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Salzburg

28 Jul 2016

Surreale Uraufführung: The Exterminating Angel

Von Christine Arnold

Kurzak und Pidò erwecken einen ausgelassenen Turco in Italia in Caurier und Leisers Dolce Vita-Produktion

Von David Karlin, 11 April 2015

Aleskandra Kurzak gibt in der neuesten Wiederaufnahme von Il turco in Italia als Fiorilla eine top Darbietung und führt eine Starbesetzung an, während Evelino Pidò uns zeigt, wie man Rossini dirigiert.

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London

11 Apr 2015

Kurzak und Pidò erwecken einen ausgelassenen Turco in Italia

Von David Karlin

Naxos kapituliert, Mattilas Ariadne regiert

Von Mark Pullinger, 25 Juni 2014

Karita Mattila and Jane Archibald machen die Ariadne auf Naxos der Royal Opera ein Muss.

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London

25 Jun 2014

Naxos kapituliert, Mattilas Ariadne regiert

Von Mark Pullinger

Edward Jowle (Figaro) and Ava Dodd (Susanna) © Mihaela Bodlovic

Sir Thomas Allen’s Marriage of Figaro for Scottish Opera still entertains

Von David Smythe, 09 Mai 2026

A traditional Marriage of Figaro entertains with a strong cast, eye-catching design and lighting, and Amanda Holden’s earthy libretto.

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Glasgow

09 Mai 2026

Sir Thomas Allen’s Figaro for Scottish Opera still entertains

Von David Smythe

Glyndebourne

Merriment aplenty in Cal McCrystal's Merry Widow at Glyndebourne

Von Dominic Lowe, 09 Juni 2024

Glyndebourne's new production of Lehár's greatest work is interpreted with his customary flair and fun by Cal McCrystal.

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Glyndebourne

09 Jun 2024

Merriment aplenty in Cal McCrystal's Merry Widow at Glyndebourne

Von Dominic Lowe

David Stout (Bartolo) and Samuel Dale Johnson (Figaro) © James Glossop

Scottish Barber of Seville packed with fun

Von David Smythe, 17 Oktober 2023

Sir Thomas Allen returns to Scottish Opera to revive The Barber of Seville with a strong cast headed by Samuel Dale Johnson, Anthony Gregory, David Stout and Simone McIntosh.

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Glasgow

17 Okt 2023

Scottish Barber of Seville packed with fun

Von David Smythe

Sir Thomas Allen directs a delightful Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera

Von David Smythe, 21 Mai 2022

Set in the sinister backstreets of Venice, this production from 2013 boasts strong singing all around and brisk, bright conducting by Stuart Stratford.

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Glasgow

21 Mai 2022

Sir Thomas Allen directs a delightful Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera

Von David Smythe

Edinburgh

Devilish downpour cannot dampen The Soldier's Tale at the EIF

Von Roy Westbrook, 21 August 2021

Rarely has so distinguished a group been assembled to give this work live; it would have shone as a highlight even in a normal year of visiting foreign ensembles and performers.

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Edinburgh

21 Aug 2021

Devilish downpour cannot dampen The Soldier's Tale at the EIF

Von Roy Westbrook

Stovepipe hats are back: Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns

Von David Smythe, 04 Mai 2019

Sir Thomas Allen’s crowd-pleasing Magic Flute returns to Scottish Opera in a finely sung performance with Tobias Ringborg drawing period colours from the orchestra.

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Glasgow

04 Mai 2019

Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns

Von David Smythe

There's no disguising it: duplicity and deceit as Così fan tutte returns to The Royal Opera

Von Stephen Pritchard, 25 Februar 2019

Everyone is in the know in Jan Philipp Gloger's “School for Lovers”, receiving its first revival at Covent Garden.

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London

25 Feb 2019

Duplicity and deceit as Così returns to The Royal Opera

Von Stephen Pritchard

Missing too many bullseyes: Bernstein's Candide semi-staged by the LSO

Von Mark Valencia, 08 Dezember 2018

Jane Archibald gave possibly the most dazzling account of Cunegonde's music that I’ve heard.

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London

08 Dez 2018

Bernstein's Candide semi-staged by the LSO

Von Mark Valencia

Scottish Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos is witty and passionate

Von David Smythe, 24 März 2018

Antony McDonald’s take on Ariadne auf Naxos, a co-production from Scottish Opera and Opera Holland Park, sparkles with wit.

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Glasgow

24 Mär 2018

Scottish Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos is witty and passionate

Von David Smythe

The Met's Merry Widow fails to convince

Von Edward Sava-Segal, 16 Dezember 2017

A conventional and quite predictable staging of Lehár’s most famous operetta was saved by dedicated musicians.

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New York City

16 Dez 2017

The Met's Merry Widow fails to convince

Von Edward Sava-Segal

Glyndebourne

Keep calm and carry on singing: love and art overcome wartime adversity in Glyndebourne’s Ariadne

Von Matthew Rye, 25 Juni 2017

A superlative cast and perceptive staging make for a gripping revival of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival.

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Glyndebourne

25 Jun 2017

Keep calm and carry on singing

Von Matthew Rye

Manchester

A shattering Gurre-Lieder from the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Sir Mark Elder

Von Rohan Shotton, 04 Juni 2017

Sir Mark Elder's 70th birthday Gurre-Lieder threatens to dislodge the roof in Manchester with the combined forces of the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic

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Manchester

04 Jun 2017

A shattering Gurre-Lieder from the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Sir Mark Elder

Von Rohan Shotton

The indiscreet charmlessness of the bourgeoisie: Adès brings The Exterminating Angel to opera

Von David Karlin, 24 April 2017

Luis Buñuel's derision at the sense of entitlement of over-privileged, self-righteous prigs shines through a high quality operatic adaptation.

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London

24 Apr 2017

Adès brings The Exterminating Angel to opera

Von David Karlin

Borderline sumptuous: Scottish Opera revives The Marriage of Figaro

Von Gregor Forbes, 12 Oktober 2016

Inventive comedy and excellent musicality bring Sir Thomas Allen’s traditional production back to life.

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Glasgow

12 Okt 2016

Borderline sumptuous: Scottish Opera's Figaro

Von Gregor Forbes

Manchester

Sir Thomas Allen and Joseph Middleton: Echoes of a Mountain Song

Von Imogen Phoebe Webb, 30 März 2016

Wednesday night saw the masterful rendition of British songs, by the legendary baritone at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, part of the ‘Echoes of a Mountain Song’ series.

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Manchester

30 Mär 2016

Echoes of a Mountain Song in Manchester

Von Imogen Phoebe Webb

Karita Mattila a peerless Ariadne at the Royal Opera

Von David Karlin, 10 Oktober 2015

Jane Archibald and Ruxandra Donose provide a compelling prologue to Ariadne auf Naxos, while Karita Mattila's majestic performance lights up the opera seria second half.

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London

10 Okt 2015

Karita Mattila a peerless Ariadne

Von David Karlin

Gala opening to The Merry Widow at The Metropolitan Opera

Von David Browning, 31 Dezember 2014

Only the slightest of quibbles with a fun, frothy new production of The Merry Widow at The Met.

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New York City

31 Dez 2014

Gala opening to The Met's The Merry Widow

Von David Browning

Gateshead

Britten in Gateshead: The North East's War Requiem

Von Jane Shuttleworth, 08 November 2014

Sir Thomas Allen and Robert Murray give a compelling performance as the two soldiers in Britten's War Requiem.

Gateshead

08 Nov 2014

The North East's War Requiem

Von Jane Shuttleworth

Minimalist intensity: Robert Carsen's Dialogues des Carmélites at Covent Garden

Von David Karlin, 29 Mai 2014

Robert Carsen’s production is an exercise in extreme minimalism. Dialogues des Carmélites is a great opera, and this production touches greatness without quite grasping it in both hands.

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London

29 Mai 2014

Minimalist intensity: Robert Carsen's Dialogues des Carmélites at Covent Garden

Von David Karlin

Scottish Opera's sinister Venetian Don Giovanni suits the dark tale perfectly

Von David Smythe, 26 Oktober 2013

A year of theatre refurbishment leaves Scottish Opera with only three and half full productions this season, so the spotlight turned firmly onto this Don Giovanni from director Sir Thomas Allen, designer Simon Higlett and lighting designer Mark Jonathan.

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Glasgow

26 Okt 2013

Scottish Opera: Don Giovanni

Von David Smythe

Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival: Scottish Chamber Orchestra play Fauré's Requiem led by Robin Ticciati

Von Alan Coady, 17 August 2013

A concert programme can resemble a puzzle; searching for links and contrasts often results in a more enjoyable, unified experience. I therefore strove to arrive in sufficient time for a careful reading of the programme notes for this performance by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Usher Hall, part of the Edinburgh International Festival.

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Edinburgh

17 Aug 2013

Edinburgh International Festival: Scottish Chamber Orchestra play Fauré's Requiem led by Robin Ticciati

Von Alan Coady

Chicago

Don Pasquale sparkles at the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Von Kristina Powers, 25 November 2012

The human race craves comic relief... a universally accepted fact throughout the entire history of mankind. Comic books, sitcoms, comic theater... all seek to blissfully whisk us out of the doldrums and politics of today’s ever-busy society.

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Chicago

25 Nov 2012

Don Pasquale sparkles at the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Von Kristina Powers

Scottish Opera's steampunk Magic Flute delights

Von David Smythe, 27 Oktober 2012

Following acclaimed productions at Scottish Opera of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, recently revived, Thomas Allen returns to Glasgow to direct The Magic Flute.

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Glasgow

27 Okt 2012

Scottish Opera's steampunk Magic Flute delights

Von David Smythe

Miller's no-frills Mozart is back: Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House

Von Francesca Vella, 27 Januar 2012

The last opera of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle – the second of the composer’s operas to be performed in this Mozart-dominated season at the Royal Opera House – Così fan tutte pivots on two pairs of young lovers whose affection is put to the test by an old ‘philosopher’, Don Alfonso. Women, the old man argues, are all the same: never constant in their love, never loyal to their men.

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London

27 Jan 2012

Miller's no-frills Mozart is back: Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House

Von Francesca Vella

Ariadne auf Naxos

Von Dr.B, 10 Mai 2011

The Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos was inspired by the Moliere play The Middle-Class Gentleman. The richest man in Vienna has arranged for two entertainments--one a serious opera composed by a young man just for the occasion, and the other an Italian comedy group. He decides at the last minute to combine the two into one entertainment. If he were a proper gentleman, he would know better.

New York City

10 Mai 2011

Ariadne auf Naxos

Von Dr.B

Wacky Ariadne Marvels But Isn't Marvelous

Von Gale Martin, 07 Mai 2011

Tumblers and fire jugglers in rainbow colors. Singing nymphs soaring for stories into the air. Arias deeply dramatic and broadly comic. The Metropolitan Opera’s interpretation of Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss is a magical mashup of modern and classic, seria and buffa, technique and technology that pleases but falls short of terrific for this reviewer.

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New York City

07 Mai 2011

Wacky Ariadne Marvels But Isn't Marvelous

Von Gale Martin

Hurrah! The Witch is Dead!

Von Hilary Fisher, 29 Dezember 2010

This reviewer fully expected not to enjoy today’s matinee, having read the recent Guardian review and heard mixed reports from friends who saw it when it first came out.

London

29 Dez 2010

Hurrah! The Witch is Dead!

Von Hilary Fisher

The Met in HD, Der Rosenkavalier, 2010

Von Aksel Tollåli, 01 September 2010

Read our review of Nathaniel Merrill's production of Der Rosenkavalier by Strauss, in its 2010 HD broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.