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Coventry

Bold, Imaginative Programming for CBSO’s Successful Nordic Night in Coventry

22/02/201914/02/2019 by AUTHOR

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rautavaara, Sibelius, Grieg: Klara Ek (soprano), CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Mirga Gražinytė -Tyla (conductor). Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 13.2.2019. (CP)

Mirga Gražinytė -Tyla (c) Vern Evans

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Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Clive Peacock, Coventry 1 Comment

Opera Warwick’s Entertaining La vie Parisienne Was Full of Ingenious Ideas

22/02/201910/02/2019 by Roderic Dunnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Offenbach, La vie Parisienne: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Warwick  /  Laurie Duncan (conductor). Warwick Arts Centre Theatre, Coventry, 7.1.2019. (RD)

Gabrielle (Naomi Awre) in Opera Warwick’s La vie Parisienne
(c) Gabrielė Stravinskaitė

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Racy and Effortless Student Production of Don Giovanni

22/01/201419/01/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni:  Opera Warwick / Benjamin Hamilton (conductor), Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, 16.1.2014 (RD)

Don Giovanni (Rory Carver) gets a grip on Zerlina (Giulia Boggiano). There's little Masetto (Nicolas Rivard, left) can do,
Don Giovanni (Rory Carver) gets a grip on Zerlina (Giulia Boggiano). There’s little Masetto (Nicolas Rivard, left) can do,

 

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Categories Opera & Ballet, Previously Published, UK Opera Tags Coventry, Roderic Dunnett

The Beatitudes in Coventry Cathedral – 50 Years Late!

11/04/201423/09/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Schoenberg, Beethoven, Bliss: Orla Boylan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Omar Ebrahim (narrator), Jonathan Scott (organ), Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus, BBC Philharmonic, Paul Daniel (conductor). Coventry Cathedral, 22.9. 2012 (JQ)

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An Impressive James MacMillan Première in Coventry Cathedral

27/06/201225/06/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Coventry Cathedral Golden Jubilee Concert. Coventry Cathedral, 23.6.2012 (JQ)

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War Requiem Fifty Years On: A Magnificent and Moving Occasion in Coventry

10/04/201431/05/2012 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Britten: War Requiem: Soloists, CBSO and Choruses, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Coventry Cathedral 30.5.2012 (JQ)

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