Sweden En julsaga (A Christmas Carol): Soloists, Children’s Chorus and Gothenburg Chorus and Orchestra / Josef Rhedin (conductor). Gothenburg Opera main stage, 15.12.2023. (NS)
Gothenburg Opera’s A Christmas Carol is a festive family treat
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
The Royal Ballet’s cosily familiar The Nutcracker returns to welcome in Christmas yet again
United Kingdom Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, The Schola Cantorum of The London Oratory School, London Oratory Junior Choir (director: Charles Cole), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Andrew Litton (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 12.12.2023 and seen at Everyman Chelmsford, Essex, 18.12.2023. (JPr)
Christmas is All Around: Love Actually Live in Beverly Hills
United States Love Actually Live (after the movie by Richard Curtis, adapted by Anderson Davis): The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 17.12.2023. (JRo)
Cliffs Pavilion sees Joe Pasquale at his childlike comic best in Peter Pan as a traditional panto
United Kingdom Peter Pan (adapted by Alan McHugh with additional material by Joe Pasquale and Matt Slack): Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 12.12.2023. (JPr)
A very well sung new Turandot in Naples is not the car crash it might appear to be
Italy Puccini, Turandot: Children’s Chorus (director: Stefania Rinaldi), Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo / Dan Ettinger (conductor). Livestreamed on medici.tv from Teatro di San Carlo, Naples. 9.12.2023. (JPr)
The Metropolitan Opera’s Florencia en el Amazonas fails to float my boat
United States Daniel Catán, Florencia en el Amazonas: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Transmitted live (directed by Gary Halvorson) and seen at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 9.12.2023. (JPr)
Dancing in a Winter Wonderland: Aljaž and Janette return to celebrate love, kindness, family and Christmas
United Kingdom Aljaž and Janette – Dancing in a Winter Wonderland: Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara (co-creators and choreography) and Company (Miranda Wilford, Adrian Hansel [featured singers], Robbie Kmetoni, Faye Huddleston [lead partners], Kiera Brunton, Jack Dargen, Kate Kenrick, George Michaelides, Tony Scott-Obene, Rose Wild [ensemble]), Gareth Walker (show director and choreographer), Coldwell (associate director and assistant chorographer), Matt Howes (musical director), Doug FF Cairns (set and lighting designer), Ryan Howard (screen content). Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, 1.12.2023. (JPr)
So much song, dance and laughter from consummate showman Anton Du Beke and friends
United Kingdom An Evening with Anton Du Beke and Friends: Anton Du Beke, Lance Ellington (vocalist), dancers and musicians. Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 20.11.2023. (JPr)
