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Category Archives: Opera
Glyndebourne’s La traviata on tour: or What the Maid Saw
Verdi: La traviata ** Glyndebourne on Tour, Woking, 1st November 2014 Verdi never met Marie Duplessis, for she died five months before the composer’s first visit to Paris, but he was deeply touched by her fate, to be related through … Continue reading
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Tagged David Afkham, Eddie Wade, Emanuele D’Aguanno, Evez Abdulla, Glyndebourne, La traviata, Natasha Jouhl, Tom Cairns, Verdi
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Jette Parker Young Artists step up to deliver a vivacious Rossini Silken Ladder
Rossini: La scala di seta **** Linbury Studio, 23rd October 2014 Rare – and not so rare – Rossini is rampant this autumn. While his opera seriaare celebrated by Welsh National Opera with new productions of Guillaume Tell and Mosè in Egitto, the Royal … Continue reading
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Tagged Anush Hovhannisyan, Greg Eldridge, James Platt, Jonathan Santagada, La scala di seta, Lauren Fagan, Linbury Studio, Luis Gomes, Rossini, Royal Opera, Samuel Johnson, Yuriy Yurchuk
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Broad slapstick eclipses Haydn’s Life on the Moon
Haydn: Life on the Moon ** English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire, 17th October 2014 Few composers deal in genial wit better than Joseph Haydn, so I was baffled that his opera buffa Il mondo della luna left me so grumpy … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Slater, Cal McCrystal, Christopher Bucknall, Christopher Turner, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire, Haydn, Il mondo della luna, Jane Harrington, Martha Jones, Ronan Busfield, takis
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The Macbeths triumph at The Met: Netrebko and Lučić reign in New York
Verdi: Macbeth ***** Metropolitan Opera, 24th September 2014 On a triumphant opening night of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera, a smattering of boos resounded. The intended recipient? Adrian Noble, returning to direct this second revival of his 2007 staging. The reason? … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Noble, Anna Netrebko, Fabio Luisi, Joseph Calleja, Macbeth, Metropolitan Opera, René Pape, Verdi, Željko Lučić
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