Yulia Simic
A Lightness Worthy of Nureyev: Martin ten Kortenaar in Nureyev at Staatsballett Berlin
BY Yulia Simic POSTED 04/07/2026 5:09 PM
When Staatsballett Berlin brought Nureyev to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, it was much more than the arrival of a celebrated ballet outside Russia for the first time. It was a reclamation of an artist whose life and identity remain inseparable from the history of twentieth-century dance. Kirill Serebrennikov’s production, with choreography by Yuri Possokhov, avoids […] Read More
Masks Without Mystery: Netrebko Leads a Musically Strong Un ballo in maschera in Berlin
BY Yulia Simic POSTED 21/04/2026 10:41 AM
Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, set to a libretto by Antonio Somma, remains one of the composer’s most politically and dramaturgically compromised works, shaped decisively by nineteenth-century censorship. Originally conceived around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, the opera was forced into an alternative colonial American setting, yet it retains the essential […] Read More
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