United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker: Dancers of English National Ballet, Students from Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, Choir and Orchestra of English National Ballet / Gavin Sutherland (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 11.12.2013. (JPr)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
How the Whale Became…
Charm, Style and Magic in Ravel Double Bill
Lully Well Served, Molière Disserved
United States Lully and Molière, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme: Soloists, Cornish Opera Theater, Stephen Stubbs (music director), Makaela Pollock (stage director), Anna Mansbridge (choreographer), Cornish Playhouse, Seattle, 18.10.2013 (BJ)
Amore on the Beach
Spain Donizetti: L’Elisir d’Amore, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Real, Marc Piollet/Vicente Alberola (conductors), Teatro Real, Madrid, 6, 8 and 9.12.2013 (JMI).
Konnichiwa? Turin’s Un Ballo in Tokyo
Japan Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, 7.12.2013 (RP)
A Jolly Opera Colourfully Staged and Well Sung
United Kingdom Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore (sung in Italian with surtitles in English): Soloists, RNCM Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Francesco Pasqualetti (conductor), RNCM Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 8.12.2013. (RJF)
Lovely Virginia Magic Flute
United States W.A. Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Virginia Opera, Mark Russell Smith (conductor), George Mason University Center for the Arts, Fairfax, VA 12.6.2013 (RRR)