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Tag Archives: Michael Fabiano
Faust finds salvation thanks to jump-in soprano at The Royal Opera
Gounod: Faust Royal Opera, 11th April 2019 Mandy Fredrich’s plane from Hanover landed at London City Airport two hours before curtain up. The German soprano should have been heading to Bonn, preparing for a jump-in as Fifth Maid in Theater … Continue reading
Byron writes himself the lead role in Verdi’s Il corsaro in Valencia
Verdi: Il corsaro *** Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, 28th March 2018 By the time it premiered in Trieste in 1848, Giuseppe Verdi had rather fallen out of love with Il corsaro, his piratical opera based on Byron’s poem. Indeed, he … Continue reading
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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Carmen as therapy: Tcherniakov challenges clichés but is stumped in Aix
Bizet: Carmen ** Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 4th July 2017 Love may well be a rebellious bird, but that’s as nothing to maverick director Dmitri Tcherniakov. In his beloved Russian repertoire he displays genius – his recent Snow Maiden in Paris fully … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizet, Carmen, Christian Helmer, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Elena Zaitseva, Elsa Dreisig, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Gabrielle Philiponet, Guillaume Andrieux, Mathias Vidal, Michael Fabiano, Michael Todd Simpson, Orchestre de Paris, Pablo Heras-Casado, Pierre Doyen, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Virginie Verrez
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Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin returns to Covent Garden
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin **** The Royal Opera, 19th December 2015 The question I’d longed to ask Kasper Holten when his 2013 Royal Opera staging of Eugene Onegin opened was: if you’d had a younger soprano cast as Tatyana, would you … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Wyn-Rogers, David Shipley, Diana Montague, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Emily Ranford, Eugene Onegin, Ferruccio Furlanetto, James Platt, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Kasper Holten, Mia Stensgaard, Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Oksana Volkova, Royal Opera, Semyon Bychkov, Tchaikovsky
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