Sleeping Beauty is one of the cornerstones of the world ballet repertoire and in musical terms is considered the most perfect of all P. I. Tchaikovsky’s ballet opuses. Perrault’s famous fairy tale of a girl who cuts herself on a thorn and falls asleep for one hundred years is not only intended for classical dance lovers. Javier...
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Swan Lake ranks among the most famous classical ballet titles and forms part of the repertoire of all major theatres worldwide. The German fairy tale about Princess Odette, transfigured into a swan, the evil sorcerer Red Beard and the hapless Prince who forgets about his promise has gained immortality owing to P. I. Tchaikovsky’s music, as...
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The Bartered Bride, an evergreen of Czech theatre and one of the icons of Czech culture in general, has been staged at the National Theatre virtually continuously from the very beginning up to the present day. In recent years it has already become a tradition that each new artistic management of the opera has created their own production of The...
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L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) dating from 1832 is not only one of Donizetti’s most popular operas but also one of the most popular comic operas there is. The librettist Felice Romani made use of Eugene Scribe’s libretto to Daniel Auber’s opera Le philtre (1831) and the action is a comic paraphrase of the legend of...
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It is high time that Katherina, a young woman from a good family, got married. Yet no one wants her, since she is disorderly, bad-tempered, quarrelsome, unmanageable, simply difficult. Her younger sister Bianca, on the other hand, who behaves exactly as a maiden should, is much sought after by wooers. Bianca, however, cannot marry before Katherina...
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The National Theatre Ballet is linking up to the tradition of staging ballets by the celebrated choreographer John Cranko, and Onegin is undoubtedly one of his paramount works. The ballet, based on A. S. Pushkin's famous novel in verse, tells the story of a world-weary Russian aristocrat who spurns the love of the young girl Tatiana and gives...
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The Servant of Two Masters is a ripe fruit of commedie dell'arte, possessing traditional characters and situations. It takes place within a narrow family framework, with the main event being a betrothal that is complicated by the servant Truffaldino, wily and dull-witted at the same time. He sets in motion a comedy of mistaken identities and...
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“Moves” – our movement in space and time – are equally important for our life as the occasional “stops” – moments of silence when we have the opportunity to look within, into the soul. Our own or someone else’s. This is what characterises this evening. Two extensive choreographies of an abstract...
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