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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Cav & Pag: a nostalgia trip for Welsh National Opera
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci **** Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 29th May 2016 Welsh National Opera may have reached the ripe old age of seventy but it’s very much alive and kicking. It celebrates this milestone Janus-like, looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Marie Owens, Camilla Roberts, Carlo Rizzi, Cavalleria rusticana, David Kempster, Elijah Moshinsky, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Gyula Nagy, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Meeta Raval, Michael Yeargan, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Pagliacci, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, Welsh National Opera, WNO Chorus
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Rhythmic precision: Foxy Stravinsky from Salonen and the Philharmonia
Stravinsky: Renard, Mavra, Les Noces **** Philharmonia/Salonen, Royal Festival Hall, 26th May 2016 A wedding feast, a man in drag and an outwitted fox were unlikely accomplices in the second concert in the Philharmonia’s series Stravinsky: Myths and Rituals. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Artyom Melikhov, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Evelina Agabalaeva, Irina Brown, Les Noces, Margarita Ivanova, Mavra, Natalia Pavlova, Olga Bobrovskaya, Philharmonia, Philharmonia Voices, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Renard, Stravinsky
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Humour and humanity: McVicar’s Meistersinger touches the heart at Glyndebourne
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg **** Glyndebourne Festival, 21st May 2016 Eurovision last weekend, Nuremberg’s Got Talent this evening – it’s evidently song contest season. And what finer work to launch Glyndebourne Festival’s season, under the watchful eye of new General … Continue reading
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Tagged Alastair Miles, Amanda Majeski, Darren Jeffery, David McVicar, David Portillo, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gerald Finley, Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne Chorus, Hanna Hipp, Jochen Kupfer, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Güttler, Michael Schade, Vicki Mortimer, Wagner
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