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Aida geht auch anders
Giuseppe Verdis Aida hält alles bereit, was man für eine bombastische Operninszenierung braucht. Doch was, wenn man einfach auf den ganzen Pomp verzichtet und eine ganz schlichte Inszenierung wählt?
La Reine de Chypre renaît au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Le Théâtre des Champs-Élysées nous a permis de découvrir la Reine de Chypre, opéra oublié de Fromental Halévy, avec à l'affiche Hervé Niquet et Véronique Gens. Une oeuvre tout finesse et d'une grande efficacité dramatique.
La Reine de Chypre claims three tenor victims
Richard Wagner, reviewing La Reine de Chypre for the Dresden Abend-Zeitung, praised Halévy's opera as “decidedly the best that has appeared on the Opéra's boards since Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots”. It's impossible not to agree.
Prom 14: a Barber with bite as Glyndebourne goes to The Proms
Glyndebourne's annual performance at the Proms proves dramatically untraditional but musically solid.
Forced farce: Arden's Barber at Glyndebourne
Annabel Arden's new production, although decently sung and visually striking, is seriously under-directed, allowing forced acting to blunt the humour.
Israelites vs Philistines: Samson et Dalila at Grange Park
Grange Park’s Samson et Dalila doesn’t hit the bull’s eye, but it’s well worth the visit for a decent all-round staging of an unfamiliar work, an excellent rendering of its sumptuous score and for a thrilling piece of singing by Carl Tanner.