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Best thing about Sadler’s Wells’s Pure Dance is Natalia Osipova the pure dance phenomenon

08/11/201925/10/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Natalia Osipova – Pure Dance: Natalia Osipova, Jonathan Goddard, David Hallberg and Jason Kittelberger. Sadler’s Wells, London, 23.10.2019. (JPr)

*Valse Triste* – Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg<br/>(c) Johan Persson

Diabelli Variations to cherish despite Paul Lewis’s fine Brahms and chipper Haydn

08/11/201923/10/2019 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Haydn, Brahms, Beethoven: Paul Lewis (piano), Royal Festival Hall, London, 16.10.2019. (CC)

Mastersingers and the Rehearsal Orchestra near the Wagnerian summit with Siegfried Act III

08/11/201922/10/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Siegfried Act III: Soloists, Rehearsal Orchestra / Anthony Legge (conductor), Henry Wood Hall, London, 20.10.2019. (JPr)

*Siegfried* Act III rehearsal at Henry Wood Hall (c) Mastersingers

Bridge Theatre’s gender-fluid forest frolics are all in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

04/11/201919/10/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom National Theatre Live – Bridge Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: recorded live at the Bridge Theatre and shown at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 17.10.2019. (JPr)

Bridge Theatre’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* (c) Manuel Harlan

Admirable musical performances but an effortful new Don Pasquale production at Covent Garden

04/11/201916/10/2019 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Evelino Pidò (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 14.10.2019. (CC)

Bryn Terfel (Don Pasquale) and Olga Peretyatko (Norina) (c) Clive Barda

Clemens Schuldt makes an animated London debut with the Philharmonia

04/11/201914/10/2019 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Schumann, Mendelssohn, Beethoven: Augustin Hadelich (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Clemens Schuldt (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 13.10.2019. (CS)

300th anniversary of the first performance of Handel’s Brockes Passion celebrated at Wigmore Hall

04/11/201912/10/2019 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Handel, Brockes Passion: Sandrine Piau (soprano), Stuart Jackson (tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Arcangelo and vocal consort / Jonathan Cohen (director, harpsichord). Wigmore Hall, London, 8.10.2019. (AK)

Handel’s *Brockes Passion* at Wigmore Hall (c) Arcangelo/Julian Forbes

Emma Rice’s #MeToo ENO Orpheus in the Underworld is bleached of all its inherent charm

04/11/201912/10/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Offenbach, Orpheus in the Underworld: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Sian Edwards (conductor). London Coliseum, 11.10.2019. (JPr)

ENO’s *Orpheus in the Underworld –* On Mount Olympus (c) Clive Barda

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