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14 Aug 2018	The 15th World Ballet Festival Sasaki GALA Program Updates Please see below for updates in the casting and the program of Sasaki GALA. - Myriam Ould-Braham has regretfully withdrawn from Sasaki Gala due to injury. Consequently, Mathias Haymann's partner in Grand Pas Classique will be Dorothée Gilbert. - Due to Cesar C...
27 Jul 2018	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Changes Due to injury, it has become necessary to make some changes to Program A and B. We have just learned that Marijn Rademaker has regretfully withdrawn from the Festival due to injury. Consequently, Maria Eichwald's partner will instead be Alexandre Riabko to dance in Program A and ...
20 Jul 2018	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Updates and Additional Artist We are pleased to announce that Daniel Proietto from The Norwegian National Ballet will join the festival to perform with Aurélie Dupont a ballet by Alan Lucien Øyen in Program A. At Sasaki GALA, there will be three special performances dedicated to the late Tadatsugu Sasaki, fou...
17 Jul 2018	Cast Change: Don Quixote on 28 July 2018【The 15th World Ballet Festival】 Cesar Corrales has regretfully withdrawn from his performance as Basilio in Don Quixote at the World ballet Festival on 28 July 2018, due to injury. After discussion with Alina Cojocaru who will dance as Kitri, Leonid Sarafanov will dance as Basilio. * Changes in the cast or the program do not enti...
21 Jun 2018	The 15th World Ballet Festival Program Announcement of Closing Gala〈Sasaki Gala〉 Sasaki Gala　15 August 2018, 17:00 　 Artists Maria Alexandrova Vladislav Lantratov Laurencia Vakhtang Chabukiani Alicia Amatriain Friedemann Vogel TBA Silvia Azzoni Alexandre Riabko Edvin Revazov Seven Haiku of the Moon - Pas de trois John Neumeier Elisa Badenes TBA Léonore Baulac Germain Louvet Del...
7 Jun 2018	The 15th World Ballet Festival Closing Gala〈Sasaki Gala〉 The 15th World Ballet Festival will be closed with a gala on Wednesday 15 August 2018. This year, it has been named〈Sasaki Gala〉 in memory of the late Tadatsugu Sasaki, founder of the festival, being the first gala since his passing in 2016. The program will be announced in June 2018. Tickets will b...
4 Jun 2018	Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Japan Tour 2019 Maestro Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra return to Japan for the first time since 2016. Maestro Muti will lead the orchestra in three different programs. The tour begins on Wednesday 30 January 2019 in Tokyo. Don't miss it! Wed. 30 January 2019, 19:00, Tokyo ＜Program A＞ Brahms Symph...
31 May 2018	Cast Change: Ambrogio Maestri to sing in La traviata【Teatro dell'Opera di Roma】 Baritone Leo Nucci has regretfully withdrawn from his four scheduled performances as Giorgio Germont in the upcoming Teatro dell'Opera di Roma's production of La traviata in Tokyo on 9, 12, 15 and 17 September 2018. He had been looking forward to singing for the Japanese fans, but has decided to cur...
28 May 2018	The Stuttgart Ballet 2018 Japan Tour The Stuttgart Ballet 2018 Japan Tour begins Friday 2 November 2018 in Tokyo. This time, the company will bring two of the signature works by John Cranko, Onegin and Swan Lake. Onegin Ballet by John Cranko in three acts based on Alexander Pushkin's verse novel, set to musi...
24 May 2018	Artistic Director David Bintley joins Pre-Performance Talk of La Fille mal gardée on 26 May 2018【Birmingham Royal Ballet】 Artistic Director David Bintley will be another speaker to join Kosuke Yamamoto for the Pre-Performance Talk on 26 May 2018. The role of Widow Simone in La Fille mal gardée used to be one of Mr. Bintley's most successful roles as a dancer. It will be the last and precious oppo...