Even those who don’t like Rudolf Nureyev as a choreographer (and this writer is among them), cannot fail to appreciate...
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Valentina Bonelli is a dance journalist and critic based in Milan, and a longtime contributor to Vogue Italia and Amadeus. She is a correspondent from Italy for international dance magazines such as Dance Europe and Dance Magazine Japan. As a scholar her main interest lies in the XIX century Russian ballet, in its connections with the Italian ballet school. She has translated and edited Marius Petipa’s Memoires (2010) and Diaries (2018) into Italian, and she is currently writing essays and biographies about La Scala ballerinas dancing at Russian Imperial theatres.
At La Scala the 2021/2022 season closed with a very beloved ballet, “Onegin,” a mainstay of the Milanese repertory for...
Since Eleonora Abbagnato has been Ballet director at Opera in Rome, glamour as well has entered the theatre. A popular...
In very hot Italian summer, travelling between Verona and Venice could reveal the tastes and manias of “the beautiful country”...
The first edition of the “Gala Fracci,” an initiative of ballet director Manuel Legris, took place at La Scala as...
Last seen at La Scala in 2014, George Balanchine’s “Jewels” returned on stage this season, coincidentally like many other companies...
