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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Handel’s Radamisto: Not Your Ordinary Student Production

25/01/201424/11/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Handel, Radamisto: Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415, Julian Wachner (conductor), Peter J. Sharp Theater, Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, New York, 20.11.2013 (SSM)

 

John Holiday as Radamisto and Virginie Verrez as Zenobia Photo credit: Nan Melville
John Holiday as Radamisto and Virginie Verrez as Zenobia
Photo credit: Nan Melville

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags New York, Stan Metzger Leave a comment

Budapest’s Erkel Theatre Reopens with a Double Bill

08/12/201324/11/2013 by Stan

HungaryHungary Vajda, Mario and the Musician; Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle: Hungarian State Opera, Gregory Vajda (conductor), Erkel Theatre, Budapest, 14.11.2013

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Budapest, Roderic Dunnett Leave a comment

Inspired Choral Singing in Glass’s Indian Opera

08/12/201323/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glass, Satyagraha (sung in Saskrit):  Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), London Coliseum, 20.11.2013 (CC)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Colin Clarke, London Leave a comment

Rossini with Artifice Provokes Smiles, Laughs

17/02/201423/11/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Rossini, The Barber of Seville: Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, Giuseppe Finzi (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 14.11.2013 and 19.11.2013 (HS)

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Categories Concert Reviews, International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Harvey Steiman, San Francisco Leave a comment

The Turn of the Screw

08/12/201322/11/2013 by Stan

  Britten, The Turn of the Screw.  Soloists (prime parte) of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna.  Conductor, Jonathan Webb  Teatro Comunale, Bologna.  19.11.2013 (JB)

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Photo of Miles (Sebastian Davies), Courtesy of Teatro Communale di Bologna

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Bologna, Jack Buckley Leave a comment

Sir Thomas Directs a Convincing Don Giovanni

08/12/201322/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus of Don Giovanni, Orchestra of Scottish Opera / SperanzaScappucci (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 19.11.2013 (SRT)

 

5. Scottish Opera's Don Giovanni, 2013. Directed by Sir Thomas Allen, Designed by Simon Higlett. Credit James Glossop.
5. Scottish Opera’s Don Giovanni, 2013. Directed by Sir Thomas Allen, Designed by Simon Higlett. Credit James Glossop.

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Edinburgh, Simon Thompson Leave a comment

The Extraordinary Men of Stuttgart Ballet

13/05/201421/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom, Various Composers, Made in Germany: Stuttgart Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, London, 18.11.2013 (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags John O'Dwyer, London 2 Comments

Small Scale is Beautiful in Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Programme

13/05/201420/11/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Various Composers, Particle Velocity: Phoenix Dance Theatre, Royal Opera House (Linbury Studio Theatre), London, 19.11.2013 (JO’D)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Concert Reviews, Opera & Ballet Tags John O'Dwyer, London Leave a comment
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