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Play your cards right: La fanciulla del West and Pique Dame at Opéra de Lyon

Posted on March 18, 2024 by Mark Pullinger

Puccini: La fanciulla del West Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame Opéra de Lyon, 15th-16th March 2024 For its spring festival, Opéra de Lyon gambled on a pair of new productions featuring works that both hinge on crucial card games. If Tatjana Gürbaca’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Chiara Isotton, Claudio Sgura, Daniele Rustioni, Dmitry Golovnin, Elena Guseva, Elena Zaremba, La fanciulla del West, Opéra de Lyon, Pique Dame, Puccini, Riccardo Massi, Tatjana Gürbaca, Tchaikovsky, Timofey Kulyabin | Leave a comment

Top ten operas 2022

Posted on December 26, 2022 by Mark Pullinger

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 →

Posted in Opera | 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 | Leave a comment

Jansons and the Vienna Phil trump Neuenfels’ tame Pique Dame in Salzburg

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

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 →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Brandon Jovanovich, Christian Schmidt, Evgenia Muraveva, Hanna Schwarz, Hans Neuenfels, Igor Golovatenko, Mariss Jansons, Oksana Volkova, Pique Dame, Reinhard von der Thannen, Salzburg Festival, Tchaikovsky, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladislav Sulimsky | Leave a comment

Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

Posted in Comment | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Akhnaten, Akram Khan, Aleksandra Kurzak, Alice Sara Ott, Alvis Hermanis, Anastasia, Anna Netrebko, Attila, Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, Barrie Kosky, BBCSO, Beethoven, Boris Godunov, Cavalleria rusticana, Cesar Corrales, Chabrier, Charles Dutoit, Così fan tutte, Daniel Barenboim, David Bösch, David Bruce, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Don Carlo, Dutch National Opera, Elina Garanca, Enescu, English National Ballet, English National Opera, Ermonela Jaho, Eugene Onegin, Florent Schmitt, Garsington Opera, Giselle, Glass, Glyndebourne, Grange Park Opera, Grigory Sokolov, Herbert Blomstedt, Il trovatore, Iolanta, Jaap van Zweden, Jan Philipp Gloger, Jean-Christophe Maillot, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Karita Mattila, Katie Mitchell, L'Étoile, La canterina, La Fenice, La Scala, Le Concert d'Astrée, Le Corsaire, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Mariss Jansons, Matthew Bourne, Maurizio Pollini, Natalia Osipova, Nothing, Oedipe, Opera Holland Park, Opéra national de Paris, Opera North, Opera Rara, Orchestre de Paris, Pagliacci, Peter Hall, Philippe Cassard, Pique Dame, Puccini, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Farnes, Richard Jones, Roderick Williams, Rodula Gaitanou, Rossini, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera, Ruxandra Donose, Semiramide, Shostakovich, Sondra Radvanovsky, Sonya Yoncheva, Stefan Herheim, Stuart MacRae, Tamara Rojo, Teatro alla Scala, The Devil Inside, The Golden Cockerel, The Nose, The Nutcracker, The Queen of Spades, The Red Shoes, The Rose and the Ring, The Sleeping Beauty, The Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, Verbier Festival, Verdi, Vladimir Stoyanov, Welsh National Opera, Written on Skin, Zenaida Yanowsky | Comments Off

Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim’s remarkable Pique Dame at Dutch National Opera

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades ***** Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, 9th June 2016 “Wept terribly when Hermann gave up the ghost,” wrote Tchaikovsky in his diary. What was it that drove the composer to identify so closely with such an … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Alexey Markov, Amsterdam, Andrei Popov, Anna Goryachova, Dutch National Opera, Larissa Diadkova, Mariss Jansons, Misha Didyk, Olga Savova, Philipp Fürhofer, Pique Dame, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Stefan Herheim, Svetlana Aksenova, Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades, Vladimir Stoyanov | 1 Comment

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