The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center celebrates its 50th birthday. The opera house opened on September 16, 1966 with the world premier of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, based on the Shakespeare play. Fred Plotkin at WQXR has a …
Category: Ballet-General
Ballet Mentor Website Debuts
Current ABT Soloists Sarah Lane and Craig Salstein along with former dancers Eric Tamm and Luis Ribagorda have set up an innovative website designed to help young dancers navigate their way through the ballet world. Ballet Mentor is designed to answer …
Best Lincoln Center Restaurants
The New York City Ballet fall season starts this week. Sometimes a ticket for a ballet is not enough entertainment for an evening so here is a list of my favorite Lincoln Center area (or Lincoln Square) restaurants in all …
Ballet DVD, Cinema, Streaming
The Good: Bolshoi, Royal Ballet
The Bad: ABT, NYCB
I saw my dance teacher from Topeka, Kansas recently as her daughter was in New York for ABT’s teacher accreditation program. I danced in her company, Ballet Midwest, in the early 1980s and, although I did not pursue dance as a vocation, I …
Back from Vacation Mixed Rep
Back from vacation. Since I was away… ABT Announces Fall Schedule ABT announced its Fall Season casting, with performances from October 19-30 at Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. Prodigal Son casting is interesting with casts of Hee Seo/Jeffrey Cirio and …
Big Apple Circus Closing
Sad news as the Big Apple Circus announced that it will not perform this year at Lincoln Center due to a lack of funds. The 35-year-old circus started an emergency fund-raising drive recently with a goal of raising $2 million. …