Ballet
WATCH: Stephen Fry/Alan Davies at Royal Opera House's Deloitte Ignite Verdi/Wagner Festival
REVIEW: Singers and Dancers Make Verdi's 'Sicilian Vespers' a Grand Debut at Royal Opera House
It took 158 years to get here, but Les Vêpres Siciliennes, one of the grandest of Verdi's operas, made its Royal Opera debut in London with a production that proved an ideal platform for soloists, ballerinas and choruses. Bolshoi Dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko Denies Guilt in Acid Attack on Director Sergei Filin, Blames Thug Yuri Zarutsky
Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to ordering an acid attack that nearly blinded Sergei Filin, the troupe's artistic director. Yuri Zarutsky, a jobless ex-convict accused of carrying out Dmitrichenko's plot, told the court that he had acted alone.
