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The National Theatre Brno (Czech: Národní divadlo Brno) is an opera, ballet and drama company in the Czech Republic, that nation's second busiest. It was established in 1884 on the model of the National Theatre company in Prague. Today it runs the biennial Janáček Festival, in November, and has three venues:
Wayne and Monica audition the dancers for the parts in Swan Lake and the pressure is on to see who is cast as the lead White Swan and her evil counterpart the Black Swan. Having whittled down hundreds of auditionees to form their unique ballet company, Wayne and Monica – and the dancers – realise the size of the task ahead of them.
It was formerly named the Vienna State Opera Ballet as it is based at the Vienna State Opera building. In 2005 the ballets of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Volksoper were merged under the name Das Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper und Volksoper and Gyula Harangozo became the artistic director.
Peeping Tom's style includes elements of dance, theatre, opera, and performance. Their works start from a hyperrealist aesthetic in a concrete set, like a garden (Le Jardin, 2002), a living room (Le Salon, 2004), two trailer homes in a snow-covered landscape (32 Rue Vandenbranden, 2009), a retirement home (Vader, 2014) or a forest (Kind, 2019).
The National Ballet of Ukraine company began to tour internationally by the 1950s, primarily in Communist Bloc countries such as Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Hungary, but also to Britain and France. The National Ballet of Ukraine was awarded the Étoile d'Or the French Dance Academy's highest prize, at the 1964 International Dance Festival in Paris.
The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm , Sweden , King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this field; he also founded the Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Dramatic Theatre .
Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan head to Nashville, L.A., Santa Barbara, Tuskegee, and Leesburg, Va., to audition the talent for ‘American Idol’ Season 7 on ABC.
Many leading European professional ballet companies that survive today were established at new theatres in Europe's capital cities during the mid- to late- 19th century, including the Kyiv Ballet, the Hungarian National Ballet, the National Theatre Ballet (Prague) and the Vienna State Ballet (formerly the Vienna State Opera Ballet). These ...