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From the Press: "Fantasy, folly and fancy footwork: cosmic dance comes to Manchester" by The Guardian
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Invisible Cities part of Manchester international festival. © Tristram Kenton i
"Performed in a cavernous former railway depot, Invisible Cities features actors, dancers, digital animations and amazing stage designs.In adapting Italo Calvino’s novel of the same name, it aims for sweeping themes such as imagination, power, belonging, morality and mortality. “The question of whether this was one of my best ideas or an act of pure folly remains open,” writes director Leo Warner in the programme. My answer is that it’s both."
To read The Guardian's full review, click here.
Invisible Cities is the winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2019.
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Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Work Featured at the Paris National Opera’s Ballet Season Opening Gala
23 September 2025
Paris / France
The Opéra national de Paris opens its new dance season with its traditional gala at the Palais Garnier on 27 September, beginning with the celebrated Défilé du Ballet. This year, the evening features the repertoire debut of Requiem for a Rose by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa.
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New creations by our former FEDORA Prizes winners at the Opera Forward Festival
24 February 2025
Amsterdam / Netherlands
The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) will take place from 14 to 31 March at the Dutch Nationale Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam and will feature three of our former FEDORA Prizes winners.
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Graham Vick CBE, Artistic Director of Birmingham Opera Company received Knighthood in New Year honours.In 1987 he founded the Birmingham Opera Company (of which he remains Artistic Director), recognised as one of the most pioneering companies for the development of opera as a 21st century art form...
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