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Amsterdam

06 Dez 2018

Enescus komplexer Oedipe in Amsterdam

Von Michael Klier

Bergen

Seelisch zerrüttet: Stuart Skelton führt einen grandiosen Peter Grimes an

Von Mark Valencia, 30 Mai 2017

Dieser Peter Grimes war die Geschichte zweier Talente: der Dirigent und der Sänger.

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Bergen

30 Mai 2017

Ein grandioser Peter Grimes in Bergen

Von Mark Valencia

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith

Alresford

Ruzan Mantashyan’s compelling Tatyana makes the Grange Festival’s Eugene Onegin unmissable

Von Mark Pullinger, 26 Juni 2026

The Armenian soprano makes her Grange Festival debut – a casting coup that proves the single most compelling reason to see Max Webster’s new production.

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Alresford

26 Jun 2026

Compelling Ruzan Mantashyan makes the Grange’s Onegin unmissable

Von Mark Pullinger

Allan Clayton (Peter Grimes) © RBO | Tristram Kenton

No harbour shelters peace: Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Von Christopher Woodley, 05 Mai 2026

Allan Clayton and Sir Bryn Terfel lead a strong cast in a revival of Deborah Warner's dark staging of Britten's signature work at Covent Garden.

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London

05 Mai 2026

Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Von Christopher Woodley

Alexandra Oomens (Anne Trulove) and Adam Temple-Smith (Tom Rakewell) © Craig Fuller

Alresford

The Rake's Progress at The Grange Festival: richly entertaining, but is there soul?

Von David Karlin, 23 Juni 2024

Singing performances are excellent, the staging is well crafted and Stravinsky's eclectic score entertains from start to finish. But it's an evening's opera that doesn't touch the soul.

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Alresford

23 Jun 2024

The Rake's Progress at The Grange: richly entertaining

Von David Karlin

Paris

Dans les filets de Deborah Warner : Peter Grimes emporte Garnier

Von Tristan Labouret, 26 Januar 2023

C'est peut-être l'événement de la saison à l'Opéra de Paris : dans le chef-d'œuvre de Britten, la metteuse en scène britannique fait des débuts remarqués dans la Grande Boutique.

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Paris

26 Jan 2023

Dans les filets de Deborah Warner : Peter Grimes emporte Garnier

Von Tristan Labouret

The power of the sea, the cruelty of the mob: Peter Grimes at The Royal Opera

Von David Karlin, 17 März 2022

Deborah Warner's intelligent new Covent Garden staging provides the perfect backdrop for a strong singing cast in Britten's maritime masterpiece.

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London

17 Mär 2022

Potent sea, cruel mob: Peter Grimes at The Royal Opera

Von David Karlin

Madrid

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Von Juan José Freijo, 19 April 2021

La nueva producción de Peter Grimes se alza como la mejor propuesta de la temporada del Real con una magnífica dirección de Deborah Warner en la escena e Ivor Bolton en lo musical y una sobresaliente actuación vocal y dramática.

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Madrid

19 Apr 2021

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Von Juan José Freijo

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Von Matthew Rye, 30 November 2019

A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.

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London

30 Nov 2019

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Von Matthew Rye

Dublin

A moving and spirited Gerontius in Dublin

Von Michael Roddy, 08 November 2019

Conductor Kenneth Montgomery shaped a high-energy performance that at times raised the roof and at others was poignant and moving.

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Dublin

08 Nov 2019

A moving and spirited Gerontius in Dublin

Von Michael Roddy

Melbourne

Sir Andrew Davis leads Elgar’s Gerontius in Melbourne

Von Patricia Maunder, 08 März 2018

The double choir triumphs in the MSO’s massive, mostly successful attack on an English choral masterpiece all too rarely performed in Australia.

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Melbourne

08 Mär 2018

Sir Andrew Davis leads Elgar’s Gerontius in Melbourne

Von Patricia Maunder

Edward Gardner and the Bergen Phil storm the Edinburgh Festival with a powerful Peter Grimes

Von David Smythe, 13 August 2017

Stuart Skelton’s visceral Peter Grimes is matched by a strong cast with thrilling playing and singing from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner.

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Edinburgh

13 Aug 2017

A powerful Peter Grimes in Edinburgh

Von David Smythe

After an imperfect start, Dvořák’s Requiem catches fire at the Barbican

Von David Karlin, 13 April 2017

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus grow in stature through an evening which provides a good introduction to the virtues of Dvořák’s seldom-played large scale choral work.

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London

13 Apr 2017

Dvořák’s Requiem at the Barbican

Von David Karlin

Milton Keynes

Bitter wine: Frank Martin's Le Vin herbé an acquired taste

Von Mark Pullinger, 21 März 2017

Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé is as anti-Wagnerian a work as you could imagine. It is also the odd one out in Welsh National Opera’s “Love’s Poisoned Chalice” spring season.

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Milton Keynes

21 Mär 2017

Bitter wine: WNO's Le Vin herbé

Von Mark Pullinger

Anguish with or without words: the Philharmonia plays Schubert and Mahler

Von Charlotte Valori, 16 Oktober 2016

Superb Schubert followed by some altogether more mysterious and disorientating Mahler makes for a Sunday night treat at the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Josep Pons.

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London

16 Okt 2016

Anguish with or without words

Von Charlotte Valori

Inspired by Shakespeare: a London gala to celebrate The Bard

Von Mark Pullinger, 23 April 2016

“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it.” There was certainly plenty of Shakespeare-inspired music on the bill for the London Philharmonic Orchestra's celebration of The Bard.

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London

23 Apr 2016

Inspired by Shakespeare: a London gala

Von Mark Pullinger

Wien

Shock of the new: Cornelius Meister and the Vienna RSO on new days, new seasons, new compositions

Von Chanda VanderHart, 09 April 2016

Fingers and bows fluttered through dance-like figures and virtuosic passages packed with trills with astonishing clarity and brilliance.

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Wien

09 Apr 2016

Shock of the new: Vienna RSO

Von Chanda VanderHart

Paris

La Ville Morte de Korngold à Radio France : un lyrisme coloré et irrésistible

Von Julie Jozwiak, 30 Januar 2016

Le samedi 30 janvier 2016, La Ville Morte de Korngold était programmée à l'Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio. Marzena Diakun dirigeait un Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France en pleine forme et une distribution vocale dominée par Camilla Nylund. Un délice.

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Paris

30 Jan 2016

Irrésistible La Ville Morte de Korngold à Radio France

Von Julie Jozwiak

Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin returns to Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger, 19 Dezember 2015

Would a younger soprano taking the role of Tatyana blur Kasper Holten's "dancing doubles" vision of Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House?

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London

19 Dez 2015

Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin

Von Mark Pullinger

Too good to be true: A very fine Rakes Progress at the Edinburgh International Festival

Von David Smythe, 12 August 2015

A successful concert hall Rake's Progress at the Edinburgh International Festival with an impressively strong cast of singers, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Royal Conservatoire Voices under Sir Andrew Davis.

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Edinburgh

12 Aug 2015

A very fine Rakes Progress at the EIF

Von David Smythe

Glyndebourne

Dark deeds under the microscope: Britten's Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne

Von David Karlin, 05 Juli 2015

The Rape of Lucretia may be something of a problem piece, but Fiona Shaw's production is an excellent piece of ensemble theatre set around some very fine performances of music of rare beauty.

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Glyndebourne

05 Jul 2015

Dark deeds under the microscope: Britten's Lucretia

Von David Karlin

Drab Dutchman at Covent Garden only partially redeemed by singers

Von David Larkin, 05 Februar 2015

A dark and minimalist staging doesn't quite fire Wagner's Flying Dutchman into life at the Royal Opera House, despite worthy performances from Bryn Terfel, Adrianne Pieczonka and others under the direction of Andris Nelsons.

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London

05 Feb 2015

Drab Dutchman at Covent Garden

Von David Larkin

A traditional start to a traditional Proms season

Von Gavin Dixon, 18 Juli 2014

A brave choice for a Proms season opener, but Elgar's ponderous score is presented in the best possible light by the BBC forces.

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London

18 Jul 2014

A traditional start to a traditional Proms season

Von Gavin Dixon

Prom 45: Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage

Von Chris Garlick, 16 August 2013

It’s so good to hear Tippett’s ravishing opera, The Midsummer Marriage, performed in full at the Proms, particularly in Britten’s centenary year. Tippet’s work is like an antidote to Britten’s drier, more literal operatic style – so overflowing with warmth, colour and hope.

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London

16 Aug 2013

Prom 45: Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage

Von Chris Garlick

Bristol

Handel's Messiah reworked for the last night of the Bristol Proms

Von Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 03 August 2013

The last night of the Bristol Proms was experimental. A full house at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre was greeted by artistic director Tom Morris to introduce this semi-staged version of Handel’s Messiah – last performed in the venue in 1782, when it was too sacrilegious for churches. Morris said that Handel was “a dramatist”, and to honour this, he took a more theatrical route with this performance.

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Bristol

03 Aug 2013

Handel's Messiah reworked for the last night of the Bristol Proms

Von Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Sir Andrew Davis and RSNO in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

Von Alan Coady, 17 Mai 2013

RSNO concerts begin, for me and around 100 others, with the pre-concert talk. I'm especially glad of these when new to a work, such as Mendelssohn’s 1846 Elijah. A talk by those who have prepared the music for us adds something to even the most extensive “presearch”. Sir Andrew Davis, in conversation with RSNO principal trombonist Dávur Juul Magnussen, came across as extremely witty and erudite.

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Edinburgh

17 Mai 2013

Sir Andrew Davis and RSNO in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

Von Alan Coady

A fitting tribute to Sir Colin Davis: LSO and a superb cast perform Britten's The Turn of the Screw

Von Julia Savage, 16 April 2013

Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, part of the London Symphony Orchestra’s contribution to the Britten 100 celebrations, was supposed to have been conducted by Sir Colin Davis; it was instead dedicated to his memory following his death last Sunday.

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London

16 Apr 2013

A fitting tribute to Sir Colin Davis: LSO and a superb cast perform Britten's The Turn of the Screw

Von Julia Savage

Tokyo

An outstanding Peter Grimes in Tokyo

Von Nahoko Gotoh, 08 Oktober 2012

Willy Decker’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, which originated at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1994 and was revived at London’s Royal Opera House in 2004 and 2011, has now reached Tokyo. The work opened the new season of the New National Theatre Tokyo, the capital’s main opera house, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary.

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Tokyo

08 Okt 2012

An outstanding Peter Grimes in Tokyo

Von Nahoko Gotoh

True to the spirit of Pushkin: ENO's Eugene Onegin

Von David Karlin, 12 November 2011

Young man spurns the love of a good woman. Time passes. Man realises the error of his ways, but it is too late. It's not exactly the most taxing of plot lines, but in Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin turned it into a masterpiece.

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London

12 Nov 2011

True to the spirit of Pushkin: ENO's Eugene Onegin

Von David Karlin

Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes

Von David Karlin, 21 Juni 2011

English classical music is often associated with the countryside, the landscape and its villages, and Britten's opera Peter Grimes is no exception.

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London

21 Jun 2011

Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes

Von David Karlin

RSNO and Stéphane Denève: John Adams and Beethoven 9

Von Rohan Shotton, 05 Mai 2011

The final concert of the RSNO’s 2010-11 Usher Hall season was a journey from John Adams’ reflection on the tragedy of 11th September 2001 to Beethoven’s joyful statement of brotherhood in his Symphony No. 9. John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to mark the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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Edinburgh

05 Mai 2011

RSNO and Stéphane Denève: John Adams and Beethoven 9

Von Rohan Shotton

London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform all-Prokofiev programme

Von Hannah Gill, 03 April 2011

This evening’s programme showed us two aspects of Prokofiev’s output – his serious concert works for the stage and on the other hand his more populist music composed for film. Both were highly exciting, colourful works, and both typical of Prokofiev in different ways.The First Violin Concerto was a curious mixture of the ethereal and rustic.