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Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Duato’s Ballet Pays Tribute to Bach and His Music

08/04/201307/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bach: Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness: Dancers and Orchestra of Mikhailovsky Ballet / Mikhail Tatarnikov (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 5.4.2013  (MMB)

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Categories Ballet and Dance Reviews, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags London, Margarida Mota-Bull

Royal Ballet Conjures Up the Mysterious Orient

08/04/201306/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Minkus (orch. Lanchbery) , La Bayadère: Dancers and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet / Valeriy Ovsyanikov (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 5.4.2013. (JOD)

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

Mikhailovsky Ballet Performs Important ‘Museum Piece’

08/04/201305/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Alexander Krein, Laurencia: Dancers and Orchestra of the Mikhailovsky Ballet / Valery Ovsyanikov (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 2.4.2013. (JPr)

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

Chorus Inject Colour into Covent Garden’s Monochrome Nabucco

08/01/202402/04/2013 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Verdi, Nabucco: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). .Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 30.3.2013 (CC)

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

Fun, Frolics and Fireworks from Mikhailovsky Ballet

08/04/201301/04/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Ludwig Minkus, Don Quixote: Dancers and Orchestra of The Mikhailovsky Ballet / Pavel Bubelnikov (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 30.3.2013. (JPr)

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

Stark but Musically Convincing Parsifal in Munich

10/03/202301/04/2013 by Stan

GermanyGermany Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Kent Nagano. National Theatre, Munich 28.3.2013. (JPr)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Jim Pritchard, Munich

Memorable Cast for Previn’s “Streetcar”

08/04/201330/03/2013 by Stan

United StatesUnited States André Previn, A Streetcar Named Desire: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Evan Rogister (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 26.3.2013 (JLZ)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Chicago, James L. Zychowicz

Madama Butterfly Sells Out Barcelona’s Liceu

10/03/202329/03/2013 by Stan

 SpainSpain Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Liceu’s Orchestra and Chorus, José Miguel Pérez Sierra (conductor). Barcelona’s Liceu, 26 and 27.3.2013. (JMI)

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Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Barcelona, JM Irurzun
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