Worst birthday ever makes for one of the best shows of 2019. Growing up in Singapore, the hard and fast path to ‘success’ has always been made abundantly clear to each and every child: study hard, get into a good school, rinse and repeat, and you’ll lead a happy life. But for those who don’t follow exactly as the system dictates, the consequences could be … Continue reading Review: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre
Near the start of 2019, local theatre company Nine Years Theatre (NYT) announced their new season, starting with FAUST/US in February, original play First Fleet in July, before rounding off with a restaging of SIFA 2017’s Art Studio in October. But midway through, due to unforeseen circumstances, Art Studio was unable to proceed as planned, and the team had to find an alternative production to round off their year. Enter Dear Elena … Continue reading Nine Years Theatre’s Dear Elena: An Interview with Nelson Chia, Mia Chee and Timothy Wan
Nine Years Theatre returns this October for their third and final production of the year. Following the premiere of brand new play First Fleet in July, the company returns to their roots with Dear Elena, with artistic director Nelson Chia adapting a Russian play into Mandarin. Originally written by Russian playwright Lyudmila Razumovskaya, Dear Elena Sergeevna, the original play, was first staged at the beginning of … Continue reading Preview: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre
First established in 2012, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia already started off as a massive project, with 90 young musicians aged 10 to 22 years old from 40 Russian cities, sourced from a competition between classical music performers. Since then, the orchestra has produced countless professional musicians both renewing and preserving the cultural music of Russia, and has gone on to play at huge events, being the only … Continue reading Preview: From Russia With Love by Yuri Bashmet and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia (NUS Arts Festival 2018)
The Russians know best how to present a timeless classic. There are few ballets that have as much staying power, infinite mystery and enchantment as Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and it stands to reason that there must have been something magical in its original staging that’s captured the hearts of so many fans ever since it first opened in Russia in 1877. So it is that the St Petersburg … Continue reading Review: The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake (co-presented by Sliding Doors Entertainment and Theatre Tours International)
The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre is no stranger to Singapore, with sold out, well-received runs when they came in 2015 and 2016. In May this year, they’re returning for the third time to perform Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at Mediacorp’s MES Theatre, and featuring not only their prima ballerina Irina Kolesnikova in the starring role of Odile/Odette, but also an entire company of 60, including a number of … Continue reading St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake: An Interview with Prima Ballerina Irina Kolesnikova and Founding Director Konstantin Tachkin
We may already have had one fantastic run of Swan Lake this year, but fans of the show won’t need to wait too long before another one comes along, this time by Russia’s St Petersburg Ballet Theatre. Playing at the MES Theatre this May following sold out seasons in London and Paris, the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre is coming to Singapore for a strictly limited … Continue reading Preview: The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake
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