The Royal Ballet exhibits Ashton’s Cinderella choreography in their Disneyfied new staging

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prokofiev, Cinderella: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels (conductor). Broadcast (directed by Ross MacGibbon) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 12.4.2023. (JPr)

Vadim Muntagirov (The Prince) and Marianela Núñez (Cinderella) © Tristram Kenton

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Götterdämmerung ends a Berlin Ring which challenged and taught us much, moving us too

GermanyGermany Berlin Festtage [4] – Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 10.4.2023. (MB)

Götterdämmerung (Act III) © Monika Rittershaus

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The orchestral virtuosity in Melbourne Opera’s Götterdämmerung is a lasting memory of their Ring

AustraliaAustralia Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Melbourne Opera / Anthony Negus (conductor). Livestreamed on Australian Digital Concert Hall from the Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, 2.4.2023. (JPr)

Bradley Daley (Siegfried), Steven Gallop (Hagen) and Christopher Hillier (Gunther) © Robin Halls

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A welcome post-Covid step back towards operatic ‘normality’ with Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden

GermanyGermany Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Children’s Choir of the Semperoper Dresden, Dresden State Opera Chorus (chorus director: André Kellinghaus), Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Semperoper, Dresden, 3.4.2023. (MB)

Der Rosenkavalier © Semperoper Dresden/Klaus Gigga

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