Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Royal Ballet Attempts to Recreate its First Post-War Production

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky,The Sleeping Beauty: Soloists, Students of The Royal Ballet School, Corps de Ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Valery Ovsyanikov (conductor). Live cinema relay (introduced by Darcey Bussell) broadcast to the Vue Cinema, Piccadilly, London. 19.3.2014. (JPr)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY by Tchaikovsky, , Music – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Choreography – Marius Petipa, Design – Oliver Messel, Lighting – Mark Jonathan, The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, London, UK, 2011, Credit: Johan Persson /
The Sleeping Beauty (c) Johan Persson/ROH

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Elspeth Brooke, The Commission and Francisco Coll, Café Kafka Premier at ROH

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Elspeth Brooke, The Commission, and Francisco Coll, Café Kafka (London premieres): Soloists, CHROMA / Richard Baker (conductor). Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 17.3.2014 (MB)

The Commission/Cafe Kafka - Aldbergh / ROH, March 2014 Photo (c) Stephen Cummiskey
The Commission/Cafe Kafka – Aldbergh / ROH, March 2014
Photo (c) Stephen Cummiskey

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Refined Playing Keeps Werther’s Emotions in Check Until Climax

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United StatesUnited States  Massenet, Werther (new production by Sir Richard Eyre and directed for live cinema by Gary Halvorson): soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 15.3.2014. (JPr)

Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in the Metropolitan Opera production of Massenet’s “Werther.” Photo: Ken Howard
Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in the Met’s production of Werther
(c) Ken Howard

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