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Tag Archives: Gergely Madaras
Gluck’s Don Juan fails to seduce in the AAM’s Grand Tour
Academy of Ancient Music *** Milton Court, 25th November 2014 Gluck’s Don Juan was clearly an inspiration to Mozart when composing his operatic version of the tale, Don Giovanni. The anti-hero’s descent into hell even shares the same dark D minor key as … Continue reading
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Tagged Academy of Ancient Music, Gergely Madaras, Gluck, Masumi Nagasawa, Mozart, Rachel Brown
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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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