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Raimonda Skabeikaitė; Gintaras Varnas; Lithuanian National Opera; Julius Geniušas; Vytautas Narbutas; Juozas Statkevičius; Eugenijus Sabaliauskas
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Avec Irrelohe, Franz Schreker revient hanter l'Opéra de Lyon
David Bösch monte une formidable nouvelle production d'Irrelohe de Franz Schreker, compositeur encore trop rarement joué. Sous la baguette habile de Bernhard Kontarsky, Ambur Braid se distingue dans le rôle d'Eva.
Cinders on the couch: Freudian Cendrillon at Glyndebourne
Cinderella undergoes psychoanalysis on the Sussex Downs as Fiona Shaw's production is revived for the Glyndebourne Festival.
Overwrought and over-thought: Cendrillon
In her anxiety to be ‘new’, Shaw slaps a sackload of semi-comprehensible ideas onto a sort-of present day update.
Neither shocking nor shabby: Tosca at Llangollen
The Llangollen International Eistedffod opens with a star-studded concert performance of Puccni's political/romantic thriller.
An excellent Tosca from Petrenko and the RLPO with Bryn Terfel
Vasily Petrenko conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and a fine trio of principals in an excellent semi-staged production of Puccini’s Tosca, directed by Amy Lane.The two performances of the opera form the culmination of Bryn Terfel’s two-week stint as Artist in Residence with the orchestra.