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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Cesar Corrales Wins the Emerging Dancer Award Convincingly

23/05/201618/05/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer 2016 Final: Nominated dancers, soloists, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor). London Palladium, London, 17.5.2016. (JPr)

Finalists
ENB’s Emerging Dancer 2016 – Winners, Nominees and Judges
(c) Laurent Liotardo

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet Tags Jim Pritchard, London Leave a comment

ENO’s Enjoyable Madama Butterfly Poses a Few Problems

23/05/201618/05/2016 by Mark Berry

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus (chorus master: James Henshaw) of the English National Opera / Richard Armstrong (conductor), Coliseum, London, 16.5.2016. (MB)

rsz_eno_madam_butterfly_sorrow_with_rena_harms_and_stephanie_windsor-lewis_c_tom_bowles
ENO’s Madam Butterfly with Rena Harms (Butterfly) and Stephanie Windsor-Lewis (Suzuki)
(c) Tom Bowles

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Categories Opera & Ballet, This Week's Review, UK Opera Tags London, Mark Berry Leave a comment

An Enchanting Sleeping Beauty in Dresden

23/05/201618/05/2016 by Michael Cookson

GermanyGermany Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty: Semperoper Ballet, Staatskapelle Dresden/Paul Connelly (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 12.5.2016. (MC)

Photo credit: Semperoper.
Photo credit: Semperoper.

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While Not Perfect WNO Realize Ian Bell’s highly ambitious In Parenthesis Well

23/05/201617/05/2016 by Glyn Pursglove

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bell, In Parenthesis:  (World Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 13.5.2016. (GPu)

WNO In Parenthesis. Photo credit - Bill Cooper 925
WNO’s In Parenthesis (c) Bill Cooper

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Fine Cast in Gimmicky Production of Figaro at Semperoper, Dresden

23/05/201616/05/2016 by Michael Cookson

GermanyGermany Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Omer Meir Wellber (conductor),  Semperoper, Dresden, Germany, 11.5.2016. (MC)

Photo credit: Semperoper.
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (c) Semperoper

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A Very Merry Widow From Juventus Lyrica

23/05/201616/05/2016 by Jonathan Spencer Jones

ArgentinaArgentina Lehár, The Merry Widow: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Juventus Lyrica, André Dos Santos (conductor), Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires, 6.5.2016. (JSJ)

Juventus Lyrica’s Merry Widow. Photo credit: Juan Ingelmo.
Juventus Lyrica’s Merry Widow. Photo credit: Juan Ingelmo.

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A Lush and Satisfying La bohème at Los Angeles Opera

23/05/201616/05/2016 by Jane Rosenberg

United StatesUnited States Puccini, La bohème: LA Opera, Speranza Scappucci (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 14.5.2016. (JRo)

Mario Chang, Nino Machaidze, Giorgio Caoduro, and Janai Brugger in LA Opera's 2016 production of La Bohème (Photo credit: Ken Howard/LA Opera)
Mario Chang, Nino Machaidze, Giorgio Caoduro, and Janai Brugger in LA Opera’s La bohème
(c) Ken Howard/LA Opera)

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Bejun Mehta and William Christie in an Outstanding Orlando

19/05/201616/05/2016 by John Rhodes

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Handel, Orlando: Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich, William Christie (conductor), Soloists, Zurich Opera 13.5.16. (JR)

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