“At a time when [Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet] was floundering in London…, Birmingham City Council made an offer the company couldn’t refuse.” Now “the 58 dancers enjoy the kind of fabulous facilities their predecessors could only dream about at their old home in London,” and their work is “a magnet for dance in Britain’s second city.”
Tag: 02.23.10
Metropolitan Opera Hikes Its Ticket Prices
“The cost of an average individual ticket will rise by 11 percent, while subscriber tickets will go up an average of 6 percent. The Met said it had not made ‘across the board’ increases in four years,” and general manager Peter Gelb “said that while administrative cost cuts remained in effect, ‘We are not skimping on our presentations’ for the coming season.”
Placido Domingo To Have Surgery After Abdominal Pain
“He is hoping to miss no more than six weeks of performances, returning for a late-March run in the title role of ‘Simon Boccanegra’ at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, said the spokeswoman, Nancy Seltzer. … Mr. Domingo, 69, suffered ‘intense pain and discomfort’ while singing and conducting in Tokyo [last week], Ms. Seltzer said. “
Christopher Wheeldon Quits Morphoses
“In an interview Sunday evening Mr. Wheeldon said there was not enough of a cadre of full-time dancers to work with. … The company’s executive director, Lourdes Lopez, a former principal dancer at New York City Ballet who danced for George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, said on Monday that Mr. Wheeldon did not give enough time to his company.”