En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Catherine Carby

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Habsburg history lesson comes with a cast list as long as your arm, but the plots and intrigues ensure a gripping evening at the ballet.

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Londres

06 oct 2022

Sex, scandal and Sisi: Mayerling opens Royal Ballet season

Por Mark Pullinger

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Hereford

Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral

Por Simon Cummings, 23 julio 2022

The Three Choirs Festival opens with a performance of Dvořák’s Requiem characterised by extremes of melancholy and hope.

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Hereford

24 jul 2022

Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral

Por Simon Cummings

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Buxton

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, fine singing, confusing production

Por Peter Connors, 15 julio 2022

Buxton International Festival presents Rossini's exhilarating La donna del lago with fine singing, but it is undermined by Jacopo Spirei's staging.

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Buxton

17 jul 2022

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, confusing production

Por Peter Connors

Londres

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival

Por Mark Pullinger, 14 marzo 2020

In its 25th anniversary season, Richard Eyre's production continues to attract the world's great sopranos to the role of Violetta, the latest being Aleksandra Kurzak.

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Londres

15 mar 2020

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival

Por Mark Pullinger

Londres

“Esultate!” Kunde's Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Por Mark Pullinger, 09 diciembre 2019

The American must be one of the few tenors to tackle both Rossini and Verdi's Moor with success.

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Londres

10 dic 2019

“Esultate!” Kunde's Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Por Mark Pullinger

Adelaide

A much anticipated amazing Girls Night Out in Adelaide

Por Brian Angus, 09 agosto 2019

When two internationally acclaimed sopranos, two internationally acclaimed mezzos, a brilliant world-renowned conductor, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the music of Richard Strauss align all the elements of a magnificent, thrilling evening have gelled.

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Adelaide

10 ago 2019

A much anticipated amazing Girls Night Out in Adelaide

Por Brian Angus

Sídney

The return of Monteverdi: Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Por David Larkin, 13 junio 2019

Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is given the Pinchgut treatment, with an abstract staging complementing historically informed music-making under Erin Helyard.

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Sídney

16 jun 2019

Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Por David Larkin

Londres

Here be monsters: a bracing new Idomeneo from English Touring Opera

Por Benjamin Poore, 08 marzo 2019

A direct and expressive new production of one of Mozart's most adventurous operas enthrals at the Hackney Empire.

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Londres

10 mar 2019

A bracing new Idomeneo from English Touring Opera

Por Benjamin Poore

Londres

The Royal Ballet opens the new season with Mayerling

Por Graham Watts, 08 octubre 2018

A new season for The Royal Ballet and a new star is "born" in this performance that highlights the company's strength in depth

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Londres

09 oct 2018

The Royal Ballet opens the new season with Mayerling

Por Graham Watts

Londres

Skelton and Anger set the scene for Stemme in Covent Garden's superb Walküre

Por David Karlin, 26 septiembre 2018

We start with a triumphant Royal Opera debut from Stuart Skelton, we close with Nina Stemme at her finest; a thrilling orchestral performance links the two. A memorable Walküre.

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Londres

27 sep 2018

Skelton and Anger set the scene for a superb Walküre

Por David Karlin

Londres

Damp squibs prevent ETO's Rossini: Fireworks! from taking off

Por Dominic Lowe, 22 febrero 2018

ETO's extracts from Rossini's serious operas at the Hackney Empire lacked spark and dynamism, but saw a fine showing from Elena Xanthoudakis and Catherine Carby.

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Londres

24 feb 2018

Damp squibs prevent ETO's Rossini: Fireworks! from taking off

Por Dominic Lowe

Londres

Monteverdi on a doughnut: A drab Return of Ulysses fails to thrill the Roundhouse

Por David Karlin, 10 enero 2018

A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.

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Londres

11 ene 2018

Monteverdi on a doughnut: Ulysses fails to thrill

Por David Karlin

Londres

Static but worth the slog: ETO's two-part Giulio Cesare

Por Olivia Bell, 07 octubre 2017

Conway's decision to render Handel's epic in its entirety was let down by a static staging and unnecessary repeats that masked the hidden gem-like arias.

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Londres

09 oct 2017

Static but worth the slog: ETO's Giulio Cesare

Por Olivia Bell

Londres

A final outing for the Royal Opera's lavish but fusty Tales of Hoffmann

Por Mark Pullinger, 07 noviembre 2016

When an enormous black gondola creaks and shudders its way across the stage in the “Giulietta' act of the Royal Opera's Tales of Hoffmann, it acts as a metaphor for John Schlesinger's venerable production.

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Londres

08 nov 2016

Final outing for the Royal Opera's fusty Hoffmann

Por Mark Pullinger

Londres

A fun-filled La Calisto from English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire

Por Dominic Lowe, 14 octubre 2016

Clever staging and a high standard of acting does much to happily while away the three hours of this baroque opera in the second of ETO's Baroque extravaganza.

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Londres

16 oct 2016

A fun-filled La Calisto from ETO

Por Dominic Lowe

Norwich

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, ETO

Por Charlotte Valori, 23 marzo 2016

English Touring Opera gives Gluck's reformist masterpiece a suitably blood-spattered outing in a production which keeps the opera in touch with its classical roots.

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Norwich

29 mar 2016

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride

Por Charlotte Valori

Londres

Something old, something new: Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei, English Touring Opera

Por Charlotte Valori, 10 marzo 2016

Donizetti's back catalogue proves just as rich as his well-loved works, with this blisteringly good foray into an extraordinary opera whose UK premiere is 179 undeserved years late.

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Londres

14 mar 2016

Something old, something new: Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei

Por Charlotte Valori

Londres

Verismo before its time: Donizetti's Siege of Calais at English Touring Opera

Por David Karlin, 07 marzo 2015

Written half a century before the verismo movement, Donizetti paints a true-to-life portrait of a besieged people which is genuinely touching. James Conway's straightforward production features some notable individual singers and an excellent performance by the chorus.

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Londres

08 mar 2015

Verismo before its time: Donizetti's Siege of Calais

Por David Karlin