Alessandra Ferri, Natalia Osipova and Steven McRae will be among the stars to dance in the exclusive QPAC season.

In exciting news for Australian ballet fans, Kevin O’Hare, Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet, has confirmed to Limelight that Alessandra Ferri will be coming to Brisbane to perform in Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, reprising a role which won her rave reviews in London.

^{Alessandra Ferri and members of The Royal Ballet in Woolf Works. Photo by Tristram Kenton for The Royal Ballet}

The sublime Italian ballerina, now 53, was a Principal at the Royal Ballet in the 1980s. She returned to the Company as a Guest Artist in 2015 to play Clarissa Dalloway in Woolf Works – which is inspired by three of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves, as well as some of her autobiographical writing. Ferri will reprise the role in London in January/February before performing it again in June/July as part of a Royal Ballet season at QPAC.

“She is sensational in it. There is something very moving about seeing this older ballerina dancing a role that’s really about somebody of her age and not...