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Elemental Forces Drive Lucy Guerin’s “Weather”

07/10/201305/10/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Lucy Guerin (with dancers from the premiere season), “Weather,”  Lucy Guerin Inc.,  Royce Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, 4.10.13 (JRo)

 

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Lucy Guerin  “Weather”
Photo: Heidrun Lohr

 

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Concert Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jane Rosenberg, Los Angeles

Dancers Focus on Movement and the Space Around

07/10/201304/10/2013 by Stan

 Dessner/Peck,  Lang/Millepied, Bryars/Forsythe:  L. A. Dance Project, Sadler’s Wells, London, 3.10.2013 (JO’D)

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

Fun and Sobriety in a Dream Program

04/10/201304/10/2013 by Stan

 United StatesUnited States  Bartók, Beethoven, Haydn, and Johann Strauss, Jr.: Jeffrey Kahane (piano), Oregon Symphony,Carlos Kalmar (conductor), Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, 28.9.2013 (BJ)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Bernard Jacobson, Portland

The Greatest Ever Season: Rome Opera’s 2013-2014 Programme

10/08/201403/10/2013 by Stan


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Categories Do Not Print in Recent Reviews, Previously Published Tags Jack Buckley, Rome

Madrid Opera Season Opens with Disappointing Barbiere

07/10/201303/10/2013 by Stan

SpainSpain G. Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Tomas Hanus (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real 25 & 26.9.2013 (JMI)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags JM Irurzun, Madrid

Gripping Production of Greek Avoids Violence

07/10/201302/10/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mark-Anthony Turnage, Greek: Music Theatre Wales: Michael Rafferty, conductor. Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 1.10.2013 (PCG)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Cardiff, Paul Corfield Godfrey

Sumptuous Singing from Ruth Ann Swenson

07/10/201301/10/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Composers from Bellini to Lehár: Ruth Ann Swenson (soprano), Warren Jones (piano), Weill Hall, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif. 29.9.2013 (HS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Harvey Steiman, Rohnert Park

Exciting Young Principal Conductor-In-the-Waiting

07/10/201301/10/2013 by Stan

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Ravel, Schumann and Bartok: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Martin Helmchen (piano), Lionel Bringuier, (conductor), Tonhalle Zurich 30.9.2103 (JR)

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Lionel Bringuier Copyright: Jonathan Grimbert Barre

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags John Rhodes, Zurich
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