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Tag Archives: Matthew Polenzani
Top ten operas 2022
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 →
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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
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Martin Kušej’s Idomeneo cast as gripping political power struggle
Mozart: Idomeneo **** Royal Opera, 3rd November 2014 “Here be dragons!” warned seafaring maps of yore, denoting uncharted territories. Martin Kušej, undertaking his first Royal Opera exploration, excised the sea monster from his vision of Mozart’s Idomeneo. Well, there was a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Franco Fagioli, Graeme Broadbent, Idomeneo, Krystian Adam, Malin Byström, Marc Minkowski, Martin Kusej, Matthew Polenzani, Mozart, Royal Opera, Sophie Bevan, Stanislas de Barbeyrac
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