Tag Archives: Antonio Pappano

Getting the band back together: Pappano leads The Royal Opera’s return to action

The Royal Opera: Live in Concert Royal Opera House, 5th September 2020 It’s déja vu all over again! The last work staged at the Royal Opera House before lockdown was La traviata, so it was somehow fitting that this Live … Continue reading

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“Esultate!” Kunde’s Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Verdi: Otello Royal Opera, 9th December 2019 It’s good to have expectations confounded. For much of his career, American tenor Gregory Kunde specialised in bel canto repertoire, his light, flexible voice ideal for Rossini with easy top notes that also … Continue reading

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Outrageous fortune: stellar opening night for Forza del destino at Covent Garden

Verdi: La forza del destino Royal Opera House, 21st March 2019 Nights at the opera like this come along once in a blue moon. A Verdi score packed with great music, populated by big names, big voices and big personalities. … Continue reading

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Pappano and the LSO bring the Italians out of the opera pit

Pappano/ London Symphony Orchestra Barbican, 3rd March 2019 Verdi, Puccini and Ponchielli don’t exactly get out of the pit much, Italian composers famed almost exclusively for their operatic output. Sir Antonio Pappano doesn’t get out of the pit much either, … Continue reading

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Infernal Liszt: Alice Sara Ott, Antonio Pappano and a Faustian pact

Liszt: LSO/ Pappano **** Barbican, 26th November 2017 In all honesty, Goethe could have been referring to Liszt’s Faust Symphony which – at around seventy minutes – can feel like a very long work of art indeed. It formed the bloated climax … Continue reading

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