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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Seattle Young Artists Program Presents Donizetti’s Don Pasquale

11/04/201204/04/2012 by Stan

United StatesUnited States Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, soloists, Seattle Opera Young Artists Program Orchestra, Brian Garman (conductor), Peter Kazaras (director), Meany Hall, Seattle, 31.3.2012 (BJ)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Bernard Jacobson, Seattle

Thaïs, a Valencian Athanaël Festival

11/04/201203/04/2012 by Jens F. Laurson

SpainSpain Jules Massenet, Thaïs: Soloists, Orchestra Comunitat Valenciana, Chorus Generalitat Valenciana, Patrick Fournillier (conductor), Valencia’s Palau de Les Arts, 31.3.2012 (JMI)

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Categories International Opera, Previously Published Tags JM Irurzun, Valencia

Valencia, Tosca Da Capo

11/04/201203/04/2012 by Jens F. Laurson

SpainSpain G. Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Orchestra Comunitat Valenciana, Chorus Generalitat Valenciana, Omer Meir Wellber (conductor), Valencia’s Palau de Les Arts, 1.4.2012 (JMI)

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Categories International Opera, Previously Published Tags JM Irurzun, Valencia

Mercadante: How Many Figaros are Enough?

11/04/201203/04/2012 by Jens F. Laurson

SpainSpain Saverio Mercadante, I Due Figaro: Soloists, Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Vienna Philharmonia Chorus, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real, 30.3.2012 (JMI)

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Categories International Opera, Previously Published Tags JM Irurzun, Madrid

Trifling with Die Zauberflöte

10/03/202302/04/2012 by Stan

ItalyItaly  Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, 31.3.2012 (JB)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jack Buckley, Rome

Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House

05/02/201431/03/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Royal Opera / John Eliot Gardiner (conductor),  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 30.3.2012. (JPr)

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Jim Pritchard, London

An Almost Perfect Evening of Dance at the English National Ballet

04/04/201231/03/2012 by Stan

 

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Stravinsky, Debussy, Lalo, Apollo, Jeux, Le Train bleu, Suite en blanc: Dancers and Orchestra of the English National Ballet, conducted by Gavin Sutherland, London Coliseum,  28.3.12. (JPr)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Concert Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jim Pritchard, London

Mascagni Double Bill Opens Juventus Lyrica’s 2012 Season

04/04/201230/03/2012 by Stan

ArgentinaArgentina  Mascagni, L’amico Fritz, Cavalleria Rusticana: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Juventus Lyrica, Antonio Maria Russo (conductor), Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 23.3.2012. (JSJ)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jonathan Spencer Jones
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