Jim Pritchard

Making Parsifal Accessible to the Younger Generation

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GermanyGermany  Bayreuth Festival 2015[1] Richard Wagner für Kinder – Parsifal: Soloists and Musicians of the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder) / Boris Schäfer. (conducor), Probebühne IV, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 2.8.2013. (JPr)

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(c) Jörg Schulze – the Flowermaidens in Richard Wagner für Kinder – Parsifal

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‘The Play’s the Thing’: Shakespeare and Mendelssohn Combine to Excellent Effect

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2015 – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn: Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Anna Sideris (soprano), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano), Chorus and Orchestra of Garsington Opera / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 22.7.2015 (JPr)

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Ross Armstrong,  Joan Iyiola,  Forbes Masson  Simon Manyonda, Hedydo Dylan, and Marty Cruickshank (c) Mark Douet

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Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Betrothal and Betrayal:

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  United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Betrothal and Betrayal: Soloists, Welsh National Opera Orchestra / Paul Wynne Griffiths, Michele Gamba & Jonathan Santagada (conductors),  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 18.7.2015 (JPr)

JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS; Betrothal and Betrayal; Royal Opera House; Covent Garden; London,UK; 17 July 2015; Adriana Lecouvreur, excerpts from Act 1: Left to right: LAUREN FAGAN as Mlle Jouvenot; RACHEL KEL;LY as Mlle Dangeville; YURIY YURCHUK as Michonnet; JAMES PLATT as Quinault;; LUIS GOMES as Poisson; Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA
JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS;
Betrothal and Betrayal;
Royal Opera House;
Covent Garden;

Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA

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