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Royal Ballet triple bill, Royal Opera House, London

There is an interesting backstory to Rushes, the first major work by Danish choreographer Kim Brandstrup for the Royal Ballet. The music comes from an uncompleted score by Prokofiev for a film that was never made; its literary inspiration is Dostoevsky's preliminary notes for his novel The Idiot. Aptly for such unfinished sources, Brandstrup's idea was to make a ballet of fragmentary scenes.

Dance: Royal Ballet Triple Bill, Royal Opera House, London WC2

Kim Brandstrup's new work for the Royal Ballet, Rushes - Fragments of a Lost Story, was born of the discovery of an incomplete film score by Prokofiev. Originally, this was to have accompanied a 1930s cinema version of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades, but the project fell foul of the Soviet authorities. Learning of the score, Brandstrup decided to use it for a ballet version of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. This would not be based on the finished novel, but on early drafts and an abandoned scenario.

Royal Ballet Double Bill, Royal Opera House, London

More than three decades have passed since the Royal last performed Jerome Robbins' Dances at a Gathering, and to launch this revival the company have deployed luxury casting. It is hard to complain about a work that includes Alina Cojocaru, Tamara Rojo and Sarah Lamb, that showcases Lauren Cuthbertson on her most animated form to date and reveals the buoyant technique of 19-year-old Sergei Polunin in one of his first principal roles.

Festival Ballet, Royal Opera House, London

Ballet is falling prey to recession, too. This year, English National Ballet have managed to squeeze only one mixed bill among the Nutcrackers and Sleeping Beauties that are its box-office bread and butter, and a wistful programme note from director Wayne Eagling points out that the funding for this triple bill had only been raised thanks to a special syndicate of sponsors.

Romeo and Juliet, Royal Opera House, London

For big productions, ballet companies almost always put on multiple casts. Kenneth MacMillan's Juliet is one of the most coveted roles in the Royal Ballet's repertoire, and one that has always had room for a range of interpretations. This summer's Juliets include debut performances from Marianela Nuñez and Sarah Lamb, two of this company's strongest young principals.

Selecon at the Oslo Opera House

Norway - The new home of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, the Oslo Opera House took five years to build at an estimated cost of 500 million Euros and the result is a spectacular edifice of Italian white marble with a slanting roof surface that rises directly from beneath the waters of the Oslofjord (Oslo Fjord) in the capital's harbour. Officially opened on Saturday, 12 April 2008 by the Norwegian King Harald during a gala event the Oslo Opera House is the largest single cultural-political initiative in Norway today (38,500sq.m) and the first Opera House in the world where visitors can take a walk on roof.

Opera Dragonfly on the prowl

Much to the dismay of bugs lurking within pages of the World Wide Web, Opera Software today unmercifully unleashed the anticipated Opera Dragonfly. True to Opera’s embodiment of One Web, the developer tools with Opera Dragonfly will debug Web pages, Widgets and Web applications on any device. Opera Dragonfly is firstly available in Opera 9.5 beta 2. Today’s alpha release will upgrade automatically and includes a JavaScript Debugger, DOM and CSS Inspectors, Error Console and Command Line. To test Opera Dragonfly, download Opera 9.5 beta 2 from www.opera.com/download, launch the browser and go to Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools.

Opera Releases Predator

OSLO, Norway -- Much to the dismay of bugs lurking within pages of the World Wide Web, Opera Software today unmercifully unleashed the anticipated Opera Dragonfly. True to Opera's embodiment of One Web, the developer tools with Opera Dragonfly will debug Web pages, Widgets and Web applications on any device. Opera Dragonfly is firstly available in Opera 9.5 beta 2. Today's alpha release will upgrade automatically and includes a JavaScript Debugger, DOM and CSS Inspectors, Error Console and Command Line. To test Opera Dragonfly, download Opera 9.5 beta 2 from http://www.opera.com/download, launch the browser and go to Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools.

Dance review: Romeo and Juliet / Royal Opera House, London

We know that Marianela Nuñez and Thiago Soares have chemistry, given the roles on which they have already stamped their partnership: their sparky duelling of wits in Coppelia, their entranced reading of the Diamonds section in Balanchine's Jewels last year. But Romeo and Juliet calls for more than a sympathetic current between dancers; it requires an ability to plumb turmoil and despair, as well as extraordinary technique. And, though a crowded opera house gave Nuñez and Soares a deservedly rapt response after their debut in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's ballet, their joint performance is one that needs time to mature.

From the book to the movie to the Oscars to the opera to the

New York City Opera has commissioned American composer Charles Wuorinen to write an opera based on Brokeback Mountain, a love story about two U. S. ranch-hands that won three Oscars when it was turned into a movie. The opera house's spokesman Gerard Mortier said in a statement on Sunday that Wuorinen had accepted an invitation to compose an opera based on Annie Proulx's short story. It is slated to premiere during City Opera's 2013 spring season. "Ever since encountering Annie Proulx's extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so," Wuorinen, 70, said in a statement. Brokeback Mountain is the story of two men who meet and fall in love on the fictional Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming in 1963 with their complex relationship

Reviewers praise Royal Opera's production of 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

LONDON - Reviewers have abundant praise for the Royal Opera's "Ariadne auf Naxos." They love the sets, the orchestration and the production. But the newly slimmed-down soprano Deborah Voigt's voice received mixed reviews.

Royal Ballet's "Manon" to make Chinese debut

A scene from the Royal Ballet's "Manon," to be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing June 18-20. (Photo courtesy of National Center for the Performing Arts)

Royal Ballet's "Manon" to make Chinese debut

A scene from the Royal Ballet's "Manon," to be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing June 18-20. (Photo courtesy of National Center for the Performing Arts)

Houston Grand Opera's Anthony Freud Elected Chairman Of Opera America

Anthony Freud, OBE, general director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera, has been elected chairman of the Board of Directors of Opera America, the national service organization for opera. The election took place at the annual Opera America conference 2008 in Denver on June 11th. Freud will serve an initial term of two years and succeeds Charles MacKay, general director of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Reviewers praise Royal Opera's `Ariadne auf Naxos'

Reviewers loved the Royal Opera's production of "Ariadne auf Naxos," which opened Monday. But soprano Deborah Voigt - who was famously dropped from the 2004 revival for being too heavy to fit into her costume - got a mixed reception.

Review: Simon Boccanegra, Royal Opera House, London

Classical: St John Passion / LSO and Chorus | The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment | The Merry Widow

Luke Jennings reviews the Royal Ballet's Dances at a Gathering/The Dream

Jerome Robbins's Dances at a Gathering (1969) is a plotless work set to piano pieces by Chopin. Tender, dreamy and shot through with a sense of long-ago love affairs, the piece acquires a different dynamic with every cast. When the Royal Ballet danced it in the 1970s, it became a signature piece, a group portrait of an unforgettable constellation of stars. When the company performs Robbins's piece today, the layers of allusion are dense. But in a good way: the new cast has new things to tell us and is not about to be crowded off the stage by ghosts.

Aboard Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic Crossings, Plays and Workshops by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Set the Stage for Enriching Voyages

2's Transatlantic season underway, the accomplished actors and directors of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) are engaged in a full programme of performances and workshops designed to engage and entertain the ship's guests. Highlights of this season's RADA programming schedule include abridged versions of Shakespeare's Richard III and Romeo & Juliet,

Aboard Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic Crossings, Plays and Workshops by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Set the Stage for Enriching Voyages

Aboard Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic Crossings, Plays and Workshops by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Set the Stage for Enriching Voyages

Aboard Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic Crossings, Plays and Workshops by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Set the Stage for Enriching Voyages

Aboard Queen Mary 2's Transatlantic Crossings, Plays and Workshops by London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Set the Stage for Enriching Voyages

Royal Ascot racing carnival officials order women to dress more elegantly

Fearful of slipping standards, officials at Ascot, whose five-day racing carnival begins Tuesday, have told patrons to dress in a more elegant fashion. Women wearing skimpy dresses, strapless tops and short skirts will be barred from the Royal Enclosure at the upmarket Royal Ascot racing carnival this year under the new "specific requirements" of the dress code.

House Passes Revised FISA Bill - Telecoms granted immunity for warrantless wiretapping

The revised FISA bill that was under review today was passed through the House without any problems. The revised bill made some changes to the issue of whether or not to give immunity to telecoms that participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping in the past but ultimately it does allow for that immunity to be granted. They simply need to prove that they received instructions from the president which ordered them to assist in the eavesdropping. The Senate is likely to pass the revised bill through without any questions sometime before 4th of July.

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