Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Mostly Mozart Festival (4): Le nozze di Figaro All Dressed Up

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Mostly Mozart Festival (4), Le nozze di Figaro (Mostly Mozart première), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor), Rose Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, 11-8-2013 (SSM)

Photo: MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro ; Budapest Festival Orchestra with Iván Fischer, conductor and director; performance photographed: Sunday, August 11, 2013; 5:00 PM at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center; New York, NY. Photograph: © 2013 Richard Termine. Photo Credit: Photo by Richard Termine
Photo: MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro ; Budapest Festival Orchestra with
Iván Fischer Photograph: © 2013 Richard Termine.
Photo Credit: Photo by Richard Termine

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La Traviata: Shared Production in San Sebastián

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 Verdi: La Traviata, Euskadi Symphonic Orchestra, Easo Chorus, Pietro Rizzo (conductor), Quincena Musical de San Sebastián, Kursaal, 11.8.2013 (JMI) New production in association with Festival El Escorial, Opera Oviedo, Pamplona’s Baluarte and Cordoba’s Gran Teatro. Cast: Violetta: Desirée Rancatore Alfredo: José Bros Germont: Ángel Ódena Flora: Pilar Vázquez Grenvil: Miguel Ángel Zapater Annina: Marta Ubieta … Read more

Fidelio at Edinburgh(4): A Worthy Musical Performance Compromised by a Dog’s Breakfast Production

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2013 (4) – Beethoven: Fidelio Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra de Lyon, Kazushi Ono (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 12.8.2013 (SRT)

Fidelio 1, photo by Bertrand Stofleth

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Last Year’s Troubled Bayreuth Dutchman Streams In To Thunderous Applause In 2013

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2013 [3] Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival. Conductor: Christian Thielemann. Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 6.8.2013. (JPr)

 

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Der fliegende Hollander (c) Bayreuth Festspiele 2013
Photo (c) Enrico Nawrath

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Bayreuth 2: Catch ‘em Young! Bayreuth Introduces Wagner to Children

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2013 [2] Richard Wagner für Kinder – Tristan und Isolde: Soloists and musicians of the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder). Conductor: Boris Schäfer. Probebühne IV, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 6.8.2013. (JPr) 

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Richard Wagner für Kinder – Tristan und Isolde
(c)  Jörge Schulze

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Va Pensiero Mars Nabucco From Buenos Aires Lírica

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ArgentinaArgentina Verdi, Nabucco: Buenos AiresLírica. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Buenos AiresLírica, Conductor:Javier Logioia Orbe. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 2.8.2013. (JSJ)

Abigaille (Mónica Ferracani) in her dying moments at the end of Act 4 of Buenos Aires Lírica’s new production of Nabucco. Photo Buenos Aires Lírica
Abigaille (Mónica Ferracani) in her dying moments at the end of Act 4 of Buenos Aires Lírica’s new production of Nabucco. Photo Buenos Aires Lírica

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