Petipa News

Ballet superstar Natalia Osipova will present a new program of dazzling classic and contemporary dance pieces at the New York City Center on the 21st of January 2023, 'Natalia Osipova. Force of Nature'.

Having received its world premiere at the London Coliseum in January 2022, Raymonda by English National Ballet's Artistic Director Tamara Rojo CBE, after Marius Petipa, will be performed at the Bristol Hippodrome (23 – 26 November 2022) and Southampton's Mayflower Theatre (30 November – 03 December 2022).

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) announced its upcoming 2022-23 season of dance including several anniversary celebrations and world premieres. The fall season begins with two shows melding dance and jazz music: famed Newark-born tap artist and dancemaker Savion Glover collaborates with jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater (Nov 12)  followed by new works by New Jersey-based Carolyn Dorfman Dance featuring a live performance by renowned jazz violinist Regina Carter (Nov 16).

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) Artistic Director Susan Jaffe has signed five new dancers to the company roster for PBT's 2022-2023 Season. The season opens Oct. 7-9, with Storytelling in Motion at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center.

Tickets for Greek National Opera productions to be presented inside the Stavros Niarchos Hall and on the GNO Alternative Stage at the SNFCC from September through December 2022 go on sale this Friday, 29 July 2022 at 09.00. This programme is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the GNO’s artistic outreach.

Con el Acto II de El lago de los cisnes y Carmen, la Compañía Nacional de Danza (CND) se presentará nuevamente, después de cinco años, en la Sala Miguel Covarrubias del Centro Cultural Universitario para envolver al público en la magia, la pasión, el amor y la tragedia que emanan de estas obras, las cuales cumplen 145 y 55 años de su estreno, respectivamente. 

This is one of the most important ballets brought into being by Marius Petipa, the great French choreographer who is considered the father of classical ballet. He devised Don Quixote in 1869 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and staged its revised version two years later at the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg.

New York City Center has announced full programming for the 19th Fall for Dance Festival, September 21 – October 2, which opens a robust calendar of events for City Center’s 2022 – 2023 season.

The opening night of The Sleeping Beauty will take place in Dutch National Opera & Ballet, in Amsterdam, on 12 October. Sir Peter Wright's production of The Sleeping Beauty has been the jewel in the crown of Dutch National Ballet's repertoire for over forty years now. This season, the company will be dancing 21 performances of the glittering ballet, in the period from mid-October to the beginning of January.

The Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB) in Marblehead, Massachusetts celebrates its 50th anniversary with the 2022 Summer Dance Intensive Performance on Saturday, July 30 at 1:30 p.m. at 115 Pleasant Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts.  

This is one of the most important ballets brought into being by Marius Petipa, the great French choreographer who is considered the father of classical ballet. He devised Don Quixote in 1869 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and staged its revised version two years later at the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg.

Sarasota Opera announces an added title in its “HD at the Opera House” series with a screening of “Der Rosenkavalier” on Sunday, September 25. This historic Salzburg Festival production stars legendary soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Sarasota Opera also rescheduled a film of Verdi's Rigoletto to September 11 (from May) with tickets for these “HD at the Opera House” films on sale for $22, and $20 for Sarasota Opera subscribers.  

Celebrating the conclusion of its first post-pandemic performance season, Olympic Ballet Theatre (OBT) announces an exciting line-up of four productions in the upcoming season.

The Greek National Opera’s 2022-23 season curated by GNO Artistic Director Giorgos Koumendakis will feature ten new opera and ballet productions, one newly commissioned opera, five revivals of past productions, music concerts, major co-productions with some of the world’s foremost opera houses, collaborations with leading conductors and more.

Invited by Gustavo Dudamel to participate in the 100th anniversary season of the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Paris Opera Ballet, directed by Aurélie Dupont, will perform for the first time in this amphitheater on July 21 and 22, 2022. On the immense open-air stage and accompanied by the LA Phil under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris, the Company will present an anthology of its repertoire before more than 17,000 spectators each evening.

To designate something as a “classic,” like a diamond, is to guarantee its significance forever. The Pacific Northwest Ballet is by this definition, wholly classic, @lorastrum writes.

The Australian Ballet has announced that their global live stream series will continue with Alexei Ratmansky's Harlequinade, available for audiences all over the world to enjoy on Friday, June 24.

Casting for the final three weeks of American Ballet Theatre’s 2022 Summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House has been announced. 

It’s been nearly two years since the National Ballet of Canada had planned on premiering their new SWAN LAKE, but in this case late is definitely better than never. The stunning new production, directed by former Artistic Director Karen Kain, has finally arrived on the Four Seasons Centre’s stage.  

The Kyiv City Ballet, under the artistic direction of Ivan Kozlov, announced today a U.S tour this fall as a US premiere which marks the Kyiv City Ballet’s first United States performances ever. See thee schedule here.