Jim Pritchard

English National Ballet’s Nutcracker Delights is a true Christmas cracker

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom English National Ballet’s Nutcracker Delights: Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor). Filmed at the London Coliseum on 18 & 19.12.2020 and now available on YouTube. (JPr)

Erina Takahashi (Sugar Plum Fairy) and Joseph Caley (Prince) (c) ASH

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Benedetti and the Philharmonia prove Beethoven’s music is a force to bring us together whatever the circumstances

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Benedetti Plays Beethoven: Nicola Benedetti (violin), Philharmonia / Pekka Kuusisto (conductor). Livestreamed from London’s Royal Festival Hall, 30.11.2020. (JPr)

Nicola Benedetti (violin), Pekka Kuusisto (conductor) & Philharmonia

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The Royal Opera Christmas Concert is a distinctly odd lockdown event

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Royal Opera Christmas Concert: Soloists, Roderick Williams (presenter / baritone), Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Livestreamed (for information click here) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 18.12.2020. (JPr)

The Royal Opera Christmas Concert – La bohème Act II extract

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Roberto Alagna and Vida Miknevičiūtė make their role debuts in Calixto Bieito’s unromantic trial by jury Berlin Lohengrin

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GermanyGermany Wagner, Lohengrin: Soloists, Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin / Matthias Pintscher (conductor). 13.12.2020 performance at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, streamed (directed for TV by Andreas Morell) and available on ARTE Concert until 15.1.2020 (click here). (JPr)

Lohengrin Act III (c) Monika Rittershaus

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For the Met, Bryn Terfel and friends at Brecon Cathedral bring us a holiday welcome from the hillsides

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Met Stars Live in Concert – Sir Bryn Terfel in Wales: Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Trystan Llyr Griffiths (tenor), Hannah Stone (harp), Jeff Howard (piano), Calan (folk group), Elen Hydref and Dylan Wyn Rowlands (additional harps). Livestreamed (directed by Gary Halvorson) from Brecon Cathedral, Wales, 12.12.2020. (JPr)

Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Hannah Stone (harp) & Jeff Howard (piano)

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Paris’s lockdown La Bayadère proves a fitting tribute to Nureyev’s final choreographic testament

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FranceFrance Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère: Dancers of the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris, Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris / Philippe Hui (conductor). Livestream (available for only seven day click here) from the Opéra Bastille, Paris, 13.12.2020. (JPr)

Dorothée Gilbert (Nikiya) and Germain Louvet (Solor)

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