Meeting with representatives and stars of the dance company touring Australia in 2018
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to host an evening dedicated to the presentation of the upcoming Australian tour of legendary La Scala Ballet Company of Milan, who will perform Don Quixote (choreographies by Rudold Nureyev) and Giselle (choreographies by Coralli-Perrot) at the QPAC’s Lyric Theatre in November 2018.
Guest of the evening will be the General Manager of La Scala Theatre, Maria Di Freda, principal dancers Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, Ballet Director Frédéric Olivieri and representative of QPAC.
La Scala is among the most recognisable cultural brands in the world. It is an abbreviation of the official Teatro alla Scala, the opera house founded in Milan in 1778. Like all of the world’s great opera houses, it also operates a ballet company under the same management. La Scala is home to the La Scala Theatre Chorus, La Scala Theatre Ballet and La Scala Theatre Orchestra. In addition, it has an associate school which trains across art form and technical management. In recent years the company has expanded its touring internationally to include Paris Opera, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre; St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, as well as to the USA, China, Spain and Brazil.
Tours of the production of Giselle have been acclaimed in many countries including Oman (2011), Brazil (2012), Hong Kong (2014, inside the Hong Kong Arts Festival, where it was awarded the Best Performance of the Year), in Paris (2015), China (Tianjin, Shanghai and Canton, in 2016) and United States (2017).
Giselle is an iconic, romantic work that continues to draw audiences with its contrast between a sunny world and a dark and terrible kingdom inhabited by spirits. Curatorially and technically, it sits well alongside Don Quixote, one of Rudolph Nureyev’s most successful choreographic works which explores themes of delusion and imagination.
The entire company of 119 including 75 dancers featuring the company’s superstars Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle who will be joined by two superstar guest couples from the ballet world.
Entry by invitation only.