Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Roxana Constantinescu

Julia Lezhneva, Max Cencic und Armonia Atenea unter George Petrou brillieren in einer denkwürdigen konzertanten Aufführung von Hasses Siroe.

Eminent choix de programmation que d’adjoindre à l’attendu Stabat Mater de Rossini l’amène Symphonie n°3 de Schubert et, surtout, l’inédit Chant Funèbre de Stravinsky, retrouvé en 2014 à Saint Pétersbourg et ici en création. 

A bird's-eye view of Gustavo Dudamel's opening concert in the LA Phil's Mozart-Pärt cycle.

El teatro Campoamor acoge una versión ágil, creíble, y magníficamente ensamblada del clásico de Mozart.

Armonia Atenea and a thrillingly virtuosic cast, led by countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić, bring Hasse’s Siroe to Amsterdam

Zurich recently brought a new cast to Robert Wilson’s production of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma, a triumph of the bel canto style.

Grand succès de Hasse, le rival de Haendel, l’opéra Siroe, Re di Persia est tiré cet automne de l’oubli par Max Emanuel Cenčić dans le rôle-titre et à la mise en scène. Un spectacle éblouissant.

This opera gala saw the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra mark their 15th anniversary with an unforgettable evening. The BIPO were joined by tenor Roberto Alagna, making his Istanbul debut, and mezzo-soprano Roxana Constantinescu, a rising star.

The venerable Viennese tradition of airing dirty operatic laundry in public found an unlikely proponent this season in the form of the Theater an der Wien’s mild-mannered director Roland Geyer, who, unhappy with William Friedkin’s production of The Tales of Hoffmann in March, abruptly sacked the American director and announced he would devise a new staging himself a matter of months before the

Director William Friedkin doesn’t put a dramaturgical foot wrong in his Theater an der Wien production of The Tales of Hoffmann and yet doesn’t challenge, or even engage with, any of the opera’s Romantic positions.