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Tag Archives: Oksana Volkova
Jansons and the Vienna Phil trump Neuenfels’ tame Pique Dame in Salzburg
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame *** Salzburg Festival, 10th August 2018 Tomsky taunts the obsessive gambler in Hermann with his Ballad of the Three Cards. The Countess recounts singing for the king in Versailles. But it is arguably the orchestra itself which … Continue reading
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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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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