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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

Scarpia stabbed, Tosca smothered by Livermore’s La Scala staging

Posted on December 8, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Puccini: Tosca Teatro alla Scala, 7th December 2019 A stone lion pins down its prey in Scarpia’s study, symbolic, no doubt, of the cat-and-mouse game the Chief of Police plays with Tosca in Act 2. But it could also represent … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Alfonso Antoniozzi, Anna Netrebko, Carlo Bosi, Carlo Cigni, D-Wok, Davide Livermore, Ernesto Panariello, Francesco Meli, Gianluca Falaschi, Giò Forma, Giulio Mastrototaro, Luca Salsi, Puccini, Riccardo Chailly, Teatro alla Scala, Tosca | Leave a comment

Codes of honour trip up Bechtolf’s Ernani at La Scala

Posted on September 30, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Ernani *** Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 29th September 2018 George Bernard Shaw admired the “fierce noonday sun” of the score to Ernani. “The one with the bandits” evens gets a glancing mention in his play, Arms and the Man. I’m not … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Adam Fischer, Ailyn Pérez, Ernani, Francesco Meli, Ildar Abdrazakov, Luca Salsi, Matteo Desole, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Teatro alla Scala, Verdi | Leave a comment

Rossini’s Thieving Magpie doesn’t quite take flight at La Scala

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Rossini: La gazza ladra *** Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 12th April 2017 Everyone knows the overture to La gazza ladra. It’s the one that begins with a pair of snare drums snarling across opposite sides of the orchestra which then … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Alex Esposito, Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Edgardo Rocha, Gabriele Salvatores, La gazza ladra, Michele Pertusi, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Paolo Bordogna, Riccardo Chailly, Rosa Feola, Rossini, Serena Malfi, Teatro alla Scala, Teresa Iervolino | 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

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