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

Musical Spoof on TV Talent Shows Pleases the Crowd

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Harry Hill and Steve Brown, I Can’t Sing!:I Can’t Sing! Company, Phil Bateman (music director). London Palladium, London, 27.3.2014. (JPr)

L-R Simon Lipkin (Barlow), Cynthia Erivo (Chenice) and Alan Morrissey (Max) in I Can't Sing! at the London Palldium Photographe (1)-500
L-R Simon Lipkin (Barlow), Cynthia Erivo (Chenice) and Alan Morrissey (Max) in I Can’t Sing! at the London Palldium Photograph Tristam Kenton

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Royal Ballet Attempts to Recreate its First Post-War Production

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky,The Sleeping Beauty: Soloists, Students of The Royal Ballet School, Corps de Ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Valery Ovsyanikov (conductor). Live cinema relay (introduced by Darcey Bussell) broadcast to the Vue Cinema, Piccadilly, London. 19.3.2014. (JPr)

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY by Tchaikovsky, , Music – Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Choreography – Marius Petipa, Design – Oliver Messel, Lighting – Mark Jonathan, The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera House, London, UK, 2011, Credit: Johan Persson /
The Sleeping Beauty (c) Johan Persson/ROH

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Refined Playing Keeps Werther’s Emotions in Check Until Climax

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United StatesUnited States  Massenet, Werther (new production by Sir Richard Eyre and directed for live cinema by Gary Halvorson): soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conducted by Alain Altinoglu. Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 15.3.2014. (JPr)

Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in the Metropolitan Opera production of Massenet’s “Werther.” Photo: Ken Howard
Jonas Kaufmann and Sophie Koch in the Met’s production of Werther
(c) Ken Howard

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Fresh and Finely-Wrought Production of a Broadway Classic

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United StatesUnited States  Claude-Michel Schonberg/Alain Boublil, Les Misérables: Soloists, Aubrey Berg (director), Stephen Goers (musical director), Diane Lala (choreography), Mark Halpin (scene designer), Dean Mogle (costume designer), David LaRose (lighting designer), Jeremy J. Lee (sound designer), University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music, Patricia Corbett Theater. Cincinnati, Ohio. 28.2.2014 (RDA).

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