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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Hamburg’s Verdi Trilogy: I Due Foscari, Last is Best

21/11/201320/11/2013 by Stan

Verdi: I Due Foscari, Philarmoniker Hamburg, Staatsoper Chorus, Simone Young (conductor), Staatsoper Hamburg 16.11.2013 (JMI)

 

Foscari
Verdi’s I Due Foscari- Production of the Hamburg Opera

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Mixed Bag of a Mastersingers

21/11/201320/11/2013 by Stan

SwitzerlandSwitzerland   Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg   Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, conducted by Sebastian Weigle, Zurich Opera, Zurich. 10.11.2013. (JR)Meistersinger_Judith Schlosser_019 (1)

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La Battaglia di Legnano: A True Verdi Rarity

21/11/201319/11/2013 by Stan

Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano, Philarmoniker Hamburg, Chor Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor), Staatsoper Hamburg 15.11.2013 (JMI).

Legnano
La Battaglia di Legnano
Hamburg Opera

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Imagination and Innovation in Stunning Salome

21/11/201319/11/2013 by Stan

R. Strauss, Salome: Soloists, Portland Opera, George Manahan (conductor), Stephen Lawless (director), Benoit Dugardyn (set), Ingeborg Bernerth (costumes), Mark McCullough (lighting), Matthew Ferraro (choreographer/Assistant Director), Keller Auditorium, Portland, Oregon, 9.11.2013 (BJ)

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Met’s Die Frau, Without a Shadow of a Doubt, a Great Production

25/01/201418/11/2013 by Stan

R. Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Vladamir Jurowski (conductor), Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, 12.11.2013 (SSM)

Die Frau Ohne Schatten (photo
Die Frau Ohne Schatten (photo

 

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Company Chameleon Uses Dance as Agent for Social Change

23/11/201418/11/2013 by John O'Dwyer

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Matthias, Prior, Marin: Eden; Pictures We Make, Company Chameleon, Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), London, 15.11.2013 (JO’D)

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Rare Verdi Trilogy in Hamburg

21/11/201317/11/2013 by Stan

GermanyGermany  Verdi: I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, Philarmoniker Hamburg, Chor Staatsoper Hamburg, Simone Young (conductor), Staatsoper Hamburg, 13.11.2013 (JMI).

 

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Bring in the Nymphs

19/11/201317/11/2013 by Stan

GermanyGermany R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Philarmoniker Hamburg, Axel Kober (conductor), Staatsoper Hamburg, 14.11.2013 (JMI).

 

ariadne
Hamburg Opera-Ariadne

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