton, it features additional choreography by Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton and Christopher Wheeldon, with original…

One of Monaco’s most exciting cultural events – Le festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo – celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.  This month-long festival, which has just opened, presents a superb array of cultural events from the world of art, music, theatre and dance – featuring an impressive line-up of international artists, from the…

The Martha Graham Dance Company opens its 2014 New York City Season on March 19.  The season features two world premieres, and four Graham masterworks, included in which are the anniversaries of two works which are deeply woven into the Graham legend – the 70th anniversary of Appalachian Spring and the 30th anniversary of The…

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony embark on an 11-concert, eight-city European tour on 14th March.  Taking in London, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Geneva, Luxembourg, Dortmund and Birmingham, the ensemble will be joined by a group of distinguished guest artists – violinist Julia Fischer, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and the St Lawrence String Quartet. The…

This month, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo – under the Presidency of HRH the Princess of Hanover – sets off on an international tour, taking Jean-Christophe Maillot’s LAC to California, New York, London, Lyon and Paris. One of the great narrative ballets for which Maillot – the Company’s Director-Choreographer – is internationally renowned, LAC was a…

The Royal Albert Hall hosts an unusual production of La Bohème over the coming week.  Directed by Francesca Zambello, Giacomo Puccini’s passionate but tragic story of doomed love – originally set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s – moves on 100 years, taking place in wartime Paris in this revival of Zambello’s…

New York City Ballet’s extraordinarily varied Winter Season draws to a close this week, and there’s still time (just!) to catch some of the most interesting and creative works from the Company’s vast repertoire. À la Francaise is devoted to ballets choreographed to the music of French composers.  The first of these is by Liam…

Oh to be in Los Angeles towards the end of February – when Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil are joined at Walt Disney Concert Hall by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and by violinist Alina Pogostkina and cellist Alisa Weilerstein – for a 10-day TchaikovskyFest! This exciting collaboration gets underway with a…

On Saturday, February 8th, the Metropolitan Opera in New York presents Antonín Dvořák’s most famous opera, Rusalka, featuring soprano Renée Fleming in one of her signature roles.  On this occasion, the enjoyment of the performance will not be limited to the audience at the Met, for the production is being screened in cinemas around the…