Russia's third-largest supermarket chain plans to raise as much as $500 million (£315 million) through a new share listing on the London Stock Exchange before the year end... more
We chose the six bright new stars on the fashion horizon to design a one-off outfit. And where better to show off the results than Westfield Stratford – soon to become a hot fashion destination of its own?... more
Two years after its spirited debut at the Coliseum, the little-known Mikhailovsky Ballet is back for Swan Lake with a longer visit and larger programme.... more
Teenage ballerina who became the first British dancer to be accepted into one of Russia's most prestigious ballet schools is to make a triumphant return to London to perform in Swan Lake... more
Love it or hate it, the LSO's Mahler cycle is the latest hot ticket. That, says its hair-raising conductor Valery Gergiev, is because 'together we are saying something new'.... more
As touring Swan Lakes go, the St Petersburg production is not too bad, but it doesn't have dancers with the artistry needed to turn the world's most famous ballet into a work of art.... more
Napoleon's wife, the Empress Josephine, built an art gallery and decorated their retreat at Malmaison in the latest style. A new exhibition at Somerset House evokes this extraordinary woman.... more
Saturday's Prom, spirited into energetic life by Mark Elder, showed the 150-odd teenagers of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain on fine form.... more
While this latest import from St Petersburg clown troupe Teatr Licedei doesn't quite live up to expectations, it is a lovely piece, packed with delicious slices of slapstick humour and pathos.... more
Flitting between St Petersburg, Cardiff and the Barbican, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Chorus are seemingly inexhaustible, says Barry Millington.... more
The St Petersburg Ballet Theatre has merit, and bits of its Nutcracker are sweetly done. But while the dancers aim for artistry, the management budgets for panto.... more
An ill-fitting Chekhovian languor hangs over the first half of director Lev Dodin's production of King Lear. For Dodin, and adaptor Dina Dodina, don't seem to trust Shakespeare all that much.... more
Kurt Masur can be trusted to deliver Hans Werner Henze's opera with all the ferocity it demands when he conducts the Orchestre National de France at the Proms tonight.... more
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