United Kingdom Acosta Danza – Evolution: Sadler’s Wells, London, 19.11.2019. (JPr)
Charismatic Carlos Acosta and Acosta Danza have a lot to crow about at Sadler’s Wells
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A battle of love and death: Jurowski and LPO triumph in Wagner, Strauss and Mahler
United Kingdom Wagner, R. Strauss, Mahler: Sarah Wegener (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 13.11.2019. (CSa)
The Los Angeles Philharmonic opens its 2019 Barbican residency in great style
United Kingdom Ginastera, John Adams, Stravinsky: Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 18.11.2019. (CC)
Dancers from Kazakhstan impress at the London Coliseum in Chopiniana and Scheherazade
United Kingdom Abay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre – Chopiniana and Scheherazade: London Coliseum, 17.11.2019. (JO’D)
Joshua Bell and the ASMF at 60 celebrate in style across two great London evenings
United Kingdom Mozart, Mendelssohn, Sally Beamish and Beethoven: Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields / Joshua Bell (violin and director). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 12.11.2019. (CSa)
Tom Dale Company’s dancers become their own sound source for Step Sonic’s music
United Kingdom Tom Dale Company’s Step Sonic: The Place, London, 14.11.2019. (JO’D)
ENO’s production and performance of Glass’s Orphée has a vitality that almost throbs
United Kingdom Glass, Orphée (sung in an English translation by Netia Jones and Emma Jenkins): Soloists, Orchestra of English National Opera / Geoffrey Paterson (conductor). London Coliseum, 15.11.2019. (CC)
Affection and warmth from Tilson Thomas and the LSO
United Kingdom Tilson Thomas, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev: Nicola Benedetti (violin), London Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), 14.11.2019. (CS)
