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Jewel in the Kirov crown

She is only asoloist but Oleysa Novikova of the Kirov Ballet has already snatched the roles of an Emerald and a Ruby in George Balanchine's box-office ballet gem, Jewels.Read

Review: En Sus 13 at Birmingham Town Hall

En Sus 13 is a series of nine flamenco dances from award-winning dancer/choreographer trio Olga Pericet, Manuel Lion and Marco Flores, and their company.Read

Win opening night tickets to the Kirov Ballet in Birmingham

Russia's world famous Kirov Ballet is coming to Birmingham Hippodrome - and birminghampost.net has a pair of tickets to the opening night up for grabs.Read

Review: Ballet Ratakan at Birmingham Hippodrome

Much more than just another feel-good show packed with perfect-bodied dancers, infectious music and slick costume changes, Ballet Rakatan's contribution to Birmingham's new dance festival, Havana Rakatan, proved to be a slice of life Havana-style spanning 500 years of folklore, social history and music and dance.Read

Review: Ukrainian National Opera of Odessa at Alexandra Theatre

These performances of two popular operas, Madama Butterfly and La Traviata, used the same basic ingredients, up-and-coming young singers and productions which were eye-catching, sometimes to the point of distraction, but with very different musical results.Read

International Dance Festival just right for Birmingham

DanceXchange director David Massingham tells Terry Grimley why Birmingham's new International Dance Festival is the perfect brand for the cityRead

Review: English Touring Opera's Don Giovanni, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton

English Touring Opera's latest version of Don Giovanni, by Jonathan Munby, is Mozart without mercy - and as radical as the first production in 1985.Read

Review: Royal Ballet Sinfonia at Symphony Hall

When you've found a successful formula, stick to it. It certainly works for Birmingham Royal Ballet, whose annual outing to Symphony Hall on Friday again pulled in a huge audience.Read

Kirov Ballet heads for Birmingham

Susan Turner joins the performers of the Kirov Ballet in St Petersburg as they prepare to visit Birmingham Read

Nederlands Dans Theater 1, Birmingham Hippodrome

Jiri Kylian's work made up two thirds of Nederlands Dance Theater 1's programme on its first visit to Birmingham Hippodrome - and demonstrated how to both win-over and lose an audience in a night.Read

Birmingham Opera Company in frame for national award

Earlier this year it was fighting for its life when the Arts Council axed its grant - now Birmingham Opera Company has been shortlisted for a national award.Read

Review: Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! at the Birmingham Hippodrome

It takes a certain nerve to bring a version of The Nutcracker to the Hippodrome, where Sir Peter Wright's classic 1990 production is more or less the house show.Read

Review: Eugene Onegin by WNO at the Hippodrome

Of the three Welsh National Opera productions of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin I have seen, the middle one was a turkey which was still-born as soon as it emerged from its grotesque shell. Read

Review: Magic flute by WNO at the Hippodrome

Welsh National Opera's 2005 version of The Magic Flute may not be to everyone's taste, but it's an intriguing production nevertheless. Read

Review: L'Incoronazione di Poppea, at The Crescent Theatre

Though it is historically important, Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea is by no means the great opera the textbooks have always had us believe. Read

Moving to be at the hub of international dance

Terry Grimley meets Birmingham Royal Ballet's new star couple.Read

Armonico's brave step into opera

Michael McCaffrey has directed numerous productions of The Marriage of Figaro, but his latest is the first on which he has worked with a choir rather than an opera company. Read

Birmingham opera boss blasts funding cut

Graham Vick, founder and artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company, is furious at the Arts Council's plans to stop funding the company.Read

Birmingham Opera Company facing closure

Birmingham Opera Company, which presented a co-production of La Traviata to almost 10,000 people at the National Indoor Arena in October, could face closure after losing its Arts Council grant.Read

Nutcracker still the best

Birmingham Royal Ballet's version of The Nutcracker is the most magical interpretation of the Tchaikovsky favouriteRead

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