Podcasts about mariinsky

El ballet más conocido de San Petersburgo, el del Teatro Mariinski y que durante varias décadas se llamó Kirov, es uno de los más importantes del mundo y hoy queremos recordar algunas de las piezas más destacadas que han bailado en sus más de 280 años de historia. Son obras compuestas por Von Weber, Minkus, Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakoff y Stravinski, así que la belleza de la música está absolutamente garantizada. Además, como este ballet vino a España en 2 ocasiones en los años 90, hemos invitado a Virginia Eshelman, quien trabajó duro en sendas ocasiones para que el traslado de personas y materiales se hiciera en el menor tiempo posible, con los inconvenientes lógicos que siempre aparecen en estas aventuras musicales. Ella nos cuenta muchas anécdotas interesantes en esta nueva entrega de Hoy Toca, el programa de Clásica FM que te quiere sorprender.

Hello Everyone! I am so excited for this episode as we are speaking with the very kind and humble Chloë who has had contract after contract offered to her. You may think she's very lucky but it's all down to her hard work!. Her go with the flow attitude and strong will, I'm convinced has been the catalyst to her success in this industry! We resonated a lot talking about Russia and Mariinsky and how hard it was for her to leave when covid happened finding new ground now In Amsterdam sharing a dressing room with legend and former school mate of mine Olga Smirnova. Let's meet Chloë! Follow on Social media @balletwithisabella Instagram | Youtube | Facebook www.balletwithisabella.com Elite Classes and Courses from Beg - Pro! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/a-dancers-mindset/message

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, hizo una visita no anunciada a Kiev el lunes para reunirse con el presidente, Volodimir Zelensky, en un llamativo gesto de solidaridad unos días antes de que se cumpla un año de la invasión rusa en el paísBiden se reunió con Zelensky en el Palacio Mariinsky, donde rindió homenaje a los soldados caídos del país y se entrevistó con el personal de la embajada estadounidense.“Y Ucrania resiste. La democracia resiste. Los estadounidenses se alzan con ustedes y el mundo se alza con ustedes”, mencionó el mandatario.De esto y más, nos habla Adriana Braniff en su Comentario Internacional.

Hello Everyone, Today we will be speaking with Victor Caixeta. Victor is an amazing Brazilian dancer who went to Mariinsky after being discovered at The Moscow ballet competition! Since then, he's gone on to new heights, achieving solo roles at The Mariinsky and becoming a soloist. Now at Het National Ballet. We are here to hear about his experiences in Russia and his decision to leave. Follow us on Social Media - Instagram | Youtube | Facebook | Tiktok @balletwithisabella For all guest episodes - follow my new podcast The Principal Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/3HEqGIO0s1IEoSpgeHj6Qp?si=82116164e99b4fd6 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/a-dancers-mindset/message

A transcript of this episode is available here: https://thedanceedit.com/transcript-episode-109Subscribe to The Dance Edit Extra: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dance-edit-extra/id1579075769Links referenced in/relevant to episode 109:-Washington Post article on Putin's proposed merging of Bolshoi and Mariinsky: https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/03/25/putin-bolshoi-mariinsky-gergiev/-Information about the iHeartDance NYC Ukraine benefit: https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/iHeartDance-NYC-Announces-One-Night-Only-Evening-of-Dance-To-Raise-Funds-For-Ukraine-20220322-Hyperallergic feature on NYC's proposed cuts to culture funding: https://hyperallergic.com/718666/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-proposes-slashing-culture-funds-by-72-million/-Ariana DeBose's Oscars acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqeXEgZO_II-NPR story on DeBose's historic moment: https://www.npr.org/2022/03/27/1088846361/ariana-debose-oscar-best-supporting-actress-Beyoncé's "Be Alive" Oscars performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aeDlZOD-B0-"Dos Oruguitas" Oscars performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Dl8K6RBcc-"We Don't Talk About Bruno" Oscars performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ62TFSQUGI-Credit the Creator post on the choreographers of this year's films: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbqE81tvJuI/-Los Angeles Times feature on the lost generation of arts workers: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-03-24/pandemic-artists-theater-lost-generation

St. Petersburg in my eyes is the most spectacular city on our planet. The Winter Palace, the Hermitage, Catherine Palace, and Peterhof in St. Petersburg define imperial affluence. If I were to see only one city in the entire world, it would be St. Petersburg. Venice of the North. With their magnificent museums and palaces, large and lush gardens, Paris, London, Rome, and Madrid have been the most popular destinations for discerning tourists. And then there are other great European cities like Venice, Milan, Lisbon, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, most with meticulously planned public spaces, some with delightful waterfronts and aesthetic bridges, and almost all with towering churches, spacious plazas, and famous statues and monuments that are architectural masterpieces. Major parts of these beautiful cities have grown organically over centuries. Now imagine a brand-new city planned and developed from scratch and combining some of the best features of the famous older European cities. That was the dream of Tsar Peter the Great. He wanted the best of European art and architecture in one place, his place. So 300 years ago, in the year 1703, he specially commissioned some of the greatest architects of Europe to build for him the city of his dreams. They did exactly what he had in mind and thus was born St. Petersburg. It is simply unmatched in its beauty. If you have been here before, you would want to come back again and again. St. Petersburg is the nation's cultural capital, rich and diverse in its offerings. It has an astounding number of public facilities—221 museums, 2,000 libraries, more than 80 theaters, and 100 concert organizations. It is home to the Hermitage, one of the greatest art museums in the world, on par with the celebrated Louvre in Paris. Also located here is the world-famous Kirov Dance Company (now Mariinsky), the greatest center of music and ballet and historically, home of brilliant dancers like Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail Baryshnikov who are admired throughout the world. Among the innumerable tourist attractions here, the biggest appeal is for the former imperial residences like Peterhof with its majestic fountain cascades and paradise-like parks, and Tsarskoe Selo which has the impeccable Catherine Palace of stunning baroque design.

Eté 2019 Kiev, capitale de l'Ukraine.Un soleil radieux brille sur le palais Mariinsky, La résidence présidentielle est en ébullition. Un nouveau président vient d'être élu.Un groupe de journalistes trépigne d'impatience devant ce palais baroque, peint en bleu, comme le bleu du drapeau ukrainien.Une porte s'ouvre avec fracas. Il est là : le nouveau président apparaît ! L'homme lève la tête, il écarquille les yeux et sa bouche s'arrondit… En voilà une surprise, il ne s'attendait pas à se trouver face aux journalistes ! Un éclat de rire s'empare de l'assistance. Il se précipite vers eux, main tendue. « Salut, salut, Je suis très content de vous voir ici ! » Le protocole vole en éclats. Volodimir Zelensky ressemble à un grand gosse et sa bonne humeur est contagieuse. Il n'a pas l'attitude solennelle d'un chef d'État. Texte : Claudia ValenciaVoix : Boris RehlingerEncore plus de Podcast à écouter ici sur PODCAST STORY

Hoy en Carrusel de las artes, les comentamos sobre el “telón de hierro” que se ha cernido sobre la cultura y los artistas rusos tras la invasión de Rusia a territorio ucranio. Fuimos al Museo de Artes decorativas, museo que expone por primera vez en suelo francés el manuscrito de El Principito. Les hablaremos de dos películas entre los estrenos del cine francés, y escucharemos al pianista francés Sofiane Pamart, uno de los artistas del concierto por la paz en Ucrania que tuvo lugar en París. La invasión rusa a Ucrania ha provocado el estupor internacional pero también un terremoto en el mundo cultural. Numerosas instituciones artísticas han decidido realizar un boicot a los artistas rusos. Uno de los primeros sobre quien se abatió el telón de hierro fue el afamado director de orquesta ruso Valéry Gergiev, estrecho amigo de Vladimir Putin. A los pocos días de comenzada la invasión de ucrania, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Múnich y el Festival de Verbier, en Suiza, decidieron despedir al director ruso. Algo similar sucedió con la súper estrella del arte lirico, la soprano rusa Anna Netrebtko, quien fue declarada persona non grata. Instituciones prestigiosas financiadas por el Kremlin como el ballet Bolshoi o el Mariinsky han visto anuladas sus presentaciones en Occidente. Otras figuras rusas han decidido tomar distancia del régimen ruso e incluso pedir sin ambages el cese de una guerra considerada como una “vergüenza” y un “desastre”. Sobre estas numerosas anulaciones, retiros y peticiones contra el arte y los artistas rusos conversamos con Carlos Huffmann, director del Departamento de Arte de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Al encuentro de ‘El Principito' Por primera vez en la historia, el manuscrito de "El Principito" se encuentra en Francia. La obra cumbre de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hizo un largo viaje desde Estados Unidos para ser expuesta en todo su esplendor ante los ojos del público francés. Este cuento filosófico conocido en el mundo entero fue escrito durante la segunda guerra mundial, cuando el aviador y escritor francés se encontraba exiliado en Nueva York. “Resulta increíble imaginar que este monumento de la literatura francesa que es El principito haya sido escrito en Nueva York y que hoy se conserva en esa ciudad. Tenemos mucha suerte que la Morgan Library nos lo haya prestado para mostrarlo por primera vez a un público europeo”, declaró a RFI la conservadora del Museo de las Artes Decorativas, Anne Monier Vanryb. En efecto, en 1943, antes de partir la guerra, Saint-Exupéry regaló el manuscrito de El Principito a su amiga Silvia Hamilton, quien lo vendió a la Morgan Library más de 20 años después. El manuscrito nunca había salido del territorio estadounidense hasta ahora. Este documento invaluable es la pieza central de la exposición parisina, muestra que se compone de otros 600 documentos, cartas, dibujos, cuadernos de viaje y elementos audiovisuales que exhiben al público bajo un techo lleno de estrellas, lo que recuerda el universo fantástico del relato. La exposición explica los elementos autobiográficos que se rescatan en el cuento, como la relación complicada entre el autor y su esposa Consuelo. Le exposición se termina en una sala donde se exponen ejemplares del cuento en diversas lenguas o dialectos indígenas, como el guaraní o el toba. Como se explica este éxito planetario. La respuesta de Anne Monier Vanryb. “No me extraña en lo absoluto porque El Principito encierra un mensaje humanista: el de ir al encuentro del prójimo. Pero es cierto que cuando el cuento fue publicado por primera vez en Europa, por Gallimard, en 1946, y luego en otras lenguas, traía un mensaje necesario. Europa estaba saliendo de la segunda guerra mundial y hacía falta un mensaje de esperanza. El libro se fue transmitiendo de generación en generación. Es un cuento que uno tiene ganas de compartir. Por último, entre el aviador, el principito, el zorro o la rosa, cada quien puede identificarse con alguno de los personajes. Por eso, es universal”, concluyó Monier Vanryb. La exposición “Al encuentro de El Principito” podrá verse hasta finales de junio en el Museo de las Artes Decorativas de París. Estrenos de cine francés Llega a las salas “Petite nature”, un drama social que relata la historia de Johnny, un niño precoz de 10 años, que vive que con madre soltera y sus dos hermanos en un barrio de bajos recursos. Su profesor de escuela lo toma bajo su ala al darse cuenta del potencial, la sensibilidad y gran madurez de Johnny. Pero el interés de su profesor es interpretado por el niño de otra forma, suscitando en él un choque emocional. Una película el despertar sensual en la infancia, abordado aquí con una gran delicadeza. También en las salas francesas esta semana “Goliat”, un drama sobre la utilización masiva de los pesticidas en la agricultura. “Goliath” es una película coral con tres personajes principales, una militante contra los productos químicos en la agricultura, un abogado especialista del derecho agrícola, y un ambicioso defensor de los fabricantes de pesticidas. Un trio cuyos destinos se entrecruzan cuando se descubren las dramáticas repercusiones de los pesticidas en la salud de los agricultores. Música por la paz Terminamos este Carrusel de las artes ofreciéndoles un poco de lo que fue el concierto por la paz en Ucrania que tuvo lugar en la Casa de la Radio de París, en asociación con la Cruz Roja Francesa. Una velada en la que se sucedieron cantantes y artistas franceses para decir no a la guerra. Los dejamos con el pianista francés Sofiane Pamart y este tema “Love”, esperando que su música pueda calmar a quienes hoy sufren por la guerra en Ucrania.

About Pietra Mello-PittmanPietra was one of the rare few to win a place with the Royal Ballet Company after entering full-time ballet training, with the Royal Ballet School, at the latest possible stage at 16 years old. She performed all the classics, created roles in new productions, and has performed all over the world with the Royal Ballet including at The Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres in Russia and in Cuba with Carlos Acosta.About this episodeIn this episode, Pietra discusses her journey from training as a ballet dancer to winning a place with the Royal Ballet Company to now becoming a producer for ballet plays. She talks about the difference between performing on stage as a ballet dancer and working behind the scenes as a producer.Grab something to drink, and tune in for an exciting conversation!Quotes"We found new ways of continuing our mission and purpose to celebrate coaches and to spotlight things.""The purpose of the exhibition is we'd like everyone to connect to more nature, to the local nature, to get more and find that balance between a busy life and the nature around them.""It has inspired us to continue using the arts in our way to make a positive impact on communities and societies and coaches.""To be even more courageous, not listen to the people that might put you down or have doubts about what you believe you know you can achieve.""If you feel uncomfortable, if you feel like somebody is diminishing your worth, do not just be a silent flower about it, to acknowledge it and to move on and definitely to be stronger in your behavior purpose everything, so just to be more confident."Useful LinksWebsite: https://sisters-grimm.co.uk/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sistersgrimmshowsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersgrimmltdTwitter:      https://twitter.com/EllaPietraYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SistersGrimm/featured

He is a conductor who has fast established himself as a versatile artist covering the symphonic, operatic and ballet genres. He's made a splash in Europe with such orchestras as the Mariinsky, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and the Odessa National Philharmonic. He and his wife, soprano Eleanor Lyons, have more recently created Live at Yours, an exciting and ever growing project, bringing top quality artists to unique and intimate settings. Vladimir speaks with Simon Moore about the creation and development of Live at Yours, regales us with tales of studying in St Petersburg and working with luminaries like Simone Young and Iván Fischer, plus providing some significant insights into the creative process. This episode is an extended version of the broadcast edition, with additional interview content.

Pietra De Mello-Pittman MBE and Ella Louvaine Spira MBE are the co-founders of Sisters Grimm and this is a conversation this dynamic duo had with James Piecowye. Motivating, inspiring and WOW are all words that you might use to describe these ladies. Ella Louvaine Spira MBE is a London & Dubai-based Grammy-nominated composer, theatre producer and painter. She has dedicated her life to cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary, global collaborations spotlighting and celebrating different cultures through the arts. Her passion and drive for representing other cultures, has seen her work and those cultures be celebrated by millions all over the world. To write about everything Spira has done and achieved would be a book, but there are Grammy nominations, award-winning world-touring live cultural theatre productions, millions of YouTube hits, mass participation social Impact initiatives and now a Golden Jubilee Fine Art Series and exclusive NFT drop. Pietra Mello-Pittman was born in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian mother and English father. Growing up in England she trained in both Ice skating and Ballet to the point at which Pietra had to choose her path. Pietra was one of the rare few to win a place with the Royal Ballet Company after entering full-time ballet training, with the Royal Ballet School, at the latest possible stage at 16 years old. She performed all the classics, created roles in new productions and has performed all over the world with the Royal Ballet including at The Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres in Russia and in Cuba with Carlos Acosta. After winning the Ursula Morton Choreography Competition in 2001, while at the Royal Ballet School in London, Pietra started on the path to becoming a producer through her subsequent choreographies. Passionate about cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary collaborations and carrying with her, the high standards she is accustomed to from her 13-year professional life as a ballerina, Pietra retired from the Royal Ballet in 2015 to focus on producing for Sisters Grimm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podaholiks/message

Pietra De Mello-Pittman MBE and Ella Louvaine Spira MBE are the co-founders of Sisters Grimm and this is a conversation this dynamic duo had with me. Motivating, inspiring and WOW are all words that you might use to describe these ladies. Ella Louvaine Spira MBE is a London & Dubai-based Grammy-nominated composer, theatre producer and painter. She has dedicated her life to cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary, global collaborations spotlighting and celebrating different cultures through the arts. Her passion and drive for representing other cultures, has seen her work and those cultures be celebrated by millions all over the world. To write about everything Spira has done and achieved would be a book, but there are Grammy nominations, award-winning world-touring live cultural theatre productions, millions of YouTube hits, mass participation social Impact initiatives and now a Golden Jubilee Fine Art Series and exclusive NFT drop. Pietra Mello-Pittman was born in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian mother and English father. Growing up in England she trained in both Ice skating and Ballet to the point at which Pietra had to choose her path. Pietra was one of the rare few to win a place with the Royal Ballet Company after entering full-time ballet training, with the Royal Ballet School, at the latest possible stage at 16 years old. She performed all the classics, created roles in new productions and has performed all over the world with the Royal Ballet including at The Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres in Russia and in Cuba with Carlos Acosta. After winning the Ursula Morton Choreography Competition in 2001, while at the Royal Ballet School in London, Pietra started on the path to becoming a producer through her subsequent choreographies. Passionate about cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary collaborations and carrying with her, the high standards she is accustomed to from her 13-year professional life as a ballerina, Pietra retired from the Royal Ballet in 2015 to focus on producing for Sisters Grimm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejamescast/message

La Bayadère est créée en 1877 au Théâtre impérial de Saint Pétersbourg. La chorégraphie est signée Marius Petipa, sur une musique de Ludwig Minkus. Mais pourquoi ce ballet a-t-il tant marqué Rudolf Noureev, tout jeune soliste du Ballet du Mariinsky ?

In 1911, when Vaslav Nijinsky returned from Paris to dance at the Mariinsky, his revealing costume raised eyebrows in the Tsar's box...

Die «Schottische» und das Violinkonzert von Sibelius! Ein zweiter Abend mit Valery Gergiev und seinem Orchester des Mariinsky-Theaters St. Petersburg. Mit Alexandra Conunova und ihrer kraftvollen und zugleich warmen Spielweise wird eine Idealbesetzung an der Violine im Konzert von Sibelius mitwirken. Die gebürtige Moldawierin, die in der Schweiz lebt und zum ersten Schülerjahrgang von Renaud Capuçon an der Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne gehörte, schaffte 2012 ihren künstlerischen Durchbruch mit dem Gewinn des ersten Preises beim Joseph Joachim Violinwettbewerb Hannover, der drei Jahre später durch einen dritten Preis beim Tschaikowsky-Wettbewerb in Moskau untermauert wurde.

Es ist immer ein grosses Ereignis, wenn Valery Gergiev die Bühne betritt. Vor allem dann, wenn er sein Orchester des Mariinski-Theaters St. Petersburg durch Meisterwerke der russischen Orchesterkunst wie die «Romeo und Julia»-Ballettmusik von Prokofjew führt. Zusätzlich wird einer der neuen Menuhin's Heritage Artists, Alexandre Kantorow, die Tasten für das 2. Klavierkonzert von Prokofjew zum Klingen bringen. Der junge Pianist, Sohn des Geigers und Dirigenten Jean-Jacques Kantorow, ist eine wahre Offenbarung. Als erster Franzose gewann er 2019 den renommierten Tschaikowsky-Wettbewerb in Moskau und erhielt im darauffolgenden Jahr für seine Einspielung des «Ägyptischen Konzerts» von Saint-Saëns, seinem Lieblingskomponisten (neben Brahms), den Victoire de la Musique.

L'«Ecossaise» et le Concerto pour violon de Sibelius: une seconde soirée dans les étoiles pour Valery Gergiev et son orchestre du Mariinski de Saint-Pétersbourg. Avec le concours d'une violoniste idéale dans ce répertoire, au jeu puissant et chaleureux à la fois: Alexandra Conunova. Moldave de naissance installée en Suisse, ayant fait partie de la première volée d'élèves de Renaud Capuçon à la Haute école de musique de Lausanne, la jeune artiste perce en 2012 en remportant le premier prix du Concours Joseph Joachim de Hanovre, confirmé trois ans plus tard par un 3e prix au Concours Tchaïkovski de Moscou.Assurez-vous ici la meilleure place pour une soirée inoubliable à Gstaad: [https://www.gstaadmenuhinfestival.ch/fr/programme-and-location/programme-2021](https://www.gstaadmenuhinfestival.ch/fr/programme-and-location/programme-2021)

La présence de Valery Gergiev sur le podium est toujours un événement. Surtout lorsqu'il conduit ses troupes du Mariinski de Saint-Pétersbourg dans des chefs-d'œuvre de l'art orchestral russe comme la musique de ballet pour «Roméo et Juliette» de Prokofiev. En sus: le Deuxième concerto pour piano du même Prokofiev sous les doigts d'un des nouveaux Menuhin's Heritage Artists, Alexandre Kantorow. Fils du violoniste et chef d'orchestre Jean-Jacques Kantorow, le jeune pianiste fait figure de véritable révélation. Premier Français à remporter le prestigieux Concours Tchaïkovski de Moscou en 2019, il reçoit l'année suivante une Victoire de la musique pour son enregistrement de «L'Egyptien» de Saint-Saëns, son compositeur fétiche (avec Brahms).

Today I am talking to pianist Peter Jablonski. We discuss piano repertoire in and outside the canon, how careers take time to develop, and wonder about the influence of social media on the longevity of a career in music.Peter Jablonski is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Claudio Abbado and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, Jablonski went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world's leading orchestras and conductors, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zürich, Orchestre National de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra; Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung. Jablonski has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all ten piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed an ‘unconventional virtuoso' (Present Arts), during his three-decade-long career, Jablonski developed a diverse repertoire that includes works by Barber, Gershwin, Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Copland, Stenhammar, with most recent additions of such Scandinavian and European composers as Valborg Aulin, Elfrida Andrée, Laura Netzel, Johanna Müller-Hermann, Grażyna Bacewicz, and Alexey Stanchinsky.  Composers with whom Jablonski worked include Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt, and he has had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar's Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. Jablonski remains a supporter of today's composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works, together with those that have been neglected by music history. Jablonski's extensive discography includes recordings he has made for labels such as Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Altara, Octavia, and Ondine. He received numerous accolades for his recordings, which include the Edison and the Grammophone Classical Music Award.Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of the prestigious prize Årets Svensk i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren. www.peterjablonski.comTwitter: @Jablonski_Phttps://www.ondine.net/?lid=en&cid=2.2&oid=6707

Maria Khoreva, superestrella del mundo del ballet y las redes sociales, también conocida en Instagram como Marachok, ha venido a Soundance Podcast.Desde San Petersburgo platicamos de cómo vivió su confinamiento, cómo fue su primera función después de estar sin bailar tanto tiempo, su nuevo libro, su canal de Youtube, los papeles que más la han hecho crecer y cómo lidia con sus inseguridades para mantenerse motivada. También nos contó cosas muy interesantes sobre cómo se siente de estar protagonizando ya, a sus 20 años, muchos de los grandes ballets de una de las compañías más importantes del mundo.¡Aquí la tienen!https://www.instagram.com/marachok/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffAKmQG_O6ev6gcuJ1bM0w

durée : 00:12:34 - Silver age : Scriabine, Stravinsky, Prokofiev - Daniil Trifonov - Un très grand disque que le dernier enregistrement de Daniil Trifonov autour de Prokofiev, Stravinsky et Scriabine. Interprété avec l'Orchestre du Mariinsky, ce programme imposant témoigne de cet "âge d'argent" où ces trois compositeurs ont bouleversé l'histoire musicale de la Russie.

Links referenced in/relevant to this episode:-Dance Studies Association's call-to-anti-racist-action: https://dancestudiesassociation.org/news/2020/departmental-call-to-anti-racist-action-Jennifer Garner's duet with Tiler Peck: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEKTlfNDiF_/-A look at the uncertainties around this year's Tony Awards: https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/nine-burning-questions-about-the-2020-tony-awards-082520-Inside the Mariinsky Ballet's COVID muddle: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/dance/mariinsky-ballet-coronavirus-outbreak.html-High Country News' interview with Dancing Earth founder Rulan Tangen: https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-interview-finding-indigenous-futurism-through-dance-Dancing Earth's events and online offerings: https://dancingearth.org/events?view=calendar&month=09-2020-The Dance Institute of Washington's site: https://www.danceinstituteofwashington.org/-Op-ed by DIW's William Keiser, "Widening the Frame": https://www.danceinstituteofwashington.org/op-ed-widening-the-frame-DIW's short film, "Feeling Good": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPD9CAJ-Zs&t=9s

James chats with British dancer Xander Parish about his rise to principal dancer at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. They discuss hot topics such as Russian culture, Sergei Polunin, and more.   Premier Dance Network website   James on Instagram JamesWhiteside.org Upcoming Performances

I programmet; musik av Stravinsky under Chailly, Bachs soloviolinverk på gitarr, Mozarts Requiem med René Jacobs på pulten samt viola-toner framförda av Nils Mönkemeyer. Tollgerdt i möte med Saariaho. I panelen Boel Adler, Nicholas Ringskog Ferrada-Noli och Tony Lundman som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: WILLIAM WALTON MAX BRUCH ARVO PÄRT Violakonsert Kol Nidrei Romance Fratres Nils Mönkemeyer, viola Bambergs symfoniker Markus Poschner, dirigent Sony 88985360192 W A MOZART Requiem Sofie Karthäuser, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Maximilian Schmitt, Johannes Weisser RIAS Kammarkör Freiburgs barockorkester René Jacobs, dirigent Harmonia Mundi HMM 902291 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Bach Sei Solo Sonater och Partitor BWV 1001-1006 i arr för gitarr Mats Bergström, gitarr Mats Bergström Musik AB MBCD 05 IGOR STRAVINSKY Chant funèbre, Feu dartifice, Le Sacre du printemps m.fl. Sophie Koch, mezzo-sopran Lucern-festivalens orkester Riccardo Chailly, dirigent Decca 4832562 Johan Tollgerdt möter Kaija Saariaho Johan träffade kompositören i hennes hem i Paris, för ett samtal om den fjärde och senaste operan Only the Sound remains som hade premiär  på Garnier-operan i Paris i januari. Operan finns också i en inspelning på DVD, på märket Erato.  Referensen  Våroffer Johan jämför med och refererar till en inspelning av Stravinskys Våroffer med Cleveland-orkestern ledd av Riccardo Chailly inspelad 1987 på märket Decca.  Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar: Nils Mönkemeyers inspelning Without Words tillsammans med pianisten Nicholas Rimmer inspelad på Sony. Waltons violakonsert med solisten William Primrose tillsammans med Philharmonia Orchestra, London under kompositören själv på märke Naxos samt med Jurij Basjmet och Sovjetunionens statliga symfoniorkester ledda av Gennadij Rozjdestvenskij på skivmärket Revelation. Mozarts Requiem med solister, Wiener Singverein och Wiens filharmoniker dirigerade av Herbert von Karajan på DGG. Stravinskys Chant funèbre med Philharmonia Orchestra, London ledd av Esa-Pekka Salonen (Youtube); med Mariinsky-teaterns orkester, S:t Petersburg under Valery Gergiev (Youtube) samt med Berlins filharmoniker dirigerad av Simon Rattle (Berlins filharmonikers Digitala konserthus). Stravinskys Våroffer med Cleveland-orkestern ledd av Riccardo Chailly på Decca (Referensen) med Mariinsky-teaterns orkester ledd av Valery Gergiev på Decca; Londons symfoniorkester ledd av Leonard Bernstein på ICA Classics; Philharmonia Orchestra, London under Igor Markevitch på Testament och RIAS symfoniorkester, Berlin också under Igor Markevitch på skivmärket Audite; med San Franciscos symfoniorkester dirigerad av Michael Tilson Thomas på RCA; Bostons symfoniorkester ledd av Michael Tilson Thomas på DGG samt med Berlins filharmoniker ledd av Bernard Haitink på Philips.  Inget Svep denna vecka

I programmet diskuteras Brahms serenader med Gävle symfoniorkester, norska verk med trumpet i fokus, Frank Almond spelar på 300-årig violin samt Prokofjevs Romeo och Julia med Petrenko på pulten. I panelen Camilla Lundberg, Kalle Moraeus och Tony Lundman som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor:  JOHANNES BRAHMS Serenader Gävle symfoniorkester Jaime Martin, dirigent Ondine ODE 1291-2 VARIATIONS OVER VARIATIONS Musik av Alfred Janson, Jan Erik Mikalsen, Knut Vaage och Maja S. K. Ratkje Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet Norska radions orkester Miguel Harth-Bedoya, dirigent Aurora ACD 5096 A VIOLINS LIFE (2) Musik för violin och piano av Amanda Maier-Röntgen, Eduard Tubin och L v Beethoven Frank Almond, violin William Wolfram, piano Avie AV 2363 SERGEJ PROKOFJEV Romeo och Julia Oslos filharmoniska orkester Vasily Petrenko, dirigent LAWO LWC 1105 Referensen - Prokofjev Johan jämför med och refererar till Sergej Prokofjevs balett Romeo och Julia med Berlins filharmoniker under Esa-Pekka Salonen, inspelad 1988 på skivmärket Sony.  Sofia möter Victoria Borisova-Ollas Sofia Nyblom träffade kompositören i hemmet under takåsarna i Gamla stan i Stockholm inför den stundande premiären av operan Dracula på Stockholmsoperan 28 oktober. Samtalet kretsade bland annat runt komponerandet kring operan, den första symfonin samt  den försenade premiären i Göteborg av den andra symfonin. Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar: Brahms serenader med Londons filharmoniker under ledning av Adrian Boult på EMI; Gewandthausorchester, Leipzig, ledd av Riccardo Chailly på Decca; Concertgebouw-orkestern dirigerad av Bernard Haitink på Philips; Londons symfoniorkester tillsammans med dirigenten Michael Tilson Thomas på Sony samt med New Yorks symfoniker under ledning av Leonard Bernstein på Sony. Griegs Ballad g-moll med Artur Rubinstein på märket RCA. Maier-Röntgens Violinsonat h-moll med Cecilia Zilliacus och Bengt Forsberg på dB Productions. Prokofjevs balett Romeo och Julia i komplett version med Cleveland-orkestern ledd av Lorin Maazel på skivmäket Decca; med Bostons symfoniorkester ledd av Seiji Ozawa på DG; Mariinsky-teaterns orkester, S:t Petersburg under Valerij Gergijev på Philips; Londons symfoniorkester under Valerij Gergijev på LSO Live; Tjeckiska filharmonin ledd av Karel Ancerl på Supraphon samt med Berlins filharmoniker dirigerad av Esa-Pekka Salonen på Columbia och Sony (Referensen). Prokofjevs Violinkonserter nr 1 D-dur och nr 2 g-moll Berlinfilharmonikerna under Herbert von Karajan  spelar Vivaldis Årstiderna med Anne-Sophie Mutter som solist. Svepet Johan sveper över ett album med musik av Camille Saint-Saëns, närmare bestämt Orgelsymfonin och Djurens karneval, Daniele Rossi spelar orgel, Antonio Pappano leder Santa Cecilia-akademins orkester samt spelar också piano tillsammans med Martha Argerich. Inspelad på Warner Classics.

We have a two hour action packed show for you today. D.P. Lyle is back with some friends talking about their latest anthology. Bestselling Author Tasha Alexander, Michael Brandman all join us on the show.  Tasha Alexander "A Death in St. Petersburg":  After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night’s performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina’s body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry— “Nemetseva is dead!” Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment from the Crown. But it soon becomes clear that Colin isn’t the only one with work to do. When the dead ballerina’s aristocratic lover comes begging for justice, Emily must apply her own set of skills to discover the rising star’s murderer. Her investigation takes her on a dance across the stage of Tsarist Russia, from the opulence of the Winter Palace, to the modest flats of ex-ballerinas and the locked attics of political radicals. A mysterious dancer in white follows closely behind, making waves through St. Petersburg with her surprise performances and trail of red scarves. Is it the sweet Katenka, Nemetseva’s childhood friend and favorite rival? The ghost of the murdered étoile herself? Or, something even more sinister?

We have a two hour action packed show for you today. D.P. Lyle is back with some friends talking about their latest anthology. Bestselling Author Tasha Alexander, Michael Brandman all join us on the show. Tasha Alexander "A Death in St. Petersburg": After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry— "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment from the Crown. But it soon becomes clear that Colin isn't the only one with work to do. When the dead ballerina's aristocratic lover comes begging for justice, Emily must apply her own set of skills to discover the rising star's murderer. Her investigation takes her on a dance across the stage of Tsarist Russia, from the opulence of the Winter Palace, to the modest flats of ex-ballerinas and the locked attics of political radicals. A mysterious dancer in white follows closely behind, making waves through St. Petersburg with her surprise performances and trail of red scarves. Is it the sweet Katenka, Nemetseva's childhood friend and favorite rival? The ghost of the murdered étoile herself? Or, something even more sinister?

Ronald Blumer has written, produced, or co-produced eighty documentary films, including three series with Bill Moyers: “Creativity”, “A Walk Through the Twenty Century” and “The U.S. Constitution”. For PBS, he has written & co-produced the six-part series, “Liberty! The American Revolution”, a three-part mini-series on the life of “Benjamin Franklin” and “American Photography, A Century of Images”. He also co-wrote an episode of Ric Burns' “New York”. Blumer's written a program on the 1929 stock market crash for “The American Experience”, in the PBS series “Dancing” and “Discovering Women”, the Turner Broadcasting series “Portrait of America”, a one-hour dramatic film, and “An Empire of Reason” on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His script for the National Film Board's “Paperland, The Bureaucrat Observed”, won the Canadian Film Academy's award for best non-fiction script. He wrote treatments for a six-hour dramatic series on the life of Prime Minister Mackenzie King for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and for PBS's four-hour special on the life of Lyndon Johnson. He worked on the design and scripted interactive exhibits for the new National Constitution Center in Philadelphia as well as interactive exhibits for “Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World” now touring the country and a video on the history of the First Amendment for the Newseum which opened in Washington, D.C. in 2008. Blumer wrote a NOVA episode on the re-encasement of the founding documents (a short version which is currently showing to all visitors to the National Archives in Washington). He wrote a film on the Mariinsky opera & ballet, “The Sacred Stage”, which premiered at the Kennedy Center. In 2006 he wrote the two part PBS series “The New Medicine”. His two-hour PBS program on the life of Alexander Hamilton was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award in 2008 as was his work “Dolley Madison” in 2011. A U.S. citizen born in Montreal, Canada, Blumer received a Bachelor of Science from McGill University, a Master's degree in Film Production from Boston University and was in the Ph.D. Communications program at McGill University where he was John Grierson's assistant (Grierson coined the word "documentary" film). His articles have been anthologized in various books and publications including film program notes for the Museum of Modern Art. He has written a book on the film director Donald Brittain and co-authored the companion book to The New Medicine. Blumer has taught documentary film research and writing at New York University's Film School. In recent years he has been invited as a guest speaker at the History Departments of Yale University and Princeton University, the films schools of York University in Toronto, The New School in New York and The University of North Texas, Dallas/Fort Worth. He also gave presentations at The American Revolution Round Table, The New York Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and The New York Bar Association. His work has received thirty major awards including five Emmy's and a George Foster Peabody. Ronald is just one of the extraordinary guests featured on The One Way Ticket Show. In the podcast, Host Steven Shalowitz explores with his guests where they'd go if given a one way ticket, no coming back!  Destinations may be in the past, present, future, real, imaginary or a state of mind. Several of Steven's guests have included:  Legendary Talk Show Host, Dick Cavett; CNN's Richard Quest & Bill Weir; Journalist-Humorist-Actor Mo Rocca (CBS Sunday Morning & The Cooking Channel's "My Grandmother's Ravioli"); Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.; as well as leading photographers, artists, writers and more.

I programmet diskuteras bl.a. Schedrins Den vänsterhänte, tillägnad och ledd av Valerij Gergiev samt von Kochs världspremiärer med symfonierna 3 och 4. Curts val behandlar pianisten Alfred Brendel. I panelen Camilla Lundberg, Magnus Lindman och Måns Tengnér som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: RECORDER Musik på olika flöjter av bl.a. J S Bach och van Eyck Kristine West, flöjter Daphne DAPHNE 1055JOHANNES BRAHMS Violinsonat nr 1 och 3, Scherzo WoO 2, Violinsonat nr 2 David Oistrach, violin Frida Bauer/Svjatoslav Richter, piano Praga PRD 250 321ERLAND VON KOCH Symfoni nr 3, Sinfonia Seria (Symfoni nr 4), Impulsi, Nordiskt Capriccio Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester Per Hammarström, dirigent Bis BIS 2169 RODION SCHEDRIN Den vänsterhänte, opera i 2 akter Andrej Popov m.fl. Mariinsky-teaterns kör och orkester Valerij Gergiev, dirigent Mariinsky MAR0554 Curts val Curt Carlsson spelar valda delar ur nyutkommen box, Complete Recordings, med pianisten Alfred Brendels kompletta produktion. Boxen innehåller hela 114 CD och är utgiven på Decca.Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar Brahms violinsonater med Anne-Sophie Mutter och Lambert Orkis på DG; Viktoria Mullova och Piotr Anderszewski på Decca; Josef Suk och Julius Katchen på Decca samt med Leonidas Kavakos och Yuja Wang på Decca. Johan sveper över ett album med Brahms och Bartóks violinkonserter. Janine Jansen är solist och det är Antonio Pappano som leder Londons symfoniorkester respektive Santa Cecilia-akademins orkester i Rom. Skivan är utgiven på Decca.  

Violinisten och kontratenoren Dmitri Sinkovsky både sjunger och spelar Vivaldi, BBC:s kör och orkester framför musik av E. Elgar och Sofia Nyblom möter den georgiska violinisten Lisa Batiashvili. I panelen sitter Bengt Forsberg, David Björkman och Johanna Paulsson som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor:SINKOVSKY PLAYS AND SINGS VIVALDI De fyra årstiderna, Cessate omai cessate, kantat Dmitri Sinkovsky, violin, countertenor och dirigent La Voce Strumentale Naïve OP 30559EDWARD ELGAR Gerontius dröm, Sea Pictures Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar BBCs Symfoniorkester och kör Andrew Davis, dirigent Chandos CHSA 5140SERGEJ PROKOFJEV ARAM CHATJATURIAN Pianokonserter Nareh Arghamanyan, piano Berlin-radions symfoniorkester Alain Altinoglu, dirigent Pentatone PTC 5186 510ANDRZEJ & ROXANNA PANUFNIK Stråkkvartetter nr 1, 2, 3 m.m. Brodsky-kvartetten Chandos CHAN 10839Sofia möter Lisa Batiashvili Sofia Nyblom träffade den georgiska violinisten Lisa Batiashvili under hennes Stockholms-besök i november då hon framträdde som solist i Sibelius violinkonsert tillsammans med Kungl filharmonikerna.Andra nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar- Andrzej Panufniks och Witold Lutoslawskis  stråkkvartetter som jämförelse med Tippett-kvartetten på Naxos. - Andrzej och Roxanna Panufniks musik på samma utgåva, solopianomusik inspelad på Bis. - Prokofjevs tredje pianokonsert med Martha Argerich tillsammans med Berlins filharmoniker och dirigenten Claudio Abbado på DG; Lang Lang och Berlins filharmoniker dirigerade av Simon Rattle på Sony; Alexander Thoradze tillsammans med Mariinsky-teaterns orkester ledda av Valerij Gergijev på Decca. - Chatjaturians pianokonsert med pianisten Alicia de Larrocha och Londons filharmoniker  under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos på Decca; Moura Lympany och Philharmonia Orchestra ledda av Walter Süsskind på Decca samt med William Kapell som solist tillsammans med Bostons symfoniorkester under ledning av Sergej Koussevitsky på Dutton. - Elgars The dream of Gerontius med solister och Londons symfoniorkester allt under Benjamin Britten på Decca; bl a tenoren Jon Vickers RAIs symfoniorkester, Rom dirigerade av John Barbirolli på skivmärket Archipel; bl a Janet Baker och Halléorkestern under John Barbirolli på EMI samt bl a tenoren Justin Lavender och Birminghams symfoniorkester ledda av Sakari Oramo på CBSO.

Rehearsals for the Wyvern Theatre's annual pantomime began on Monday 25 November. Keith Chegwin, who returns to Swindon's number one entertainment venue, will ensure giant laughs will be had by the entire audience from Saturday 7 December 2013 to Sunday 5 January 2014. As the cast continue to rehearse, Lighting Designer Wayne Dowdeswell is working on the show's lighting in the main auditorium. Wayne trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He spent several seasons at Contact Theatre, Manchester before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company where he lit many productions for The Other Place, The Pit and Barbican Theatres. He was Lighting Supervisor for the Swan Theatre where his designs include: The Fair Maid of the West, Every Man in his Humour, A Jovial Crew, Titus Andronicus, The Jew of Malta, The Duchess of Malfi, Edward II, The Seagull, Tamburlaine the Great, The Country Wife, The Roman Actor, Sejanus. RSC lighting designs in the West End include: The Shakespeare Revue (Vaudeville), The Cherry Orchard (Albery), The 'Jacobethan' Season (Gielgud), The Tamer Tamed (Gielgud), The 'Gunpowder' Season (Trafalgar Studios), Breakfast with Mugabe (Duchess), The Canterbury Tales (Gielgud). Wayne has always maintained a thriving freelance design career; productions include: The Vanek Plays (London & Prague), Medea (Wyndham’s and New York), The Birthday Party, Not the End of the World (Bristol Old Vic), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Life of Stuff, Whisky Galore!, Servant o’ Twa Maisters, (Pitlochry Festival), Dr Faustus, The School for Scandal, Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi (Stage on Screen, Greenwich Theatre), Peter Pan, Cinderella, Aladdin (Qdos), Private Peaceful (UK tour & Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Godiva Awakes! (Imagineer Productions), Rising Damp (UK tour) His designs for Opera include: The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Don Giovanni, Madam Butterfly, Falstaff, Katya Kabanova, La Boheme (Longborough Festival Opera), Eugene Onegin, Rinaldo, Madama Butterfly (Grange Park), The Mikado, (D'Oyly Carte, Savoy), Lucia di Lammermoor, (Scottish Opera and Mariinsky, St. Petersburg). Wayne received Olivier Award nominations for Edward II, Tamburlaine the Great and Medea.

Today's episode will be centered around Opera Works & Songs from our classical collection. We have 4 pieces for you today, and we will end with a piece from our featured release, "Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor." Nicolai Ghiaurov, Sesto Bruscantini, Alfredo Kraus, Gundula Janowitz, Sena Jurinac, Walter Monachesi, Dimitri Petkov, Olivera Miliakovic "Don Giovanni" (mp3) from "Mozart: Don Giovanni" (Opera d'Oro) Buy at Napster Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Rhapsody Stream from Rhapsody Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This AlbumSteven Kimbrough, Wolfgang Schmid, Andreas Kreisel "Kommt wieder aus der finst'ren Gruft" (mp3) from "Geistliche Lieder - Sacred Songs of Bach (from the 1736 Songbook of Georg Schemelli)" (Arabesque Recordings) Buy at iTunes Music Store More On This AlbumInessa Galante, Vladimir Choclov, Janis Bulvas "A idise mame" (mp3) from "Goldins: Jewish Folk Songs - Rachmaninov: Romantic Songs" (Campion) Buy at Napster Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Amazon MP3 More On This AlbumValery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Sergei Skorokhodov, Ilya Bannik, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra from "Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor" (Mariinsky) More On This AlbumThe Mariinsky label’s opera recordings have garnered acclaim and awards from around the world, most recently for Valery Gergiev’s recording of Parsifal released in 2010. For the label’s fifth opera, Gergiev conducts Donizetti’s masterpiece with a magnificent cast led by Natalie Dessay. Donizetti’s tragic opera in three acts depicts a family feud set in the Lammermuir hills of Scotland. The opera was premiered on 26 September 1835 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, with the coloratura soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, and a revised version in French followed suit in 1839. Inspired by Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor, the central character of Lucia Ashton (Dessay) is in love with Edgardo di Ravenswood, her brother Enrico’s sworn enemy. With his fortune waning, Lord Enrico plots to force Lucia to marry Lord Arturo Bucklaw, in order to guarantee his continued power. Torn between her family and true love, Lucia submits to her brother’s desires but in turn loses her mind. Lucia’s delicate disposition is tested and results in the famous ‘mad scene’ where Lucia kills her new bridegroom Arturo. Natalie Dessay is one of the world’s most sought-after sopranos and an admired interpreter of lyric heroines. She is particularly renowned for her interpretation of the role of Lucia, which she has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and the Mariinsky Theatre. Future engagements include Verdi’s La Traviata with the LSO at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July and at the Wiener Staatsoper in October. Piotr Beczala is rapidly establishing a reputation as one of today’s leading lyric tenors. He has recently sung Edgardo with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and on tour in Japan, and this summer will perform at the Bayerische Staatsoper and Salzburg Festival. Valery Gergiev recently won the Disc of the Year Award from BBC Music Magazine for his LSO Live recording of Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet. In July, Gergiev will conduct the Mariinsky Ballet at New York Metropolitan Opera and in August he conducts at the Edinburgh Festival and BBC Proms with the Mariinsky Orchestra before opening the LSO’s 2011-12 concert season. In October he embarks on a major tour of the USA and Canada with the Mariinsky Orchestra, including residencies at Carnegie Hall and Berkeley. Forthcoming releases include the final instalment in his Mahler cycle on LSO Live featuring Symphony No 9 and the Mariinsky label’s first DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs. Natalie Dessay appears courtesy of Virgin Classics.