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Toronto

4. Okt. 2024

Fine music-making redeems dull production in COC’s Nabucco

Von John Gilks

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla © Astrid Ackermann / BR

Paris

L'atypique Sixième de Bruckner par le Philhar' et Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla

Von Erwan Gentric, 26. April 2024

Délocalisé pour l'occasion à la Philharmonie de Paris, l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio a convaincu dans un programme atypique, malgré la direction rigide et musclée de la cheffe lituanienne.

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Paris

26. Apr. 2024

L'atypique Sixième de Bruckner par le Philhar' et Gražinytė-Tyla

Von Erwan Gentric

Paris

Un Tristan sans Isolde à l’Opéra de Paris

Von Erwan Gentric, 17. Januar 2023

Si la direction de Gustavo Dudamel et la mise en scène de Peter Sellars rendent justice au chef-d'œuvre wagnérien, la distribution inégale suffit à ternir le tableau.

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Paris

17. Jan. 2023

Un Tristan sans Isolde à l’Opéra de Paris

Von Erwan Gentric

Clermont-Ferrand

Cinq stars pour vingt bougies : le bel anniversaire du Centre Lyrique

Von Roland Duclos, 5. April 2019

Le Centre Lyrique Clermont Auvergne fête vingt années de passion et de combats pour faire vivre l'opéra et la musique en région. Et il ouvre la voix à plus d'un talent...

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Clermont-Ferrand

5. Apr. 2019

Cinq stars pour vingt bougies : le bel anniversaire du Centre Lyrique

Von Roland Duclos

Ballo II, the American cut: an indigestible staging by David Pountney for WNO

Von Mark Valencia, 9. Februar 2019

Musically, WNO gets it right. Straightforward brilliance is the order of the day, and plenty of it.

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Cardiff

9. Feb. 2019

Ballo II, the American cut: an indigestible staging at WNO

Von Mark Valencia

Seattle Opera's Porgy and Bess is a vocal and dramatic stunner

Von Jason Victor Serinus, 11. August 2018

Seattle Opera's memorable Porgy and Bess excels with an exceptional cast who performed with utmost sympathy for their roles.

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Seattle

11. Aug. 2018

Seattle Opera's Porgy and Bess is a vocal and dramatic stunner

Von Jason Victor Serinus

Wheel of Fortune: Preziosilla spins Pountney's Force of Destiny

Von Mark Pullinger, 2. Februar 2018

When the entire plot is triggered by a freak accident, you can't blame director David Pountney for making Fate itself one of the key characters.

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Cardiff

2. Feb. 2018

Wheel of Fortune: Preziosilla spins Pountney's Force of Destiny

Von Mark Pullinger

Atlanta

Spano conducts a concert version of Verdi's Otello in Atlanta

Von William E Ford, 7. Oktober 2017

With Verdi's Otello, Music Director Robert Spano continues a recent Atlanta Symphony Orchestra tradition of presenting grand operatic works in a concert hall version

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Atlanta

7. Okt. 2017

Spano Conducts a Concert Version Otello in Atlanta

Von William E Ford

Birmingham

Die Fledermaus: WNO's jolly good romp in Birmingham

Von Clive Peacock, 28. Juni 2017

WNO's excellent revival of John Copley's 2011 staging of Die Fledermaus is a delight.

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Birmingham

28. Juni 2017

WNO's jolly good romp in Birmingham

Von Clive Peacock

Seattle begins New Year with Beethoven's Ninth

Von Erica Miner, 7. Januar 2017

To open the new year, Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot chose a standard work, Beethoven’s Ninth, prefaced with an unusual one by French composer Olivier Messaien.

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Seattle

7. Jan. 2017

Seattle begins New Year with Beethoven's Ninth

Von Erica Miner

Musically excellent but excessively brutal: Verdi's Macbeth at WNO

Von Rohan Shotton, 17. September 2016

Oliver Sears' production of Macbeth comes to Cardiff in a production which offers a great deal musically but doesn't quite coalesce dramatically.

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Cardiff

17. Sept. 2016

Musically excellent but excessively brutal

Von Rohan Shotton

Maria Stuarda at Seattle Opera: Donizetti fever rages on from coast to coast

Von Thomas May, 9. März 2016

The thrills of Tudor (pseudo-)history and bel canto expressivity combine in the second of Donizetti's “Three Queens” operas, Maria Stuarda, making its company debut at Seattle Opera.

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Seattle

9. März 2016

Maria Stuarda at Seattle Opera: Donizetti fever rages on from coast to coast

Von Thomas May

Seattle Nabucco aims for innovation but falls flat

Von Thomas May, 8. August 2015

To open its season, Seattle Opera presents its first-ever Nabucco in a production undermined by weak staging and uneven casting.

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Seattle

8. Aug. 2015

Seattle Nabucco aims for innovation but falls flat

Von Thomas May

Glitter and black ostrich feathers prevail in WNO's Nabucco

Von Simon Rees, 31. Mai 2014

Rudolf Frey's production of Nabucco for Welsh National Opera undercuts the solemnity and beauty of the opera, detracting from some fine performances.

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