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Moscow City Ballet UK Tour 2007
14 January to 26 February 2008
In its 17th UK Tour Moscow City Ballet performed five ballets: the passionate and bittersweet story of Romeo and Juliet by Victor Smirnov-Golovanov... the traditional Russian version of Cinderella... an enchanting and romantic The Sleeping Beauty... the breathtakingly powerful Swan Lake... and the strange and magical The Nutcracker.
Bolshoi Ballet 2007 season
London Coliseum
30 July to 18 August 2007
Following last summer's award winning performances, Russia's incomparable Bolshoi Ballet returns to London this summer, performing a dazzling three-week season at the London Coliseum, presented by Victor Hochhauser.
La Scala Ballet 2007
The Royal Opera House
25 to 29 July 2007
Six years after its first spectacular visit, the celebrated La Scala Ballet returned to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under the direction of its Artistic Director, Frédéric Olivieri, with Rudolf Nureyev's acclaimed production of The Sleeping Beauty.
Moscow City Ballet UK Tour 2007
15 January to 17 March 2007
In its 16th UK Tour Moscow City Ballet performed five ballets: the passionate and bittersweet story of Romeo and Juliet by Victor Smirnov-Golovanov, the traditional Russian version of Cinderella, an enchanting and romantic The Sleeping Beauty, the breathtakingly powerful Swan Lake, and Drosselmeyer's strange and magical The Nutcracker.
Bolshoi Opera and Ballet 2006 Season
The Royal Opera House, Covent garden
25 July to 19 August 2006
Russia’s great Bolshoi Ballet marked the 50th anniversary of their first visit to the UK. The magnificent Bolshoi Opera made its first ever visit to the Royal Opera House. The season was a spectacular success, with a wide range of highly acclaimed productions playing to sell-out houses.
Bolshoi Ballet UK Tour 2006
Birmingham – Salford – Nottingham – Southampton
28 March to 22 April 2006
Following the success of their 2004 visit to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Bolshoi Ballet returned to the UK for their first regional tour in over 16 years. Audiences nationwide had an opportunity to see some of their most spectacular productions - Swan Lake, Spartacus and Giselle.
Moscow City Ballet UK Tour 2005 - 2006
17 October 2005 to 11 March 2006
One of Russia's leading ballet companies, Moscow City Ballet returned to the UK in the autumn of 2005. Among the five ballets from their immensely popular programme was the new version of the bittersweet story of Romeo and Juliet by the distinguished Russian Choreographer Victor Smirnov-Golovanov, set to Prokofiev’s magnificent score.
The Kirov Opera and Ballet 2005
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Monday 18 July to Saturday 6 August 2005
Valery Gergiev's artistic leadership of St. Petersburg ’s Mariinsky Theatre and its resident companies – The Kirov Opera and The Kirov Ballet – has made it one of the world’s leading lyric theatres.
The Ballet programme saw the welcome return of Uliana Lopatkina in Swan Lake, an all-Forsythe programme and a new Balanchine triple-bill, and Lavrovsky’s Romeo & Juliet and Petipa’s La Bayadère. Valery Gergiev conducted seven performances of The Kirov Opera, including Boris Godunov and Turandot.
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Barbican Centre, London
Thursday 16 June 2005
Universally hailed as one of the finest orchestras in the world, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra returned with Maestro Zubin Mehta, the Music Director with whom the orchestra has enjoyed an extraordinary collaboration for over forty years. The programme of classical masterworks displayed this great orchestra at its best, the soloist in the Beethoven Violin Concerto, the brilliant young Danish Israeli violinist, Nikolaj Znaider.
Moscow City Ballet UK Tour
October 2004 to March 2005
Victor Hochhauser welcomed the return of the Moscow City Ballet in a tour which saw them perform five ballets: the traditional Russian version of Cinderella, the breathtakingly powerful Swan Lake, the sumptuous world of Drosselmeyer's strange and magical The Nutcracker, the enchanting and romantic The Sleeping Beauty and the beautiful, serene but intensely dramatic Giselle.
Shlomo Mintz plays Mozart
Barbican Centre, London
Wednesday 2 February 2005
One of the foremost violinists of our time, Shlomo Mintz, and the English Chamber Orchestra perform Mozart's Violin Concerto No 4 in D, Violin Concerto No 5 in A,and Symphony No 41 in C ‘Jupiter’.
Hungarian National Opera and Ballet
Sadlers Wells Theatre
4 to 6 October
2004
The Hungarian National Opera and Ballet performed
in a double-bill of two of Bartók's greatest masterpieces,
Bluebeard's Castle and The Miraculous Mandarin.
Bolshoi Ballet
Royal Opera House
19 July to 7 August 2004
For the Company's first London season for five years, under its new Artistic Director, Alexei Ratmansky, audiences were invited to participate in a journey through the Bolshoi Ballet's illustrious history and to experience some of its most significant moments.
The season opened with Don Quixote, continued with Yuri Grigorovich's masterpiece production of Swan Lake, Declan Donnellan's electrifiying Romeo & Juliet, and the epic Spartacus, before concluding with one of its oldest works The Pharaoh's Daughter.
Igor & Valery Oistrakh
Barbican Centre
16 May 2004
Fifty years ago, the legendary Russian violinist David Oistrakh gave his first London concert at the Royal Albert Hall. In a concert which included three great masterpieces of the violin repertoire, Igor and Valery Oistrakh celebrated that unforgettable debut in a concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Paco Penã Flamenco Company
Sadler's Wells Theatre
2, 3 May 2004
Once again Paco Peña returned to the Festival Hall with his legendary flamenco company of dancers, singers and guitarists.
With his breathtaking presentation, Paco sweeps us into a world of virtuoso guitar playing, intense singing and the fire of flamenco dancing to give us a complete and enthralling experience.
The Kirov Ballet
The Royal Opera House
21 July to 9 August 2003
The Kirov Ballet performed some of its most sumptuous ballets, as well as three exciting premieres. Swan Lake and Le Corsaire were performed alongside a splendid re-staging of the original Mariinsky Theatre production of La Bayadère, performed in London for the first time. Also performed in London for the first time by The Kirov Ballet was Les Noces, The Rite of Spring and Etudes.
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