Jim Pritchard

English National Ballet’s Nutcracker Continues to Cast its Magical Spell

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker: Dancers of English National Ballet, Students from the English Ballet School, Supplemented Choir from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and English National Ballet Philharmonic/Gavin Sutherland (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 16.12.2015. (JPr)

Nutcracker
Shiori Kase as Clara and Cesar Corrales as Nephew with James Streeter as the Mouse King
(c) Laurent Liotardo

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Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection Evening Heats Up after a Slow Start

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various composers, Carlos Acosta: A Classical Selection: Carlos Acosta, Guest Soloists from the Royal Ballet, English National Opera Orchestra / Paul Murphy (conductor). London Coliseum, London, 8.12.2015. (JPr)

CARLOS AND FRIENDS, , London Colosium, 2015, Credit: Johan Persson/
Carlos Acosta with Marianela Núñez in Diana and Acteon
(c) Johan Persson

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Drug Pushing and People Trafficking in Fulham Opera’s Flying Dutchman

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (with a new reduced orchestration by Jonathan Finney): Soloists, chorus and musicians of Fulham Opera / Jonathan Finney (conductor). St John’s Church, Fulham, London, 5.12.2015. (JPr)

Dutchman
Fulham Opera’s Der fliegende Holländer
Keel Watson (Dutchman), John Milne (Daland) & Janet Fischer (Senta)
(c) Matthew Coughlan

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Met’s Inventive and Unusual Production Enhances the Expressionist Mood of Lulu

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United StatesUnited States Berg, Lulu: Soloists, Orchestra and Cast of Metropolitan Opera, New York, Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Production broadcast to Komedia Cinema, Brighton, 21.11.2015. (RB)

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The Met’s Lulu – Daniel Brenna (Alwa) & Marlis Petersen (Lulu)
(c) Ken Howard

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Dramatic Urgency and Angst in Independent Opera’s Staging of Voseček’s Biedermann and the Arsonists

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Šimon Voseček, Biedermann and the Arsonists: Independent Opera soloists and the Britten Sinfonia / Timothy Redmond (conductor). Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London, 17.11.2015. (JPr)

Mark Le Brocq, Leigh Melrose, Raphaela Papadakis, Alinka Kozari_(c) Robb...
Mark Le Brocq, Leigh Melrose, Raphaela Papadakis, Alinka Kozári in Independent Opera’s Biedermann and the Arsonists
(c) Robbie Jack

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Haas’s Morgen und Abend is a New Existential Opera Exploring Life and Death

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Georg Friedrich Haas, Morgen und Abend (world première):  Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Michael Boder (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 13.11.2015. (JPr)

Haas’s Morgen und Abend Klaus Maria Brandauer as Olai & Sarah Wegener as the Midwife © ROH & Clive Barda

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Carlos Acosta’s Farewell in Carmen Lacks his Usual Charisma

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Carlos Acosta’s Carmen (part of a mixed bill including Viscera, Afternoon of a Faun and Tchaikovsky Pas de deux): Soloists, Corps de ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Emmanuel Plasson and Martin Yates (conductors). Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and broadcast to the Empire Cinema, Basildon, Essex. 12.11.2015. (JPr)

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Carmen with Marialena Nuñez (Carmen) and Carlos Acosta (Don José) (c) Dave Morgan

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