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GloucesterBelshazzar’s Feast
Higgins, Elgar, Walton
Philharmonia Orchestra; Adrian Partington; David Stout; Three Choirs Festival Chorus
LondonLa traviata
Verdi: La traviata
Kevin John Edusei; Peter Konwitschny; English National Opera; Johannes Leiacker; Joachim Klein; English National Opera Orchestra; English National Opera Chorus
West HorsleyDas RheingoldNeuinszenierung
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Harry Sever; Charles Edwards; Grange Park Opera; Gabrielle Dalton; Tim Mitchell; English National Opera Orchestra
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Wagners Meistersinger in Topqualität
Die ENO war in der letzten Woche aus den falschen Gründen in den Nachrichten und Richard Jones' Meistersinger von Nürnberg musste dringend eine großartie Produktion werden. Mit einer glänzenden Vorstellung von Iain Paterson ist sie das.
Grange Park Opera’s Ring cycle opens with an excellent Rheingold
Launching that most ambitious of endeavours, a Ring cycle, Grange Park Opera’s production of Das Rheingold proves a real achievement, led by the superb Alberich of David Stout.
Elder and LPO plumb new depths in Vaughan Williams
Elder's reading of A Sea Symphony has the maturity and surefooted-ness of a conductor who has fully absorbed the work and long since recognised it as a masterpiece.
Coleridge-Taylor’s bloodless passion at the Three Choirs Festival
Though musically flawed, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral work The Atonement is given a superb performance at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral.
Ukraine matters: Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera
Why is Tchaikovsky’s very fine opera still a rarity outside Russia? David Pountney directs a new production at the Surrey festival.
Barbe and Doucet's stylish Don Pasquale is a comic delight
Barbe and Doucet’s witty 1960s Don Pasquale is revived for Scottish Opera, with Stuart Stratford conducting a fine cast.
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West HorsleyFalstaff
Verdi: Falstaff
Gianluca Marcianò; Stephen Medcalf; Grange Park Opera; Jamie Vartan; BBC Concert Orchestra; Grange Park Opera Chorus