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Top ten operas 2022

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Mark Pullinger

This was the year that opera houses got back to something approaching “normality” post-pandemic. It’s easy to forget that at the start of 2022, Covid restrictions were still very much in place: visiting Vienna in January, one needed proof of … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Adam Smith, Adele Thomas, Ailyn Pérez, Alain Altinoglu, Alcina, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Asmik Grigorian, Bajazet, Claus Guth, Corinne Winters, Dialogues des Carmélites, Don Carlo, Don Carlos, Elena Stikhina, Elena Zilio, Eleonora Buratto, Elina Garanca, Emma Dante, Enea Scala, Gábor Bretz, Garsington Opera, Gerard Schneider, Gianni Schicchi, Glyndebourne, Il tabarro, Il trittico, Irish National Opera, Jack Furness, Jonathan Tetelman, Kristine Opolais, La Monnaie, La Voix humaine, Laurent Pelly, Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Lisette Oropesa, Ludovic Tézier, Martin Kusej, Matthew Polenzani, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Natalya Romaniw, Opera di Roma, Otello, Peter Kálmán, Peter Whelan, Pique Dame, Richard Jones, Rosetta Cucchi, Rossini Opera Festival, Royal Opera, Rusalka, Salome, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Suor Angelica, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro di San Carlo, Theater an der Wien, Tosca, Valery Gergiev | Leave a comment

A warm Viennese embrace as Wagner and Bruckner meet in Salzburg

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Mark Pullinger

Christian Thielemann/ Vienna Philharmonic Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg Festival, 26th August 2020 Wagner and Bruckner are a classic concert pairing. One was a huge devotee of the other – Bruckner even studded the first version of his Third Symphony (dedicated to … Continue reading →

Posted in Concert | Tagged Bruckner, Christian Thielemann, Elina Garanca, Salzburg Festival, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wagner | Leave a comment

Softly awakes my cold, cold heart: a tepid Samson et Dalila in Vienna

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila *** Wiener Staatsoper, 12th May 2018 Strip Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila of its biblical setting and what have you got left? An individual who succumbs to temptation and forfeits his life to kill hundreds of his religious enemies. … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Alexandra Liedtke, Carlos Álvarez, Elina Garanca, Marco Armiliato, Raimund Orfeo Voigt, Roberto Alagna, Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila, Sorin Coliban, Su Bühler, Wiener Staatsoper | Leave a comment

Gold-plated Don Carlos cast compensates for Warlikowski’s frosty Paris staging

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Don Carlos *** Opéra Bastille, 28th October 2017 Stéphane Lissner, director of the Opéra de Paris, had one of his greatest successes as general manager at the Théâtre du Châtelet with Luc Bondy’s staging of the original French version of … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Dmitry Belosselskiy, Don Carlos, Elina Garanca, Ildar Abdrazakov, Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Opéra national de Paris, Philippe Jordan, Sonya Yoncheva, Verdi | Leave a comment

Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Akhnaten, Akram Khan, Aleksandra Kurzak, Alice Sara Ott, Alvis Hermanis, Anastasia, Anna Netrebko, Attila, Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Barrie Kosky, BBCSO, Beethoven, Boris Godunov, Cavalleria rusticana, Cesar Corrales, Chabrier, Charles Dutoit, Così fan tutte, Daniel Barenboim, David Bösch, David Bruce, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Don Carlo, Dutch National Opera, Elina Garanca, Enescu, English National Ballet, English National Opera, Ermonela Jaho, Eugene Onegin, Florent Schmitt, Garsington Opera, Giselle, Glass, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Grigory Sokolov, Herbert Blomstedt, Il trovatore, Iolanta, Jaap van Zweden, Jan Philipp Gloger, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Karita Mattila, Katie Mitchell, L'Étoile, La canterina, La Fenice, La Scala, Le Concert d'Astrée, Le Corsaire, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Mariss Jansons, Matthew Bourne, Maurizio Pollini, Natalia Osipova, Nothing, Oedipe, Opera Holland Park, Opéra national de Paris, Opera North, Opera Rara, Orchestre de Paris, Pagliacci, Peter Hall, Philippe Cassard, Pique Dame, Puccini, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Farnes, Richard Jones, Roderick Williams, Rodula Gaitanou, Rossini, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera, Ruxandra Donose, Semiramide, Shostakovich, Sondra Radvanovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Stefan Herheim, Stuart MacRae, Tamara Rojo, Teatro alla Scala, The Devil Inside, The Golden Cockerel, The Nose, The Nutcracker, The Queen of Spades, The Red Shoes, The Rose and the Ring, The Sleeping Beauty, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, Verbier Festival, Verdi, Vladimir Stoyanov, Welsh National Opera, Written on Skin, Zenaida Yanowsky | Comments Off

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