English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 4.3.2013. (JPr)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Demarre McGill Wows in Middle Mozart
United Kingdom Mozart: Demarre McGill (flute), Seattle Symphony, Douglas Boyd (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 28.2.2013 (BJ)
Munich’s Godunov: A Bullet to the Head
Germany M. Musorgsky, Boris Godunov: Soloists, Bavarian State Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor), Bavarian State Orchestra, 20.2.2012 (JFL)
Pallid New Opera Based on The Secret Garden
United States Nolan Gasser and Carey Harrison, The Secret Garden: Soloists and members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, Calif. 2.3.2013 (HS)
Strong Spiritual Element in Met’s Post-Apocalyptic Parsifal
United States Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Daniele Gatti (conductor). Directed for live cinema by Barbara Willis Sweete and broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to the Barbican Cinema, London, 2.3.2013. (JPr)
Fine Orchestral Playing in Tosca Revival
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Maurizio Benini (conductor., Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 2.3.2012 (CC)
Moral Themes and Attractive Performances in WNO’s Vixen
United Kingdom Janáĉek, The Cunning Little Vixen: (Revival premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Lothar Koenigs, conductor, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.2.2013 (GPu)
Hamburg’s New Traviata Goes To The Heart
Germany Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera, Patrick Lange (conductor). Hamburg State Opera 23.3.2013 (GF)