Première: Ratmansky’s „Callirhoe“, Vienna State Ballet (Wiener Staatsballett): October 19th, 2025
 
 „Callirhoe“ – European Première – Vienna State Ballet (Wiener Staatsballett): October 19th, 2025

Première evenings always have a certain scent of excitement in the air. That is normal. But this last one, was „a notch above“. Whether it is because we haven’t had an event in this magnitude for years in the Vienna State Ballet or because it was the first Première under Alessandra Ferri’s direction in the State Opera (there had been one at „NEST“, the News State Opera just a few days ago) or just because the ballet public, critics and fans are returning, after a long pause, to the Opera…

…A very recommendable performance.

And we cannot forget a very deserved mention. Many thanks to Miss Ferri for reminding us that “A night in the Ballet” (Just to paraphrase “A night at the Opera”) can be a great joy and bring us so much back: thoughts, ideas, delicacies, feelings… we had forgotten.

Ricardo Leitner / a t t i t u d e

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