Tag Archives: Elena Zaremba

Play your cards right: La fanciulla del West and Pique Dame at Opéra de Lyon

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Mark Pullinger

Puccini: La fanciulla del West Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame Opéra de Lyon, 15th-16th March 2024 For its spring festival, Opéra de Lyon gambled on a pair of new productions featuring works that both hinge on crucial card games. If Tatjana Gürbaca’s … Continue reading →

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Netrebko in majestic form as Tatyana in Paris Onegin

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin *** Opéra de Paris, Bastille, 16th May 2017 The operatic merry-go-round is a strange beast. In April, Peter Mattei and Anna Netrebko were starring together in Deborah Warner’s production of Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera, the final … Continue reading →

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Tcherniakov triumphs with Iolanta, but hobbles Nutcracker at the Garnier

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta/ The Nutcracker *** Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier, 11th March 2016 At the 1892 première of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and The Nutcracker, it was the opera which scored the bigger hit with the critics, even though it’s the ballet which … Continue reading →

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Netrebko’s Tatyana is worth the wait!

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Mark Pullinger

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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