The Dante Project review — Thomas Adès’s score is the triumph of Royal Ballet premiere

The Dante Project review — Thomas Adès’s score is the triumph of Royal Ballet premiere

★★★★☆Nicely timed to mark the 700th anniversary of the death of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, The Dante Project brings together three of the highest-profile

The Dante Project review – Wayne McGregor moves heaven, earth and hell

Royal Opera House, LondonThe Divine Comedy is brilliantly reimagined by McGregor with music by Thomas Adès, sets by Tacita Dean and a poetic send-off for Edward WatsonFor his new ballet, Wayne McGregor has enlisted some big hitters. Dante Alighieri for one, Italy’s greatest poet, author of The Divine Comedy, which McGregor reimagines here, but living artists, too: composer Thomas Adès, writing his first score for dance, and artist Tacita Dean, c…

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Wayne McGregor’s new ballet illuminating the extraordinary vision of Dante has opened on the Main Stage.

BWW Review: THE DANTE PROJECT, Royal Opera House

Dante Alighieri is frequently said to be the Italian William Shakspeare, and he certainly is in many aspects. Often pictured from his side - with prominent nose, laurel crown, and red tunic becoming the stars of his portraits - he somewhat invented the Italian language before modern Italy was even conceived as an ideal. The English wouldn’t meet their Bard for a further two centuries.