Jim Pritchard

Smetana’s Dalibor Fails to Raise the Roof

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Smetana, Dalibor: Soloists, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 2.5.2015. (JPr)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Bedrich Smetana's opera Dalibor with Jiri Belohlavek conducting at the Barbican Hall (pic shows L-R: Alzbeta Polackova and Ales Voracek) on Saturday, 2 May, 2015. Photo by Mark Allan/BBC
The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Bedrich Smetana’s opera Dalibor with Jiri Belohlavek conducting at the Barbican Hall (pic shows L-R: Alzbeta Polackova and Ales Voracek) on Saturday, 2 May, 2015.
Photo by Mark Allan/BBC

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Thoughtful Stagings of Music by Georg Haas at the Royal Opera 

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom  ATTHIS (a staging of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Second String Quartet and the song cycle ATTHIS): Claire Booth (soprano), Laure Bachelot and Rachel Maybank (dancers), London Sinfonietta, Pierre-André Valade (conductor). Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 24.4.2015 (JPr)

ATTHIS Photo Credit Bill Cooper
Claire Booth in ATTHIS Photo Credit Bill Cooper ROH

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