by MerciSF | 20-01-2025 | Agenda, Dance, News, See All BalletDanceParis OperaPerformance
San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) will launch its 24/25 season with the highly anticipated SF premiere of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon. This masterful ballet, running from January 24 to February 1, 2025, at the War Memorial Opera House, offers an enchanting... 
by MerciSF | 13-03-2024 | Agenda, Dance, See All BalletDanceParis OperaPerformance
San Francisco Ballet’s Midsummer Nights Dream features costumes designed by Christian Lacroix When fashion meets the world of ballet, magic is bound to happen. Christian Lacroix, the celebrated French designer renowned for his extravagant designs for his fashion... 
by Isabella | 14-12-2022 | Uncategorized BalletFrench ArtistsParis OperaTeaching
San Francisco Ballet passes the baton: Tamara Rojo (English National Ballet) will start the 2022-23 season as Artistic Director, following Helgi Tómasson. If the world-famous company is well known, here we wanted to focus on its nursery, the San Francisco Ballet... 
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music, See All OperaParis OperaStreaming
Could there be a greater homage to the inventor of magic realism in literature than to make him the principal character of an opera in which all resemblance to reality is abolished in favour of an imaginary world with its own rules? In this work by Offenbach,... 
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music OperaParis Opera
In creating this ebullient opera buffa, Rossini captured all the fiery spirit of the comedy by Beaumarchais that inspired it. A native of Venice, birthplace of commedia dell’arte, Damiano Michieletto is highly sensitive to the burlesque vein in Rossini’s music. He...
