Jane Jones marks both the Winter Olympics and St. Valentine’s Day with a work which is associated with both occasions. Boléro, the most famous work by French composer Maurice Ravel, was written more ...

Tom Service explores Ravel's Bolero – a classical chart-topper, concert-hall-filler and the soundtrack to Torvill and Dean's Olympic skating glory. Show more Tom Service explores Ravel's Bolero – a ...

Maurice Ravel loved small, fascinating things, notably clock mechanisms and children. Both figure into his operas " " and " " which are also small, fascinating things, but which in season-closing ...

Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

Composed in 1928, Ravel's rhythmic piece will be forever synonymous with ice-skating stars Torvill and Dean. On Valentine’s Day in 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean became the highest-scoring ...

After its acclaimed performances both locally and abroad, Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero is back at the John Kani Theatre, Johannesburg Market Theatre, from 31 October to 3 November. This special ...

On Sunday 19 August we are streaming Laurent Pelly's new production of Ravel's two short operas, l'Heure Espagnole and l'Enfant et les Sortilèges live from Glyndebourne. Join our critics Andrew ...

Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history I don’t know about you, but I love losing myself ...

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Ravel first performed "Bolero" at the Paris Opera in 1928 and it was an immediate sensation. He died 10 years later and his heirs earned millions of dollars until the copyright ran out in 2016 and the ...