United Kingdom Easy Rider, Eva Recacha/The Place: The Place, London, 26.0.2014 (J.O’D)
Conviction and Daring in Eva Recacha’s Easy Rider
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Miraculous Pacing in Levine’s Cosi fan tutte
United States Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/James Levine. Telecast from the Metropolitan Opera, New York at Barbican Cinema 1, London, 26.4.2014
Birmingham Royal Ballet launch City’s International Dance Festival with Verve
United Kingdom Three Short Works: Quatrain; Kin; Les Rendezvous: Artists of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Philip Ellis (Conductor). The Crescent, Birmingham, 24:4:2014 (GR).
Crystal Pite’s Choreographed Encounters Based on The Tempest
United Kingdom Belton, The Tempest Replica: Kidd Pivot/Crystal Pite, Sadler’s Wells, London, 25.4.2014 (J.O’D)
Lang and Daszak Triumph in Geneva’s Götterdämmerung
Switzerland Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Chorus of Grand Théâtre, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ingo Metzmacher. Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland 23.4.2014. (JPr)
Deutsche Oper’s honest, sensitive and impressive Parsifal
Germany Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus, Men of the Extra Chorus, and Children’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin (chorus masters: William Spaulding, Christian Lindhorst), Opera-ballet and Statisterie of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin / Axel Kober (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 21.4.2014. (MB)
Post-Modernist Zauberflöte Dispenses with Dialogue
Germany Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin, Kristiina Poska (conductor). Komische Oper, Berlin, 13.4.2014 (MB)
Frederica von Stade in the Chamber Opera, A Coffin in Egypt
United States Gordon, A Coffin in Egypt: Kathleen Kelly (conductor), Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 23.4.14-27.4.14 (JRo)
Photo by Lynn Lane.