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Opera & Ballet

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Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso: Taking the Humourous Path

15/03/201417/02/2014 by Stan

GermanyGermany Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Felice Venanzoni (conductor), Opernhaus Frankfurt, 14.2.2014 (JMI)

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Vivaldi Orlando Furioso Oper Frankfurt Photo (C) Monika Rittershaus

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Opera, Opera & Ballet Tags Frankfurt, JM Irurzun

Holten’s Don Giovanni Lacks Magic and Comedy

30/12/202016/02/2014 by Stan

Mozart, Don Giovanni (in a new production by Kaspar Holten): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Nicola Luisotti. Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex. 12.2.2014. (JPr)

DON GIOVANNI, ROH Photo (c) Bill Cooper
DON GIOVANNI, ROH Photo (c) Bill Cooper

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Categories Broadcasts and Film, Broadcasts, Musicals, & Others, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Jim Pritchard, London

ENO’s Rigoletto Exposes Victorian Morality’s Darker Side

05/02/201715/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera/Graeme Jenkins (conductor, London Coliseum, London, 13.2.2014. (JPr)

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

English Touring Opera Triumphs with Tippett’s King Priam

18/02/201414/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tippett, King Priam: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of English Touring Opera / Michael Rosewell (conductor), Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 13.2.2014 (MB)

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Categories Concert Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Concerts, UK Opera Tags London, Mark Berry

Misconceived Approach to Manon Lescaut Can’t Hide its Musical Power Entirely

18/02/201413/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Manon Lescaut: (UK Production Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 8.2.2014 (GPu)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Cardiff, Glyn Pursglove

Retrospection and Humour in Pina Bausch Dance Piece

13/05/201412/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Various Composers, 1980 – A Piece by Pina Bausch: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells, London, 11.02.2014 (JO’D)

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

Handel’s Theodora: a Simply Terrific Evening

13/08/202012/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel Theodora, HWV68 (1750) Soloists, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, The English Concert, Harry Bickett (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 8.2.2014. (CC)

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

Charm and Grace Abound in Mid-Wales Opera’s Acis and Galatea

18/02/201411/02/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel, Acis and Galatea (production premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Brecon Baroque / Nicholas Cleobury (conductor) Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 30.1.2014 (GPu)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Cardiff, Glyn Pursglove
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