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Month: November 2013

Highly Imaginative Bach from Maxim Rysanov and Friends

24/11/2013 by Stan

 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bach: Maxim Rysanov (viola), Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Kristina Blaumane (cello), Iain Farrington (harpsichord). Hall One, Kings Place, London, 20.11.2013 (MB)

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Categories Concert Reviews Tags London, Mark Berry Leave a comment

Clark Combines Classical and Modern Dance to Great Effect

13/05/201424/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Various Composers, Michael Clark Company: Barbican Centre, London, 22.11.2013 (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London Leave a comment

Uplifting Messiah in Buenos Aires

27/01/201624/11/2013 by Stan

ArgentinaArgentina Handel, Messiah: Soloists, Ensamble Academia Bach and Orfeón de Buenos Aires. Conductor: Mario Videla, Festivales Musicales de Buenos Aires at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 3.11.2011. (JSJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Jonathan Spencer Jones Leave a comment

Handel’s Radamisto: Not Your Ordinary Student Production

25/01/201424/11/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Handel, Radamisto: Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415, Julian Wachner (conductor), Peter J. Sharp Theater, Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, New York, 20.11.2013 (SSM)

 

John Holiday as Radamisto and Virginie Verrez as Zenobia Photo credit: Nan Melville
John Holiday as Radamisto and Virginie Verrez as Zenobia
Photo credit: Nan Melville

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger Leave a comment

How to Find a Review

24/11/201324/11/2013 by Stan


IMPORTANT : This site contains only  reviews and  articles published from April 2011
.   For reviews  earlier than that  – from 1999 onwards please visit our Archive Pages which are HERE

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Budapest’s Erkel Theatre Reopens with a Double Bill

08/12/201324/11/2013 by Stan

HungaryHungary Vajda, Mario and the Musician; Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle: Hungarian State Opera, Gregory Vajda (conductor), Erkel Theatre, Budapest, 14.11.2013

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Budapest, Roderic Dunnett Leave a comment

RSNO Bring Colour and Spirituality to 20th Century Composers

08/12/201323/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Messiaen, Beethoven, Rachmaninov: Nikolai Lugansky (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 22.11.2013 (SRT)

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Inspired Choral Singing in Glass’s Indian Opera

08/12/201323/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glass, Satyagraha (sung in Saskrit):  Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), London Coliseum, 20.11.2013 (CC)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Colin Clarke, London Leave a comment
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