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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

RNCM’s Treasurable Production of Hansel and Gretel is Enchanting

30/03/201822/03/2018 by Michael Cookson

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Royal Northern College of Music / Anthony Kraus (conductor). RNCM Opera Theatre, Manchester. 19.3.2018. (MC)

Iain Henderson (Gingerbread Witch) in Hansel and Gretel © Robert Workman

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Categories Opera & Ballet, UK Opera Tags Manchester, Michael Cookson 2 Comments

A Well-Nigh Perfect Production of Heggie’s Moby-Dick

26/03/201821/03/2018 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States Heggie, Moby-Dick: Soloists, Attack Theatre Dancers, Pittsburgh Opera Symphony and Men of the Chorus / Anthony Walker (conductor), Pittsburgh Opera, Benedum Center for the Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, 17.3.2018. (RP)

Sean Panikkar (Greenhorn) in Moby-Dick © David Bachman

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A Near Perfect Flying Dutchman

26/03/201821/03/2018 by John Rhodes

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Markus Poschner (conductor), Zurich Opera, Zurich. 18.3.2018. (JR)

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Fellow Travelers Dramatizes the McCarthy Era

26/03/201820/03/2018 by James Zychowicz

United StatesUnited States Gregory Spears, Fellow Travelers: Soloists, Chorus, Lyric Opera of Chicago / Daniela Candillari (conductor), Athenaeum Theater, Chicago. 17.3.2018. (JLZ)

The cast of Fellow Travelers © Todd Rosenberg

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Fine Singing and a Staging that Could Hardly be Bettered at the RNCM

26/03/201819/03/2018 by Robert Farr

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Royal Northern College of Music / Anthony Kraus (conductor). RNCM Opera Theatre. 17.3.2018. (RJF)

Kimberley Raw (Witch) in Hansel and Gretel (c) Robert Workman

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Mid-Wales Opera’s Attractive and Intimate Eugene Onegin

26/03/201819/03/2018 by Glyn Pursglove

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists and Ensemble Cymru / Jonathan Lyness (conductor), Riverfront Theatre, Newport, 16.3.2018. (GPu)

Mid Wales Opera’s Eugene Onegin (c) MWO

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In their Year of Change Ballet Black’s Barbican Performances Hold the Attention

26/03/201819/03/2018 by John O'Dwyer

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ballet Black – The Suit and A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Barbican Theatre, London, 16.3.2018. (JO’D)

Cathy Marston’s The Suit for Ballet Black
(c) Bill Cooper

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Making the Case for Bernstein’s A Quiet Place

26/03/201818/03/2018 by Rick Perdian

United StatesUnited States Bernstein, A Quiet Place: Soloists, Curtis Symphony Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Curtis Opera Theatre at the Perelman, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 9.3.2018. (RP)

Dennis Chmelensky in Curtis Opera Theatre’s A Quiet Place © Paula Court

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