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Category Archives: Opera
ENO’s new Magic Flute mixes high-tech with simple stagecraft
Mozart: The Magic Flute **** English National Opera, 7th November 2013 For all the risk-taking in the operatic world, productions which are guaranteed bums-on-seats bankers are like Nibelung gold. To scrap not one but two such productions is a brave … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Johnson, Brian Galliford, Clare Presland, Complicite, Cornelia Götz, Devon Guthrie, Die Zauberflöte, Eleanor Dennis, English National Opera, Finn Ross, Gareth Fry, Gergely Madaras, James Creswell, Mary Bevan, Michael Levine, Roland Wood, Rosie Aldridge, Simon McBurney, Steven Page
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Netrebko’s Tatyana is worth the wait!
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin **** Metropolitan Opera, 5th October 2013 I’ve waited thirteen impatient years for this. Covent Garden, July 2000: the Mariinsky Opera (or the Kirov Opera as it was then titled) rolled into town for a Russian season of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexei Tanovitski, Anna Netrebko, Deborah Warner, Elena Zaremba, Eugene Onegin, Fiona Shaw, John Graham-Hall, Larissa Diadkova, Mariusz Kwiecien, Metropolitan Opera, Oksana Volkova, Piotr Beczała, Tchaikovsky, Valery Gergiev
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HMS Indomitable docks at Glyndebourne once more
Britten: Billy Budd ***** Glyndebourne, 17th August 2013 After Friday evening’s Prom performance of The Midsummer Marriage, I followed hot on the heels of conductor Andrew Davis to the Sussex Downs, where the former Glyndebourne Music Director is at the … Continue reading