United States Lucy Guerin (with dancers from the premiere season), “Weather,” Lucy Guerin Inc., Royce Hall UCLA, Los Angeles, 4.10.13 (JRo)
Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Elemental Forces Drive Lucy Guerin’s “Weather”
Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Photo: Heidrun Lohr
Dancers Focus on Movement and the Space Around
Dessner/Peck, Lang/Millepied, Bryars/Forsythe: L. A. Dance Project, Sadler’s Wells, London, 3.10.2013 (JO’D)
Madrid Opera Season Opens with Disappointing Barbiere
Spain G. Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Tomas Hanus (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real 25 & 26.9.2013 (JMI)
Gripping Production of Greek Avoids Violence
United Kingdom Mark-Anthony Turnage, Greek: Music Theatre Wales: Michael Rafferty, conductor. Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 1.10.2013 (PCG)
Vladimir Jurowski Leads a Superb Peter Grimes in London
United Kingdom Britten, Peter Grimes: Soloists, London Voices, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 28.9.2013. (JPr)
Outstanding Performances from Cedar Lake Dancers
Martinez, Aznavour and Other Composers, Triple Bill: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, London, 27.9.2013 (JO’D)
ENO’s Fidelio Bemuses and Lacks Soul
United Kingdom Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Edward Gardner (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 25.9.2013. (JPr)
WNO’s None too “Shabby” Tosca Shocks as it Should.
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: (Revival Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2013 (GPu)