On October 17, 2019 Alicia Alonso, the great Cuban prima ballerina and choreographer whose life and dance has left a significant impact on different generations of ballet artists, died at the age of 98. Yolanda Correa, prima baller...
Four dancers of the Staatsballett Berlin - Marina Kanno, Aeri Kim, Gregor Glocke and Ksenia Ovsyanick - were asked our 5 questions about ballet. Here are their answers.
Marina Kanno, demi-soloist of the Staatsballett Berlin
Her Instagram page is a collection of flossy photographs spiced up with witty captions that reveal her intelligence and sincerity. She seems to have a really intriguing personality. 22-year-old Sayaka Wakita of the Theater Dortmund...
18-year-old Yuria Isaka, a graduate of the Princess Grace Academy, joined the Staatsballett Berlin this season. Being the company’s youngest member, on November 25 she debuted on stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin with the first ser...
Cuban-born prima ballerina of the Staatsballet Berlin debuted on stage of the Deutsche Oper this season as Odette-Odile in Patrice Bart's production of "Swan Lake" shared her opinion on this iconic ballet in an interview for our ma...
Roberto Bolle aka 'The Immortal God' of our time was made to dance Apollo. There is nothing human in his nature: covered by divine golden pollen, he radiates eternal light of his inborn giftedness. However, Roberto says, "Antique c...
Having exquisite body lines, beautiful arched feet and long limbs, Georgeta Varvarici, a Moldavian born ballet dancer, also gifted with hyperextension and extraordinary turnout, seems to be born to do ballet. In our interview she t...
The former dancer of the Staatsballet Berlin, Patricia Zhou, tells us about her life in Los Angeles, the features of Russian ballet, her YouTube vlog and the difficulties every artist has to overcome on their road to success.
Born in Japan and graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy, today Marina Kanno is a demi-soloist of the Staatsballett Berlin. We had a talk with Marina on her studies in Russia, favourite ballets and choreographers, daily routine...
This double bill evening by the Staatsballett Berlin is an attempt to reveal the so-called French ballet tradition through the works of two contemporary French choreographers – Jean-Christophe Maillot’s "Altro Canto" and Benjamin M...
"The Art of Not Looking Back" created by Hofesh Shechter, an Israeli choreographer based in London, can be considered as a deep and thorough psychological research of human’s capacity to forget and forgive expressed in the language...
Voci dell’Opera got a chance to have a talk with Jacopo Tissi, a former La Scala ballet dancer, who has recently joined the Bolshoi Ballet Company. Jacopo told us about his passion, dreams, partnership with Svetlana Zakharova and o...
Eleonora Sevenard, Vaganova Ballet Academy student and a descendant of the great ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, has recently given an interview to Voci dell’Opera.
Eleonora, did you want to be a ballerina as a child, or was it your...
