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RCM’s singers brim with youthful vivacity and enthusiam in a fabulous Haydn Il mondo della luna

31/12/201927/11/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Haydn, Il mondo della luna: Soloists, Chorus, Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra / Michael Rosewell (conductor). Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, Kensington, London, 25.11.2019. (CC)

Anna Cooper (Lisetta) in Il mondo della luna
(c) Chris Christodoulou

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Tafelmusik live every note of Handel, Vivaldi and Locatelli at Milton Court

09/12/201925/11/2019 by Colin Clarke

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Love and Betrayal in the Baroque – Music by Handel, Vivaldi and Locatelli: Karina Gauvin (soprano), Tafelmusik / Elisa Citterio (violin/director). Milton Court, London, 24.11.2019. (CC)

Tafelmusik (c) Cylla von Tiedemann

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Dudamel and Los Angeles Phil make glorious music at the Barbican: can it change the world?

09/12/201924/11/2019 by Christopher Sallon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Andrew Norman and Bruckner: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Barbican Hall, London 20.11.2019. (CSa)

Gustavo Dudamel (c) Mark Allan/Barbican

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The Doric Quartet celebrate Britten at Wigmore Hall

09/12/201924/11/2019 by Claire Seymour

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten: Doric String Quartet (Alex Redington & Ying Xue [violins], Hélène Clément [viola], John Myerscough [cello]), Wigmore Hall, London, 22.11.2019. (CS)

Doric Quartet at Wigmore Hall. Photograph courtesy of Wigmore Hall.

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Dancers and design of Ballet du Rhin’s Les Beaux dormants are more forceful than overall structure

09/12/201924/11/2019 by John O'Dwyer

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Le Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin – Les Beaux dormants (The Sleeping Beauties):  Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 21.11.2019. (JO’D)

Ballet du Rhin’s Les Beaux dormants (c) Nis&For

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David McVicar’s Death in Venice has no new insights into Britten’s valedictory opera

09/12/201922/11/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Britten, Death in Venice: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Richard Farnes (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 21.11.2019. (JPr)

Mark Padmore (Aschenbach) and Gerald Finley (Elderly Fop) © Catherine Ashmore

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A gender-flipping Shrew from the RSC at the Barbican Theatre

09/12/201922/11/2019 by Claire Seymour

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew: Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London, 20.11.2019. (CS)

Claire Price as Petruchia and Joseph Arkley as Katherine (c) Ikin Yum Photography

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Dorrance Dance taps into Sadler’s Wells: a London tour to remember

09/12/201921/11/2019 by Christopher Sallon

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dorrance Dance – Jungle Blues, Three to One, Myelination:  Sadler’s Wells, London, 16.11.2019. (CSa)

Dorrance Dance’s Myelination (c) Lynn Pleasant

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