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Tag Archives: Mariusz Kwiecien
No moonlight, no magic: Richard Jones directs a vanilla Bohème for the Royal Opera
Puccini: La bohème *** The Royal Opera, 11th September 2017 New productions of La bohème don’t come around that often at the Royal Opera. John Copley’s venerable staging lasted for 43 years and the one before that – Peter Brook … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonio Pappano, Florian Sempey, La bohème, Luca Tittoto, Mariusz Kwiecien, Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Richard Jones, Royal Opera, Simona Mihai
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Netrebko’s Tatyana the main draw in new Met Opera Onegin
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin Metropolitan Opera/Valery Gergiev (DG) Anna Netrebko’s Tatyana has been a long time coming. Ever since I first saw her, with her elfin, Audrey Hepburn looks, perched on a balcony as Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, she … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Netrebko, DG, Eugene Onegin, IRR, Mariusz Kwiecien, Metropolitan Opera, Piotr Beczała, Tchaikovsky, Valery Gergiev
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No brimstone as Kasper Holten turns Don Giovanni on its head
Mozart: Don Giovanni **** The Royal Opera, 12th February 2014 Jean-Paul Sartre closes No Exit with the line, “Hell is other people” (“L’enfer, c’est les autres”), yet in Kasper Holten’s new production of Don Giovanni, Hell is quite the opposite … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Esposito, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Anja Vang Kragh, Antonio Poli, Dawid Kimberg, Don Giovanni, Elizabeth Watts, Es Devlin, Kasper Holten, Luke Hall, Malin Byström, Mariusz Kwiecien, Mozart, Nicola Luisotti, Paul Wingfield, Véronqiue Gens
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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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