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ArtsJournal: music
2019-08-26 22:01:53
The International Ballet Competition That Feels More Like Summer Camp
“What qualifies as artistry is ultimately a subjective assessment. Winning medals – or not winning them – has little bearing on whether a dancer will progress to a successful career. Even so, the Genée competition maintains high standards. The coveted gold medal is sometimes withheld if the judges decide no one has achieved the required […]
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Royal Opera House
2019-05-15 09:33:04
Royal Opera House to host Royal Academy of Dance's prestigious ballet competition in September 2020
Francesca Hayward at the Genee Competition © Elliott Franks The Royal Opera House will host the Royal Academy of Dance's prestigious ballet competition for the first time in September 2020. The competition, formerly known as the Genée will be renamed the Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition effective from 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of...
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ArtsJournal: music
2017-02-15 22:35:41
Lincoln Center Snapshot: Bing, Bernstein, and Balanchine Fifty Years Later
By Joseph Horowitz Fifty years ago an instantly iconic photograph was taken of Rudolf Bing, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, Leonard Bernstein, music director of the New York Philharmonic, and George Balanchine, artistic director of New York City Ballet. They are posed in front of Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall. The Met is about to inaugurate its new home, completing the move to Lincoln Center of the three main institutional constituents. Bing stands alongside a poster brandishing the sold-out world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, inaugurating the New Met. Bernstein (with cigarette) stands alongside a poster showing the sold-out run of a subscription program comprising an obscure Beethoven overture, William Schuman’s String Symphony, and Mahler’s First (not yet a repertoire staple). A City Ballet poster, to the rear, announces the dates of the Fall season. So depicted, three performing arts leaders – all of them famously strong personalities […]
2016-02-29 09:50:30
Taking risks in order to find a new perspective or truth is one thing. Taking risks simply for the sake of takings risks is another. Ellen Kent’s production of Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus at Oxford’s New Theatre, originally performed in 2006, and now on tour throughout the country, is unfortunately the latter. Ruth and Thomas Martin translated the original German libretto by Karl Heffner and Richard Genée into English, also working from a Soviet-Era Russian translation of the German original. Despite retaining the original plot and being nominally set in Vienna in 1800, it included tangential and jarring references to the present day, as well as incorporating spoken dialogue by Olga Gusan, adapted by Ellen Kent. Though not a purist, and therefore inclined to dislike the English translation on principle, I found the translation problematic. The sounds of the words of a libretto and their relationship to the […]