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Digital projections make Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s Parsifal seem alienating and strange, but the singing is terrific and the orchestra sounds sensational.
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Director Milos Rau, composer Hèctor Parra and librettist Fiston Mwanza Mujila put the operatic spotlight on the fight for justice after a mining disaster in the DRC, with mixed results.
A neglected Schubert masterpiece from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Two short choral works and a Bach double violin concerto introduce Schubert’s neglected masterpiece, his Mass in A flat major.
Blue, Jeanine Tesori's new opera on urban violence, comes to ENO
Blue could hardly have been better rendered than here. Indeed, I wish every opera I see could be staged with such grace and finesse.
Lucid in music and narrative: ENO's Rhinegold
Martyn Brabbins conducts an excellent ENO orchestra and consistently good ensemble cast as Richard Jones delivers a wealth of narrative detail to introduce Wagner's Ring.