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Monthly Archives: May 2016
Geneva Camerata: Balkan fire, tepid Baroque
Geneva Camerata/Greilsammer *** Kings Place, 19th May 2016 When classically-trained musicians break the shackles of the printed score and enter the realms of world music and improvisation, the results don’t always convince. Blinded by freedom, they can freeze. The good … Continue reading
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Tagged David Greilsammer, Geneva Camerata, Gilad Harel, JCF Bach, JS Bach, King's Place, Telemann, Vivaldi
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Flawed casting in Minghella’s widescreen Butterfly at ENO
Puccini: Madama Butterfly *** English National Opera, 16th May 2016 Anthony Minghella’s 2005 staging of Madam Butterfly remains a hit with ENO’s audience. A combination of Japanese lacquer and Hollywood gloss make for a stylish production, opulently costumed by Han … Continue reading
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Tagged Alun Rhys-Jenkins, Anthony Minghella, Chorus of English National Opera, David Butt Philip, English National Opera, George Von Bergen, Madama Butterfly, Matthew Durkan, Orchestra of English National Opera, Puccini, Rena Harms, Richard Armstrong, Samantha Price, Stephanie Windsor-Lewis
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Reflections on fallen men: Mark Padmore at Wigmore Hall
Schumann, Wigglesworth, Janáček: Mark Padmore *** Wigmore Hall, 12th May 2016 There isn’t an ideal English title translation for Verdi’s La traviata. Often given asThe Fallen Woman, it can be more accurately translated as “the woman who has gone astray”. Even … Continue reading
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Tagged Janáček, Mark Padmore, Ryan Wigglesworth, Schumann, Victoria Simmonds
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Return to the crime scene: fresh blood improves Royal Opera’s Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor **** Royal Opera, 11th May 2016 Double casts are a mixed blessing. When they play side by side, there’s a temptation to indulge in ‘fantasy casting’, mixing and matching your ideal team from those available. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandra Kurzak, Artur Ruciński, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren, David Junghoon Kim, Donizetti, Katie Mitchell, Lucia di Lammermoor, Matthew Rose, Rachael Lloyd, Stephen Costello, Vicki Mortimer
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Winds of Change: a new bassoon concerto ushered in by the OAE
Mozart, Gordon/ OAE *** St John’s Smith Square, 7th May 2016 It’s likely that Mozart never actually heard his Clarinet Concerto performed. His friend Anton Stadler gave the première in Prague in October 1791, less than two months before the … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Gordon, Mozart, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Peter Whelan, St Johns Smith Square
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