United Kingdom GIOVANNI – The Last Dance: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 22.3.2025. (JPr)
For now, ‘Thank you!’ Giovanni for the memories and your feelgood The Last Dance
Broadcasts, Musicals, & Others
Reviews and articles of some events that are not Concerts, Opera, or Dance, and others that have been streamed, shown in the cinema or on TV
Muntagirov and Kaneko are a memorable Romeo and Juliet in the MacMillan ballet’s 60th anniversary
United Kingdom Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels (conductor), Broadcast live (directed by Ross MacGibbon from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 20.3.2025. (JPr)
Seven stars align for an engrossing Metropolitan Opera Fidelio revival
United States The Met: Live in HD – Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Gary Halvorson) from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 15.3.2025. (JPr)
Amy & Carlos REBORN is a celebratory, heartwarming, dance extravaganza
United Kingdom Amy & Carlos REBORN: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 11.3.2025. (JPr)
Janette Manrara is astounding in a Chicago still with ‘Razzle Dazzle’ even if it is now rather Fosse-ilsed
United Kingdom Kander & Ebb’s Chicago the Musical: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 3.3.2025. (JPr)
(P)review of the filmed version of the NT’s The Importance of Being Earnest coming soon to a cinema near you
National Theatre Live – Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: Filmed (directed by Matthew Amos) in London’s Lyttleton Theatre. (JPr)
Michael Volle is unsurpassable again as Wotan in David McVicar’s mostly traditional La Scala Die Walküre
Italy Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra / Simone Young (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Ella Gallieni) from La Scala, Milan, 12.2.2025 and available on demand until 19.2.2025. (JPr)
Highly entertaining Catch me if you can in Bremerhaven
Germany McNally, Whitman and Shaiman, Catch me if you can: Soloists, Chorus, and Extras of Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven / Davide Perniceni (conductor). Stadttheater Bremerhaven, 1.2.2025. (DM-D)
