Clau­dio Cov­i­ello spreads his wings in Swan Lake with Natalia Osipova

In a brave casting move, Makhar Vaziev, director of La Scala’s ballet company, has given new-boy Clau­dio Cov­i­ello the opening night of Swan Lake with Natalia Osipova.

21-year-old Clau­dio Cov­i­ello, who stepped in at the last minute to replace Ivan Vasiliev in March, and was named primo ballerino (prin­cipal) just two months ago, will be dancing three performances with the Russian superstar from mid-July.

Osipova arrives in Milan this weekend for two weeks of rehearsal as she will be dancing Rudolf Nureyev’s version of Swan Lake for the first time. Again Maina Gielgud, who prepared her for Nureyev’s version of  Don Quixote when Osipova made her début with the company in 2010, will be putting her through her paces. It was later the same year, in 2010, that the theatre brought back Nureyev’s Swan Lake which had been ditched a decade earlier for the much debated, and generally hated, version by Bournmeister.… [continue reading]

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