Jonathan Spencer Jones

Buenos Aires Independents’ 2015 Season – Some Gems To Come

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Buenos Aires Independents’ 2015 Season – Some Gems To Come (JSJ)  At the time of writing this, with the prospect of a 2015 season opening of Tosca, a new production of the work opens in La Plata – raising the thorny but perennially topical question of the extent to which independent organizations should simply pursue … Read more

Electrifiying Elektra at Teatro Colón

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ArgentinaArgentina Strauss, Elektra: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Colón. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 31.10.2014. (JSJ)

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Manuela Uhl (Chrysothemis) and Linda Watson (Elektra) in Teatro Colón’s new production of Elektra. (Photo Prensa Teatro Colón/Arnaldo Colombaroli)

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Kitsch Romeo y Juliet In Buenos Aires

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ArgentinaArgentina Gounod, Roméo et Juliette: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Buenos Aires Lírica, Conductor: Javier Logioia Orbe. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 21.10.2014. (JSJ)

Oriana Favaro (Juliette) and Santiago Ballerini (Roméo) in Buenos Aires Lírica’s new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Photo Liliana Morsia
Oriana Favaro (Juliette) and Santiago Ballerini (Roméo) in Buenos Aires Lírica’s new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Photo Liliana Morsia

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Traditional Traviata In La Plata

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ArgentinaArgentina Verdi, La Traviata: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus of Teatro Argentino. Conductor: Carlos Vieu, Teatro Argentino, La Plata. 19.9.2014. (JSJ)

Alfredo’s (Darío Schmunck) denouncement of Violetta (Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs) in Act 2 of Teatro Argentino’s La Traviata. Photo Teatro Argentino.
Alfredo’s (Darío Schmunck) denouncement of Violetta (Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs) in Act 2 of Teatro Argentino’s La Traviata. Photo Teatro Argentino.

 

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Falstaff’s Last Laugh In Outstanding Colón Production

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ArgentinaArgentina Verdi, Falstaff: Soloists, Chorus of Teatro Colón, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Roberto Paternostro, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 16.9.2014. (JSJ)

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Ambrogio Maestri (Falstaff) and Fabián Veloz (Ford) in Teatro Colón production.Photo Prensa Teatro)  Colón/Máximo Parpagnoli)

 

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Don Giovanni The Predator In Buenos Aires

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 ArgentinaArgentina Mozart, Don Giovanni: Buenos AiresLírica. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Buenos AiresLírica,Conductor:Pedro-Pablo Prudencio. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 22.8.2014. (JSJ)

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Don Giovanni (Nahuel Di Pierro) about to meet his fate with a stunned Leporello (Iván García).Photo Liliana Morsia

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