Events Reviews Articles Video

Composer: Ellington, Duke (1899-1974)

Find classical music concert, opera, ballet and dance listings | Ellington

Live performancesMore...

© Ebru Yildiz

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Fri 2 Oct at 20:00

Coward, Ellington, Sondheim, Strayhorn, Savant, Weill, Coleman, Legrand, Johnson

McLorin Salvant, Fortner, Nakamura, Poole, Stil, Orchestre de chambre de Paris

© Andrew Eccles

Teatro Real: Sala Principal

Wed 14 Oct at 19:30

Night Creature, Cry, Revelations

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Harper, Greenwood, Spence, Giannini, Cernovitch, Ailey

© Andrew Eccles

Teatro Real: Sala Principal

Night Creature, A Song For You, Cry, Grace, Revelations

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Harper, Greenwood, Spence, Giannini, Cernovitch, Reed, Prendergast, Wunmi Olaiya, Kamei, Ailey, Brown

Latest reviewsMore...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Ailey’s Night Creature © Glyn Stanley

Legacy: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater are simply sensational at Sadler’s Wells

By Deborah Weiss

Thomas Wilkins conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic © Farah Sosa, courtesy of the LA Phil

Winter Daydreams and a Jazz Age Nutcracker at Disney Hall

By Néstor Castiglione

John Wilson © BBC | Chris Christodoulou

Blazing performances of American classics from John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London

By Chris Garlick

Latest articlesMore...

Fact file

Year of birth	1899
Year of death	1974
Nationality	United States
Period	Early 20th century

Top works

Harlem It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't got that Swing Night Creature Solitude Sophisticated Lady See all...

List of works

Ducal Suite Echoes of Harlem Harlem It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't got that Swing Mood Indigo Night Creature Solitude Sophisticated Lady The Nutcracker Suite The River Suite Three Black Kings Tonk