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Boris Godounov, un tzar du XXIe siècle à mille lieues de la Russie
Boris Godounov pour la première fois à Bastille dans sa version originale de 1869. Casting excellent, mais la transposition dans l'époque moderne souffre de dissonances avec le livret et la musique de Moussorgski.
A magical Golden Cockerel at the Concertgebouw
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Vasily Petrenko uncovers the magic of Rimsky-Korsakov’s exotic score.
Enescu’s ambitious only opera opens LPO season
The London Philharmonic’s concert performance of Enescu’s Oedipe proves an extravagant but triumphant way to launch the orchestra’s new Royal Festival Hall season.
A blazing Oedipe kicks off Bucharest’s Enescu Festival
Vladimir Jurowski and the LPO gave a stunning performance of Enescu’s operatic masterpiece, despite a dramatically limp concert staging.
Jurowski drowns out propaganda with Prokofiev
As the first non-Russian orchestra to tackle a complete Semyon Kotko, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic gave a tension-propelled performance under the inspired leadership of Vladimir Jurowski.
The root of all evil: The Miserly Knight
Vladimir Jurowski is a wily programmer. Pairing a concert performance of Rachmaninov's The Miserly Knight with extracts from Das Rheingold seemed a shrewd move.