Glyndebourne’s Low-key Traviata Fails to Convince

United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Glyndebourne Festival 2014 – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Filmed ‘live’ at the Glyndebourne Theatre and seen at the Barbican Cinema, London, 10.8.2014. (JPr)

 

Glyndebourne’s La traviata (c) Richard Hubert Smith

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Welcome Return to London for Mariinsky Ballet

 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Apollo & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (choreography by George Balanchine): Dancers of Marriinsky Ballet, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, National Youth Choirs GB Chamber Choir,  Kiandra Howarth (soprano) and Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano) / Gavriel Heine (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 8.8.2014. (JPr)

A Midsummer Nights Dream Viktoria Tereshkina Photo Natasha Razina Timur Askero
A Midsummer Nights Dream Viktoria Tereshkina Photo Natasha Razina Timur Askero

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Bayreuth Opens Up Wagner to a Younger Audience

GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2014 (4) – Richard Wagner für Kinder, Lohengrin: Soloists, Bayreuther Kinder- und Spatzenchor an der Hochschule für evang. Kirchenmusik, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt an der Oder / Boris Schäfer (conductor), Probebühne IV auf der Parkseite des Festspielgeländes, Bayreuth, 31.7.2014. (JPr)

LohengrinKinder Photo Credit Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuth Festival
LohengrinKinder
Photo Credit Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuth Festival

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