Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Premier of Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica at Glimmerglass: Singers Galore

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United StatesUnited States Vivaldi: Catone in Utica, Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra, Alice Busch Opera Theater, Glimmerglass, New York, 18.7.2015 (SSM)

John Holiday as Caesar and Thomas Michael Allen as Cato in The Glimmerglass Festival's 2015 production of Vivaldi's "Cato in Utica." Photo: Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival.
John Holiday as Caesar and Thomas Michael Allen as Cato in The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2015 Production of Vivaldi’s “Cato in Utica.” Photo: Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival.

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Experienced Dancers from Different Backgrounds Impress in Ardani 25 Dance Gala

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United KingdomUnited KingdomGlass, Chopin and other composers, Ardani 25 Dance Gala: Marriott, Gomes, Pita, Sergei Danilian, London Coliseum, London, 17.7.2015 (J.O’D)

Dancers Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev perform "Solo for Two" at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California on July 25, 2014. Picture Credit Douglas Gifford
Dancers Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev perform “Solo for Two” at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California on July 25, 2014. Picture Credit Douglas Gifford

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Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Betrothal and Betrayal:

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  United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Betrothal and Betrayal: Soloists, Welsh National Opera Orchestra / Paul Wynne Griffiths, Michele Gamba & Jonathan Santagada (conductors),  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 18.7.2015 (JPr)

JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS; Betrothal and Betrayal; Royal Opera House; Covent Garden; London,UK; 17 July 2015; Adriana Lecouvreur, excerpts from Act 1: Left to right: LAUREN FAGAN as Mlle Jouvenot; RACHEL KEL;LY as Mlle Dangeville; YURIY YURCHUK as Michonnet; JAMES PLATT as Quinault;; LUIS GOMES as Poisson; Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA
JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS;
Betrothal and Betrayal;
Royal Opera House;
Covent Garden;

Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA

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