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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Il Trovatore: La Scala Could Do Better

25/02/201422/02/2014 by Stan

  ItalyItaly Verdi: Il Trovatore: Orchestra and Chorus Teatro allcala, Daniele Rustioni (conductor), Milan’s Teatro alla Scala,18 & 20.2.2014 (JMI).

Il trovatore di Giuseppe Verdi  Direttore: Daniele Rustioni  Regia, scene e costumi: Hugo De Ana  Luci: Marco Filibeck  Maestro d’armi: Renzo Musumeci Greco
Il trovatore :credit; Brescia/Amisano Teatro alla Scala

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags JM Irurzun, Milan

Britten/Auden Opera Proves to be Excellent Ensemble Piece

25/02/201421/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten Paul Bunyan: Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English Touring Opera/Philip Sunderland. Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 17.02.2014 (CC)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Colin Clarke, London

New Life for Rossini’s “Barber”

25/02/201419/02/2014 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Michele Mariotti (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 15.4.2014 (JLZ)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Chicago, James L. Zychowicz

Great Conducting and Vocal Fireworks in Covent Garden’s Turandot

25/02/201418/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra / Nicola Luisotti in Andrei Serban’s 1984 production: designs by Sally Jacobs. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 17.2.2014. (JPr)

Turandot by Puccini @ Royal Opera House. ©Tristram Kenton
Turandot by Puccini @ Royal Opera House.
©Tristram Kenton

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Jim Pritchard, London

Pucccini’s Edgar: No Masterpiece But Undeservedly Neglected

25/02/201418/02/2014 by Stan

GermanyGermany Puccini: Edgar, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Chor and Kinderchor der Oper Frankfurt, Marc Soustrot (conductor), Frankfurt Opernhaus, 16.2.2014 (JMI)

 

Edgar (Oper Frankfurt, 2014)  (c) Monika Rittershaus
Edgar (Oper Frankfurt, 2014)
(c) Monika Rittershaus

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Frankfurt, JM Irurzun

Falstaff: Laughs at Any Cost

25/02/201418/02/2014 by Stan

GermanyGermany Verdi: Falstaff, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Bertrand De Billy (conductor), Opernhaus Frankfurt, 15.2.2014 (JMI)

falstaff_03_HQ
Željko Lučić (Falstaff; in der Mitte im gestreiften Anzug stehend)
und das Ensemble
(c) Monika Rittershaus

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Frankfurt, JM Irurzun

Three More Diverse Dance Pieces at The Place

13/05/201418/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Simpson, Reinhardt, The Cinematic Orchestra, Resolution! 2014: The Sob in the Spine; You wave your dusty hands hello; Pace, Naomi Reynolds Dance, Mansoor Ali and Ellen Johansson, B-Hybrid Dance, The Place, London, 14.2.2014 (JO’D)

B-Hybrid Dance Pane Brian Gillespie
B-Hybrid Dance Pane Brian Gillespie

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London

Fulham’s Götterdämmerung a Triumph of Ambition and Perseverance

18/02/201417/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists of Fulham Opera, Nick Fletcher (piano accompanist), Fiona Williams (stage director), St John’s Church, Fulham, London, 16.2.2014. (JPr)

 

The London Gay Men's Chorus witness Siegfried's death rehearsal photo c Richard Carter
The London Gay Men’s Chorus witness Siegfried’s death rehearsal photo c Richard Carter

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Jim Pritchard, London
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