Lighting Designer

Once again this year the young Ballet School students become acquainted with the great masters of the classical, modern and contemporary repertoires. To these aspiring young artists, dancing at the Teatro alla Scala means something more than simply putting their technical and interpretive skills to the test: it means having an educational and professional experience of the highest level on a much dreamed-of stage.

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La Scala Academy's Ballet School Show

Teatro alla Scala

Caravaggio

Carlo Felice Theater

As the last premiere in his role as artistic director of the Dortmund Ballet, Xin Peng Wang presents the three-part ballet evening Dips . In addition to the world premiere of Drama Class by the young, internationally sought-after Israeli choreographer Nadav Zelner, the award-winning work Blushing by Marco Goecke will be shown.

Dips

Opernhaus Dortmund

Hollywood in the 1920s. A new, exotic and opulent film is being produced in the dream factory. The subject: La Bayadère - the story of the beautiful temple dancer, which was celebrated at its premiere in St. Petersburg in 1877, is to find its way onto the cinema screens of the world. Everyone is working with great enthusiasm to ensure the success of the project, which is believed to be certain. The aim is to help the tragically beautiful story, set in ancient India, achieve international brilliance in the cinemas of the 1920s.

La Bayadère

The story of Odette, who is transformed into a swan and who must be rescued by Prince Siegfried from the clutches of the magician Redbeard, has everything it needs to be a hit: a magical setting, a love story that overcomes all boundaries, deception and betrayal, and a dramatic or - depending on your taste - open ending. Based on the emotionally expressive and haunting music of Peter Tchaikovsky, the choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895) has become the epitome of classical ballet.

Swan Lake

The ballet treats Franz Kafka’s feted novel, revealing the absurdity and cruelty of the bureaucratic apparatus the protagonist grapples with to no avail. Bigonzetti masterfully combines dance, music and imaginative scenery, created by Carlo Cerri. Owing to its black-and-white visual concept and video projections, the production evokes the film noir aesthetics, thus paying tribute to Orson Welles’s seminal cinematic adaptation.

Kafka: The Trial

The Estates Theatre

The renowned Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti created Scheherazade for the Czech National Ballet, in tandem with Carlo Cerri, his long-term collaborator. Based on the famous Middle Eastern story, the full-length ballet features a mesmerising, diverse dance idiom, and overwhelming visual dimensions. Mauro Bigonzetti, long-standing artistic director of the Aterballetto, Reggio Emilia, is a great modern dance innovator, one of the world’s most feted ballet creators and a sensitive storyteller. Blending contemporary and classical elements, he reveals and depicts the beauty of the human body almost like a sculptor, yet his works are far from academic. Bigonzetti has previously worked with the Czech National Ballet on three occasions. In 2016, Prague staged to great acclaim his Vertigo; in 2019, the Estates Theatre hosted the world premiere of Kafka: The Trial; and in the 2023/24 season, the State Opera presented his choreography to Franz Schubert’s Death and the Maiden within the unique project Holo Harmonies.

Lighting Designer

Carlo Cerri

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 30 - Oct 7, 2026

Kafka: The Trial · Národní divadlo

Apr 17, 2027

Scheherazade · Národní divadlo

Past events

Apr 2, 2026

La Scala Academy's Ballet School Show · Teatro alla Scala

4 - 7 Dec, 2025

Caravaggio · Opera Carlo Felice Genova

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