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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Exceptional Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera

29/06/201908/06/2019 by Valeria Vescina

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Grange Park Opera 2019 – Verdi, Don Carlo: Soloists, Grange Park Opera Chorus, English National Opera Orchestra / Gianluca Marcianò (conductor). West Horsley Place, Surrey. 6.6.2019. (VV)

Marina Costa-Jackson (Elisabeth) and Leonardo Capalbo (Don Carlos)
(c) Robert Workman

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Categories Festival 2019, Festivals, Opera & Ballet, UK Opera Tags Valeria Vescina, West Horsley Leave a comment

Entirely Compelling Semperoper Die tote Stadt

29/06/201907/06/2019 by Michael Cookson

United StatesUnited States Korngold, Die tote Stadt: Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Kinderchor der Sächsischen Staastoper Dresden, Sächsischer Staatskapelle Dresden / Dmitri Jurowski (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 4.6.2019. (MC)

Die tote Stadt (c) David Baltzer

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet Tags Dresden, Michael Cookson Leave a comment

First-Timers in Bizet’s Classic Yield Uneven Results in San Francisco

29/06/201907/06/2019 by Harvey Steiman
Anita Hartig (Micaëla), Matthew Polenzani (Don José), and J’Nai Bridges (Carmen)
(c) Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)

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Good Performance of Manon Lescaut Despite a Less than Engaging Production

29/06/201906/06/2019 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Soloists, Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus master: Richard Harker), City of London Sinfonia, Peter Robinson (conductor). Holland Park, London, 4.6.2019 (MB)

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Manon Lescaut). Shadow Manons and OHP Chorus
© Robert Workman

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Categories Opera & Ballet, UK Opera Tags London, Mark Berry 1 Comment

Experiments in Opera Premieres the Zany, Crazy and Touching Chunky in Heat

17/08/202005/06/2019 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States 2019 New York Opera Fest [6] – Various Composers, Chunky in Heat: Soloists, Contemporaneous / David Bloom (conductor), Experiments in Opera, The Flea Theater, New York, 2.6.2019. (RP)

 Sarah Daniels (Chunky) © Reuben Radding

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Sleepy but epic, Zurich revives a Robert Wilson Norma

29/06/201905/06/2019 by Casey Creel

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bellini: Norma: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Fabio Luisi (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 2.6.2019. (CCr)

Norma (c Toni Suter

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Richard Strauss Is Well Served by the Teatro Real’s New Capriccio

23/05/202103/06/2019 by José Irurzun

SpainSpain Richard Strauss, Capriccio: Teatro Real Orchestra / Asher Fisch (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 2.6.2019. (JMI)

Teatro Real’s Capriccio (c) Javier del Real

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, This Week's Review Tags José Irurzun, Madrid 1 Comment

Bernstein’s Masterwork Comes Alive in Chicago

29/06/201903/06/2019 by James Zychowicz

United StatesUnited States Bernstein, West Side Story: Soloists, Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / James Lowe (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago. 18.5.19 (JLZ)

West Side Story at Lyric Opera of Chicago (c) Todd Rosenberg

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