En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Clive Bayley

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Aix-en-Provence

04 juil. 2025

Un Don Giovanni en PLS pour l’ouverture du Festival d’Aix

Par Romain Daroles

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The Rake’s Progress d'Olivier Py est de retour au Palais Garnier

Par Erwan Gentric, 30 novembre 2024

La production de 2008 donne lieu à une belle reprise sous la direction impeccable de Susanna Mälkki, avec une distribution dominée par Ben Bliss dans le rôle de Tom Rakewell.

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Paris

30 nov. 2024

The Rake’s Progress d'Olivier Py est de retour au Palais Garnier

Par Erwan Gentric

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L’Ange exterminateur de haut vol de Thomas Adès à l’Opéra Bastille

Par Erwan Gentric, 29 février 2024

La création française de l'opéra du compositeur britannique restera LE temps fort de la saison pour la Grande Boutique, la musique, la mise en scène et la distribution s'accordant à merveille.

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Paris

29 févr. 2024

L’Ange exterminateur de haut vol de Thomas Adès à Bastille

Par Erwan Gentric

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Hamlet vole au-dessus d’un nid de coucou à l’Opéra de Paris

Par Erwan Gentric, 11 mars 2023

La mise en scène forte de Krzysztof Warlikowski, l'excellence de la distribution et de la direction musicale font de cette nouvelle production un des temps forts de la saison de la Grande Boutique.

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Paris

11 mars 2023

Hamlet vole au-dessus d’un nid de coucou à l’Opéra de Paris

Par Erwan Gentric

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Dans les filets de Deborah Warner : Peter Grimes emporte Garnier

Par Tristan Labouret, 26 janvier 2023

C'est peut-être l'événement de la saison à l'Opéra de Paris : dans le chef-d'œuvre de Britten, la metteuse en scène britannique fait des débuts remarqués dans la Grande Boutique.

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Paris

26 janv. 2023

Dans les filets de Deborah Warner : Peter Grimes emporte Garnier

Par Tristan Labouret

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Leeds

Opera North’s “fleeing” Dutchman links to the plight of asylum seekers

Par Richard Wilcocks, 01 février 2025

Opera North’s The Flying Dutchman, directed by Annabel Arden, conjures up frightening storms and links the production to the plight of asylum seekers.

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Leeds

01 févr. 2025

Opera North’s “fleeing” Dutchman links to plight of asylum seekers

Par Richard Wilcocks

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Salzburg

Der Idiot: Highlight des Salzburger Festspielsommers

Par Isabella Steppan, 23 août 2024

Krzysztof Warlikowsi inszeniert Weinbergs Oper ebenso klar wie packend, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla inspiriert die Wiener Philharmoniker zur Höchstleistung und auch das Sängerensemble bietet Topqualität.

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Salzburg

23 août 2024

Der Idiot: Highlight des Salzburger Festspielsommers

Par Isabella Steppan

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Alden and Barlow impress in a minimalist Kátya Kabanová at Grange Park Opera

Par David Karlin, 27 juin 2024

A memorable performance, with Stephen Barlow conducting Janáček’s remarkable score with vividness and clarity, while David Alden's staging is a masterpiece of "less is more".

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West Horsley

27 juin 2024

An impressive, minimalist Kátya Kabanová at Grange Park Opera

Par David Karlin

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Peter Grimes a raging, powerful, defiant start to the new ENO season

Par Stephen Pritchard, 21 septembre 2023

English National Opera opens its new season with a revival of David Alden's masterly production.

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Londres

21 sept. 2023

Peter Grimes a raging, powerful, defiant start to the new ENO season

Par Stephen Pritchard

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Glyndebourne

Joélle Harvey is outstanding in Glyndebourne's incendiary Semele

Par Roy Westbrook, 23 juillet 2023

Adele Thomas makes a good case for Semele's operatic credentials in her production which makes effective nods towards Baroque opera’s devotion to spectacle.

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Glyndebourne

23 juil. 2023

Joélle Harvey is outstanding in Glyndebourne's incendiary Semele

Par Roy Westbrook

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Rome

Warlikowski’s kinetic prison: Janáček's From the House of the Dead in Rome

Par Alissa Balocco, 23 mai 2023

The Polish director comes to Italy for the first time to direct Janáček's last opera, with the young Belarusian Dmitry Matvienko conducting.

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Rome

23 mai 2023

Warlikowski’s prison: From the House of the Dead in Rome

Par Alissa Balocco

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Taking the Pils: Grange Park Opera proves that rare Janáček is no small beer

Par Matthew Rye, 26 juin 2022

Janáček’s satirical opera The Excursions of Mr Brouček may not be among his greatest dramatic works, yet it earns its place in the limelight for its musical, visual and dramatic wit at Grange Park Opera.

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West Horsley

26 juin 2022

Taking the Pils: Pountney proves that rare Janáček is no small beer

Par Matthew Rye

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A fine tail: new Cunning Little Vixen at English National Opera

Par Dominic Lowe, 20 février 2022

ENO has a long and fine history in Janáček’s corpus, and Jamie Manton's new production, performed by a cast that revels in the clash between nature and mankind, has much in which to delight.

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Londres

20 févr. 2022

A fine tail: new Cunning Little Vixen at English National Opera

Par Dominic Lowe

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Rome

Lend me your ears: world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli's Julius Caesar charms Rome

Par Elena Luporini, 23 novembre 2021

The Teatro dell'Opera opens its season with the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli and Ian Burton's new Shakespearean work, under the baton of Daniele Gatti and the direction of Robert Carsen.

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Rome

23 nov. 2021

Lend me your ears: Battistelli's Julius Caesar charms Rome

Par Elena Luporini

Ivan not quite so Terrible: a Rimsky-Korsakov double bill at Grange Park Opera

Par Mark Pullinger, 19 juin 2021

First marketed as Ivan the Terrible by Serge Diaghilev, Rimsky-Korsakov's first opera The Maid of Pskov makes a rare appearance outside of Russia, in leafy Surrey.

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West Horsley

19 juin 2021

Ivan not quite so Terrible at Grange Park Opera

Par Mark Pullinger

Madrid

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Par Juan José Freijo, 19 avril 2021

La nueva producción de Peter Grimes se alza como la mejor propuesta de la temporada del Real con una magnífica dirección de Deborah Warner en la escena e Ivor Bolton en lo musical y una sobresaliente actuación vocal y dramática.

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Madrid

19 avril 2021

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Par Juan José Freijo

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Par Matthew Rye, 30 novembre 2019

A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.

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Londres

30 nov. 2019

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Par Matthew Rye

Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera: gripping historical drama, powerfully sung

Par David Karlin, 06 juin 2019

Verdi's most political of operas brilliantly highlights the juxtaposition of personal desires and political imperatives

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West Horsley

06 juin 2019

Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera: gripping and powerfully sung

Par David Karlin

Billy Budd finally drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Par Mark Pullinger, 23 avril 2019

After nearly two decades away from the Covent Garden stage, it was time Britten's Billy Budd came home, in a new production from Madrid by Deborah Warner.

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Londres

23 avril 2019

Billy Budd finally drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Par Mark Pullinger

Two great Royal Opera debuts aren't enough to lift a Katya Kabanova lacking in drama

Par David Karlin, 04 février 2019

Amanda Majeski is magnificent in the title role; Ed Gardner shows total master of Janáček's music. But that's not enough to rescue a poorly thought out Richard Jones production.

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Londres

04 févr. 2019

Two great debuts, not enough drama: Katya Kabanova at ROH

Par David Karlin

A stylish Rake's Progress from Jurowski and the LPO

Par Stephen Pritchard, 03 novembre 2018

Toby Spence, Matthew Rose and Andrew Watts shine in a fluent semi-staging at the Royal Festival Hall.

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Londres

03 nov. 2018

A stylish Rake's Progress from Jurowski and the LPO

Par Stephen Pritchard

English National Opera revives Lucia di Lammermoor in chilling style

Par Mark Valencia, 25 octobre 2018

It’s the sprig of nightshade on a blood-red confection.

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Londres

25 oct. 2018

English National Opera revives Lucia di Lammermoor in chilling style

Par Mark Valencia

Edimbourg

A heroic performance of Siegfried at the Edinburgh International Festival

Par David Smythe, 08 août 2018

Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé orchestra are the powerhouse in a memorable performance of Siegfried. Simon O’ Neill, Iain Paterson and Christine Goerke head up a universally strong cast.

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Edimbourg

08 août 2018

A heroic performance of Siegfried at the Edinburgh Festival

Par David Smythe

Prom 59: La clemenza di Tito transfers from Glyndebourne to the Proms

Par Dominic Lowe, 28 août 2017

A strong cast led by Anna Stéphany's Sesto made the most of the last opportunity to hear Glyndebourne's production of Mozart's final opera.

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Londres

28 août 2017

La clemenza di Tito transfers from Glyndebourne

Par Dominic Lowe

Glyndebourne

One for sorrow: Claus Guth directs a taut, dark Clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne

Par Mark Pullinger, 26 juillet 2017

A grimly dark setting for Mozart's final opera, Sesto and Tito haunted by childhood memories.

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Glyndebourne

26 juil. 2017

One for sorrow: La clemenza di Tito at Glyndebourne

Par Mark Pullinger

Snape

A silvery Dream lost among the shadows: Britten at the Aldeburgh Festival

Par Mark Pullinger, 11 juin 2017

Netia Jones' new production taps into Britten's silvery underworld in a staging dominated by video wizardry which is hypnotically beautiful, but comes at a price.

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Snape

11 juin 2017

A silvery Dream lost among the shadows

Par Mark Pullinger

Madrid

Deborah Warner's new Billy Budd sets a new standard in Madrid

Par Fernando Remiro, 03 février 2017

Billy Budd triumphs in Madrid thanks to an inspired orchestra, a solid cast and a dream team of stage magicians.

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Madrid

03 févr. 2017

Warner's new Billy Budd sets a new standard in Madrid

Par Fernando Remiro

Manchester

A 24-carat Rheingold as the Hallé continues its Ring quest

Par Richard Ely, 27 novembre 2016

The Hallé's oddly-ordered Ring arrives at the beginning with Das Rheingold.

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Manchester

27 nov. 2016

A 24 carat Rheingold from the Hallé

Par Richard Ely

Belfast

Hedonism and downfall in Oliver Mears' farewell production at Northern Ireland Opera

Par Judith Wiemers, 18 novembre 2016

Oliver Mears' impressively-cast farewell production in Belfast combines gripping drama and exuberant fun in a symbol-packed reading of Don Giovanni.

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Belfast

18 nov. 2016

Hedonism and downfall: Don Giovanni in Belfast

Par Judith Wiemers

Strong in concept, strong in casting: Richard Jones' Don Giovanni at ENO

Par Dominic Lowe, 30 septembre 2016

Richard Jones' new production is original and thought-provoking, while a commendable cast soars under the capable baton of Mark Wigglesworth.

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Londres

30 sept. 2016

Strong concept and casting: ENO's Don Giovanni

Par Dominic Lowe

Blandford Forum

Fate's intentions: Eugene Onegin at the Dorset Opera Festival

Par Dominic Lowe, 26 juillet 2016

Deep in Dorset, Anna Patalong gives a powerful Tatyana, ably supported by a well-taught chorus in an English translation of Tchaikovsky's opera of hearts and friendships broken.

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Blandford Forum

26 juil. 2016

Eugene Onegin at the Dorset Opera Festival

Par Dominic Lowe

The Inquisition's dark days: Don Carlo at Grange Park

Par David Karlin, 18 juin 2016

Strong vocal and orchestral performances and a tour-de-force staging of Act II light up Grange Park's production of Verdi's political thriller of the dark days of the Spanish inquisition.

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Alresford

18 juin 2016

The Inquisition's dark days: Don Carlo at Grange Park

Par David Karlin

Glass' Akhnaten at ENO: an utterly absorbing visual and aural experience

Par David Karlin, 04 mars 2016

Phelim McDermott tackles Philip Glass's ancient Egypt in a production that's totally absorbing visually and aurally, with a star performance by Anthony Roth Costanzo.

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Londres

04 mars 2016

Glass' Akhnaten at ENO

Par David Karlin

Glyndebourne

Sometimes “straight” just works: McVicar's Entführung starts its Glyndeboune tour

Par David Karlin, 11 octobre 2015

David McVicar's production is visually stylish, superbly acted and the attention to detail is pervasive. Show-stealing acting from Franck Saurel's Selim and a fine Osmin from Clive Bayley help make this a memorable evening's opera.

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Glyndebourne

11 oct. 2015

McVicar's Entführung starts its Glyndeboune tour

Par David Karlin

Opera Rara: Donizetti's Les Martyrs a revelation

Par Mark Pullinger, 04 novembre 2014

Employing a new critical edition by Flora Willson, Mark Elder led the forces of The Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment in a concert performance of Donizetti's Les Martyrs, which demonstrates what a tremendous work it is.

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Londres

04 nov. 2014

Opera Rara: Donizetti's Les Martyrs a revelation

Par Mark Pullinger

Cardiff

Rossini's William Tell in fifty shades of grey

Par Simon Rees, 12 septembre 2014

Welsh National Opera's new production of Rossini's William Tell shows off orchestra and chorus to their full under Carlo Rizzi's baton

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Cardiff

12 sept. 2014

Rossini's William Tell in fifty shades of grey

Par Simon Rees

Grimes ahoy! Suffolk's coast transplanted to the rolling Hampshire Downs

Par Mark Pullinger, 30 mai 2014

Bringing Peter Grimes to Grange Park a year after the Britten centenary is an enormous challenge. With ‘Grimes on the Beach’ still fresh in the memory, the task of recreating the Suffolk coast in Hampshire’s idyllic countryside might have seemed a step too far.

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Alresford

30 mai 2014

Grimes ahoy! Suffolk's coast transplanted to the rolling Hampshire Downs

Par Mark Pullinger

New York

A Tale of Two Wozzecks: Goerne and Levine at the Met

Par David Allen, 06 mars 2014

Matthias Goerne steps in for Thomas Hampson and electrifies James Levine's Wozzeck at the Metropolitan Opera.

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New York

06 mars 2014

A Tale of Two Wozzecks: Goerne and Levine at the Met

Par David Allen

Elizabethana I and II: Britten's Gloriana at Covent Garden

Par David Karlin, 20 juin 2013

Of the various themes that make up Britten’s Gloriana, written to celebrate the coronation in 1953 and being given a rare outing at Covent Garden to mark the work’s 60th anniversary and Britten’s 100th, the most effective by far is a sort of operatic expansion of Shakespeare’s line “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown”.

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Londres

20 juin 2013

Elizabethana I and II: Britten's Gloriana at Covent Garden

Par David Karlin

Stephen Medcalf and Martyn Brabbins bring us a mixed Eugene Onegin at Grange Park

Par Roger Smith, 30 mai 2013

The scene in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin where the peasants, weary from gathering in the harvest, sing and dance for the woman who owns the estate (and, for that matter, owns them) is perhaps not the best example of gritty social realism in opera.

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Alresford

30 mai 2013

Stephen Medcalf and Martyn Brabbins bring us a mixed Eugene Onegin at Grange Park

Par Roger Smith

Hamburg

New Britten production in Hamburg: Gloriana as a village pageant

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 30 mars 2013

British director Richard Jones is well known for his bold, modern and often controversial takes on operatic repertoire. So I was very curious to see what surprising ideas he would come up with in directing Britten’s rarely performed opera Gloriana, originally composed in honour of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

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Hamburg

30 mars 2013

New Britten production in Hamburg: Gloriana as a village pageant

Par Nahoko Gotoh

Prom 37: Elgar's The Apostles with The Hallé

Par Katherine Dixson, 10 août 2012

If you’ve never been to a grand-scale choral work at the Royal Albert Hall, I’d urge you to do so at the earliest opportunity. This wasn’t my first visit to the Proms, and I’ve experienced oratorios, requiems and passions galore in other places, but to hear hundreds of accomplished singers filling this vast circular space was new territory for me. The hall seemed made for the occasion.

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Londres

10 août 2012

Prom 37: Elgar's The Apostles with The Hallé

Par Katherine Dixson

Leeds

Opera North: Die Walküre

Par Jane Shuttleworth, 16 juin 2012

Opera North’s concert staging of Wagner’s Ring Cycle continued last night with Die Walküre, the “first night” proper of the cycle after the “preliminary evening” of Das Rheingold.

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Leeds

16 juin 2012

Opera North: Die Walküre

Par Jane Shuttleworth

München

Andreas Kriegenburg's Wozzeck: A true masterpiece

Par Max Woods, 06 juin 2012

The plight of the introvert, stigmatised by society despite the many benefits of their contemplative natures and inner strength, is an important part of the contemporary Zeitgeist, but it is in fact nothing new.

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München

06 juin 2012

Andreas Kriegenburg's Wozzeck: A true masterpiece

Par Max Woods

An imaginary Flying Dutchman at ENO

Par David Karlin, 28 avril 2012

Of the various possible ways of conducting Wagner's Flying Dutchman, ENO's Edward Gardner took the direct approach. From the first tremolo string notes, the orchestra launched into the main leitmotif at full tilt, followed by the sound of stormy seas swirling more furiously than you've ever heard them, leaving the audience breathless.

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Londres

28 avril 2012

An imaginary Flying Dutchman at ENO

Par David Karlin

Tales of Hoffmann at the ENO

Par David Karlin, 10 février 2012

Sir, Madam, do you like your opera quirky? A singing mechanical doll? A giant shaving mirror? The Evil Eye itself in a piano? Then welcome to the inebriated, fantastical, phantasmagorical world of E.T.A. Hoffmann, brought to you by Mr. Richard Jones with a delightful musical accompaniment by M. Jacques Offenbach.

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Londres

10 févr. 2012

Tales of Hoffmann at the ENO

Par David Karlin

Manchester

Hallé and Sir Mark Elder: Die Walküre

Par Rohan Shotton, 16 juillet 2011

The Hallé Orchestra, led by Sir Mark Elder, followed their award-winning 2009 Götterdämmerung with a concert performance of Die Walküre over two nights, prefaced by Gerard McBurney’s new work, The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan. With an array of famed soloists, Elder masterminded a triumph, with the magnificent Hallé showing their quality on the concert stage.

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Manchester

16 juil. 2011

Hallé and Sir Mark Elder: Die Walküre

Par Rohan Shotton

Manchester

Die Walküre in concert

Par Richard Wilcocks, 15 juillet 2011

Wagner's Die Walküre was split into two concert performances over two days, the first on one evening and the second on an afternoon and an evening. This review is for both. A spot picks out a man in the Bridgewater Hall’s front row, who steps up to stand by a table in front of the Hallé Orchestra, which is ready to begin. He puts on a braided coat to become Richard Wagner.

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Manchester

15 juil. 2011

Die Walküre in concert

Par Richard Wilcocks

“Such dangerous fascinations” Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera

Par Andrew Benson-Wilson, 30 juin 2011

History has cast a complex light on Wagner’s music and on Wagner the man. But Tristan & Isolde (Wagner’s enormous vision of erotic love) is an opera that can still resonate today. Nietzsche referred to its “dangerous fascinations”, “spine-tingling and blissful infinity“ and “voluptuousness”. This was Grange Park Opera’s first foray into Wagnerian opera.

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Alresford

30 juin 2011

“Such dangerous fascinations” Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera

Par Andrew Benson-Wilson

Grange Park serves up classic tragedy in Rusalka

Par David Karlin, 18 juin 2011

The eponymous heroine of Dvořák’s Rusalka is a water-sprite from the woods and lakes of Middle European fairy-tale, very much the territory familiar to ballet lovers in Giselle and Swan Lake.

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