Heaven, hell, and everything in between: Wayne McGregor’s new work for The Royal Ballet has huge scale and ambition, with a rich new score by Thomas Ades. Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, with ...

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 ...

Dante, often a bystander to his own spiritual quest here, finds his own flailing arms and winding feet, and then watches moments from his own previous life with Beatrice, to skirling pipes and drums.

This is the 700th anniversary year of Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s death, and the legacy of his visually rich Divine Comedy is the bedrock for Wayne McGregor’s stunning new production. The Dante ...

A Vatican priest has composed a lavish, large-scale musical version of Dante's Divine Comedy with hopes to see it staged this fall. Musician and composer Monsignor Marco Frisina wrote the music and ...

Dante's Divine Comedy is an iconic work of Italian literature, a narrative poem which imagines the world of the afterlife as seen through a medieval world view. Begun in c1308 and completed by the ...