United Kingdom Various composers, Rice: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan/Sadler’s Wells, Sadler’s Wells, London, 27.2.2014 (JO’D)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Triumphant Threepenny Opera Focuses on Urban Destitution
United Kingdom Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera: Graeae Theatre Co, Nottingham Playhouse, 25.2.2014 (RD)
Up for grabs – Macheath (MiltonLopes) torn between Lucy (Natasha Lewis) and Polly (CiCi Howells) Photo – Patrick Baldwin
Black and Asian Dancers Steeped in Classical Ballet Tradition
United Kingdom Limbo, Two of a Kind, A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream: Ballet Black, Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), London, 26.02.2014 (JO’D)
Vancouver Island Does Naxos Island Proud
Canada Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Pacific Opera Victoria, soloists, Oriol Tomas (director), Ian Rye (set designer), Sheila White (costume designer)), Kimberly Purtell (lighting designer), Jacques Lemay (choreographer), Victoria Symphony, Timothy Vernon (conductor), Royal Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, 21.2.2014 (BJ)
Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala: Playing Safe Does Not Always Work
Italy Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), La Scala, Milan, 19 & 21.2.2014 (JMI).
Ana Maria Martinez in Triumphant Rusalka Premiere
United States Dvořák, Rusalka: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis, (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 22.2.2014 (JLZ)
Musically Impressive Zauberflöte Let Down by Comic Shenanigans
Germany Mozart: Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Saxon State Opera Chorus, Staatskapelle Dresden / Stefan Klingele (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 20.2.2014 (SRT)
Rapturous Performance of Purcell’s Fairy Queen at Bury Court
United Kingdom Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Soloists and Chorus of Bury Court Opera with Southbank Sinfonia/Simon Over (conductor), Bury Court, Farnham, 22.2.2014. (RD)
