National Ballet of Canada just commenced Italian choreographer Davide Bombana’s Carmen at the Four Seasons Centre, billing it a tale of lust, betrayal and murder and based on French writer Prosper Merimée’s scandalous 1845 novella Carmen. The ballet’s Opening Night starred Heather Ogden as the promiscuous title character and her real-life husband Guillaume Côté debuting […]
The crème de le crème of Toronto high society gathered recently for the National Ballet of Canada’s 60th anniversary Diamond Gala at the Four Seasons Centre, a night of dining and dancing that raised$1.25-million. Lloyd Robertson and Principal Dancer Greta Hodgkinson Outside the centre, mannequin style models wearing specially designed tutus posed in the blistering […]
Artistic Director Karen Kain is truly taking the National Ballet of Canada to new heights. Tonight’s triple bill of three very distinct pieces was an ingenious way to end the company’s 60th anniversary season. Artists of the Ballet in Elite Syncopations Photograph by Cylla von Tiedemann After the morose dancing of Hamlet, these vibrant vignettes […]
American Kevin O’Day (now artistic director of Ballett Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany) choreographed the ballet Hamlet based on Shakepeare’s play for the Stuttgart Ballet in 2008 shortly after the death of his father. He states at the pre-Ballet Talk Opening Night of the The National Ballet of Canada production, “It’s addressing the father that’s within us […]
