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Collected opera and ballet reviews
United Kingdom Offenbach: Fantasio – Soloists, Opera Rara Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 15.12.2013. (JPr)
United States Verdi, Falstaff: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / James Levine. (conductor). Met Live in HD (directed by Gary Halvorson) broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 14.12.2013. (JPr)
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker: Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Tom Seligman (conductor), viewed at Vue Piccadilly Cinema, London, 12.12.2013. (MB)
United Kingdom Adams, El Niño Rosemary Joshua (soprano); Kelley O’Connor (mezzo-soprano); Matthew Rose (bass); Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Steven Rickards (counter-tenors); Coloma St Cecilia Singers; Trinity Boys’ Choir; London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 14.12.2013 (CC)
Argentina Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Colón. Conductor: Ira Levin, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 6.12.2013. (JSJ)
Spain Golijov: Aadamar, Orchestra Principado de Asturias, Chorus Opera Oviedo, Corrado Rovaris (conductor), inTeatro Campoamor, Oviedo, 10.12.2013 (JMI)
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)
United Kingdom Philips, How the Whale Became (and other tales): Singers, Rafal Luc (accordion), George Barton (percussion), Dai Pritchard (tripling wind), Isla Mundell-Perkins (Cat/violin), Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 10.12.2013 (CC)
