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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

BRB’s Giselle: Midsummer Madness and Poignant Farewells

29/06/201324/06/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Adolphe Adam, Giselle: (Performed to the choreography of Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, with additional material from David Bintley), Dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia / Koen Kessels (conductor), Birmingham Hippodrome, 21.6.2013 (GR).

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Birmingham, Geoff Read

Good Performances in Updated Cav and Pag

29/06/201324/06/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo Pagliacci : Opera Holland Park / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Holland Park, London, 22.06.13 (RB)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags London, Robert Beattie

Award Winning Dance Productions at Sadlers Wells

29/06/201324/06/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Satie, Debussy/Sawhney, Turnage, Made at Sadler’s Wells, Afterlight (Part One), Faun, Undance: Sadler’s Wells, London, 22.6.2013. (JO’D)

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

Adamo’s “Gospel”: Half a Fine New Opera Better Than None

29/06/201323/06/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Mark Adamo, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (World Premiere): Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 19.6.2013 (HS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Harvey Steiman, Los Angeles

The Bittersweet “Little Mortal Jumps” Shares the Stage with the Ornate “Scheherazade” and “Azimuth”

29/06/201323/06/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Alonzo King, Scheherazade, Azimuth: Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Alejandro Cerrudo, Little Mortal Jumps: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 21.6.2013-23.6.2013  (JRo)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jane Rosenberg, Los Angeles

An Opportunity to Reassess Britten’s Coronation Opera

29/06/201322/06/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten, Gloriana: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Paul Daniel (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 20.6.2013 (MB)

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

Symbolic and Shadowless – Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten

29/06/201322/06/2013 by Stan

ArgentinaArgentina Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten: Soloists,Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Colón. Conductor:Ira Levin, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 14.6.2013. (JSJ)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jonathan Spencer Jones

Fine Production of Death in Venice by Gardner and ENO

14/04/201420/06/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten, Death in Venice: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Edward Gardner (conductor). Coliseum, London, 14.6.2013 (MB)

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