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Pittsburgh’s Pride Month is getting its own weekend of opera. The “delightfully queer” June 7 and 8 program doubles as the ...
This fabulously lavish production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece summons a world of luxury and barely concealed brutality ...
Read our review of The Queen of Spades at Garsington Opera, Wormsley. Despite intermittent vocal insecurities, Jack Furness’ staging of Tchaikovsky’s sinister opera carries conviction ...
Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé suite no. 2. Proceeds from the event support the Meadows Impact Scholarship Fund, which provides vital financial assistance ...
The concept behind Daphnis and Chloe is, at least on paper, a sound one. Orchestras are fairly static and ballet is traditionally ground based so contrasting both with the high-flying movements of ...
But these were less to do with either the erotic tension of Ravel’s myth-inspired ballet Daphnis and Chloé, or the doom-laden dancing-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss of the composer’s La Valse and ...
Their presentation of Ravel’s rarely performed Daphnis and Chloé is a challenging choice. Created for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and premiered in 1912, the work, with choreography by Fokine ...
The opening show of the adventurous Multitudes Festival at the Southbank, for one night only, is Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, his so-called choreographic symphony of 1912, Diaghilev’s commission for the ...
Here’s an insight into the Vivienne Westwood India show featuring SS25 designs with Indian handwoven fabrics, archival pieces ...
She wore an ivory silk corset featuring François Boucher’s 18th-century painting “Daphnis and Chloe”, a landmark design from Westwood’s 1990-91 Portrait Collection. The sleeveless corset featured a ...
The all-Ravel second half — “Rapsodie espagnole” and “Daphnis et Chloé” Suite No. 2 — fared worse, with widespread ensemble issues much more conspicuous than the CSO’s usual standard.