En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Mark Le Brocq

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Hereford

31 juil. 2025

Coleridge-Taylor’s bloodless passion at the Three Choirs Festival

Par Simon Cummings

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Moreton-in-Marsh

At home with the Wagners: Avner Dorman’s Wahnfried receives its UK premiere

Par Mark Pullinger, 27 mai 2025

Longborough Festival Opera, built on Wagnerian foundations, stages the UK premiere of Avner Dorman’s ambitious cautionary tale about the Wagner clan and establishing the composer’s legacy.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

27 mai 2025

Dorman’s Wahnfried receives its UK premiere at Longborough

Par Mark Pullinger

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Glasgow

From Wales to Scotland, The Makropulos Affair defies the march of time

Par Mark Valencia, 15 février 2025

Orla Boylan’s creation oozes charisma and reeks of entitlement, driven to emotional cruelty by the lassitude of a life too-long lived.

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Glasgow

15 févr. 2025

The Makropulos Affair defies the march of time

Par Mark Valencia

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Moreton-in-Marsh

An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival

Par David Karlin, 18 juin 2024

Who wouldn't relish the chance of seeing a Ring cycle at close quarters? Longborough's Die Walküre isn't perfect, but it consistently delivers on the story and on character interpretation.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

18 juin 2024

An enthralling Walküre at Longborough Opera Festival

Par David Karlin

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Welsh National Opera stages Death in Venice for the first time... and it’s a triumph

Par Mark Valencia, 07 mars 2024

Olivia Fuchs solves the problems of Britten's thorny opera in a brilliant new production that hits the heights, featuring Mark Le Brocq as earthbound scholar, Gustav von Aschenbach.

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Cardiff

07 mars 2024

WNO stages Death in Venice for the first time and it’s a triumph

Par Mark Valencia

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West Horsley

Death-devoted duo: a superb new Tristan und Isolde at Grange Park Opera

Par Roy Westbrook, 08 juin 2023

Charles Edwards' ambitious production is well served by a strong cast as Grange Park Opera opens its season in the Theatre in the Woods.

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West Horsley

08 juin 2023

Death-devoted duo: a superb Tristan und Isolde at Grange Park Opera

Par Roy Westbrook

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Edimbourg

RSNO season begins with marvellous Britten but too pristine Stravinsky

Par Simon Thompson, 30 septembre 2022

Stefan Jackiw makes Britten's Violin Concerto sing, but Thomas Søndergård's RSNO Rite of Spring is too well-behaved and David Fennessy's Riot Act is dull.

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Edimbourg

30 sept. 2022

RSNO season begins with marvellous Britten but too pristine Stravinsky

Par Simon Thompson

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Beware of what you wish for: The Makropulos Affair at Welsh National Opera

Par David Karlin, 16 septembre 2022

Olivia Fuchs gives a powerful staging of Janáček's morality tale of the perils of eternal youth, with an excellent cast, but there are reservations about the title role.

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Cardiff

16 sept. 2022

Beware of what you wish for: The Makropulos Affair at WNO

Par David Karlin

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Grimeborn delivers a wholly satisfying Half Ring at Hackney Empire

Par Roy Westbrook, 06 août 2022

Using Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick's distillations of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, the company concluded its miniature Ring cycle in under five hours, without sacrificing musical or dramatic tension.

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Londres

06 août 2022

Grimeborn delivers a wholly satisfying Half Ring at Hackney Empire

Par Roy Westbrook

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West Horsley

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

Glasgow

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe, 22 février 2020

Scottish Opera’s Nixon in China in a stylish, living history production from John Fulljames, with strong performances across the board, Joana Carneiro stoking the fires in the pit.

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Glasgow

22 févr. 2020

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe

War and Peace: Welsh National Opera comes to London to parade its wares

Par Mark Valencia, 23 juillet 2019

It’s a small miracle that the production has been recreated so well in such a short time frame.

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Londres

23 juil. 2019

War and Peace: WNO comes to London to parade its wares

Par Mark Valencia

Glasgow

Anthropocene: a timely chiller from Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe, 26 janvier 2019

Climate change, challenged egos and a strange Ice woman tell a gruesome tale in Anthropocene, a finely sung new opera from Stuart MacRae, with libretto from Louise Welsh, set in the Arctic with a cinematic score.

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Glasgow

26 janv. 2019

Anthropocene: a timely chiller from Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe

The Silver Tassie makes a triumphant return

Par Stephen Pritchard, 10 novembre 2018

Mark-Anthony Turnage's First World War opera both moves and dazzles at the Barbican.

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Londres

10 nov. 2018

The Silver Tassie makes a triumphant return

Par Stephen Pritchard

Ferocious intensity: David Pountney's new War and Peace at Welsh National Opera

Par Rohan Shotton, 15 septembre 2018

WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.

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Cardiff

15 sept. 2018

Ferocious intensity: Pountney's new War and Peace at WNO

Par Rohan Shotton

Crime, punishment, forgiveness, redemption: Dead Man Walking finally reaches London

Par David Karlin, 20 février 2018

Jake Heggie's spectacular vocal writing combine with Terence McNally's perfectly paced libretto to provide intense music drama which forces you to confront darkness.

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Londres

20 févr. 2018

Crime, punishment, forgiveness, redemption: Dead Man Walking finally reaches London

Par David Karlin

An arresting From the House of the Dead at Welsh National Opera

Par Rohan Shotton, 08 octobre 2017

David Pountney's House of the Dead makes for high entertainment at Welsh National Opera.

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Cardiff

08 oct. 2017

An arresting From the House of the Dead

Par Rohan Shotton

Stark and spellbinding: Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina leads WNO's Russian season

Par Katherine Cooper, 23 septembre 2017

Welsh National Opera’s new season commemorating the centenary of the 1917 Revolution with three Russian-themed works opens with both a bang and a whimper with this trenchant revival.

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Cardiff

23 sept. 2017

Stark and spellbinding: Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

Par Katherine Cooper

Dublin

A deeply moving Dream of Gerontius: Markson plumbs the depths with soloists and NSO

Par Andrew Larkin, 19 mai 2017

Mark Le Brocq portrays a convincing Gerontius while other soloists, choir and orchestra deliver a fine, moving performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

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Dublin

19 mai 2017

A deeply moving Dream of Gerontius

Par Andrew Larkin

Simply brilliant: Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus at Sadler’s Wells

Par Matthew Rye, 11 novembre 2016

The first UK production of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1930s anti-war opera Simplicius Simplicissimus is a musical and dramatic triumph, and as pertinent as ever

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Londres

11 nov. 2016

Simply brilliant: Simplicius Simplicissimus

Par Matthew Rye

All that glitters: Tchaikowsky's The Merchant of Venice staged by Welsh National Opera

Par Simon Rees, 16 septembre 2016

André Tchaikowsky's version of The Merchant of Venice combines his love of Shakespeare with his recollections of a harsh childhood as a Jew in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Cardiff

16 sept. 2016

All that glitters: WNO stages The Merchant of Venice

Par Simon Rees

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Dipping a toe into the Rhine: Wagner therapy from Opera North

Par Mark Pullinger, 28 juin 2016

Opera North's cycle offers a form of personal Wagner therapy: all four music dramas in concert performances, but with carefully choreographed video and lighting effects.

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Londres

28 juin 2016

Dipping a toe into the Rhine

Par Mark Pullinger

From the Somme's trenches: Iain Bell's In Parenthesis opens at Welsh National Opera

Par Simon Rees, 13 mai 2016

David Jones' First World War epic poem comes to musical life in Iain Bell's newly-commissioned opera.

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Cardiff

13 mai 2016

From the Somme's trenches: Iain Bell's In Parenthesis

Par Simon Rees

Leeds

Opera North's exciting Der fliegende Holländer at Leeds Town Hall

Par Richard Wilcocks, 27 juin 2015

Der fliegende Holländer at Leeds Town Hall shows Opera North at its most exciting, in a production conducted by Richard Farnes, with Béla Perencz and Alwyn Mellor.

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Leeds

27 juin 2015

Opera North's exciting Der fliegende Holländer

Par Richard Wilcocks

Leaving J.M.Barrie dangling: High-flying Peter Pan at Welsh National Opera

Par Simon Rees, 16 mai 2015

Richard Ayres's Peter Pan, in a new WNO production, leaves J.M. Barrie's story dangling.

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Cardiff

16 mai 2015

High-flying Peter Pan at WNO

Par Simon Rees

Usher House double bill fails to stand up

Par Simon Rees, 13 juin 2014

How does Usher House stand up? Like the house, it doesn’t. Welsh National Opera's double bill based on The Fall of the House of Usher underwhelms.

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Cardiff

13 juin 2014

Usher House double bill fails to stand up

Par Simon Rees

Scant Sodom, no Gomorrah, but a riveting Moses und Aron

Par Simon Rees, 24 mai 2014

A riveting performance of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, despite the absence of the golden calf, the burning bush, Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Cardiff

24 mai 2014

Scant Sodom but a riveting Moses und Aron

Par Simon Rees

Leeds

Opera North's triumphant Peter Grimes returns to Leeds

Par Richard Wilcocks, 14 septembre 2013

A very welcome and triumphant revival of Peter Grimes begins Opera North’s Festival of Britten season, soon to be followed by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Death in Venice. The work has often been described as Britten’s greatest, the paeans of praise beginning soon after its first performance just after the Second World War, often involving the word “enigma”.

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Leeds

14 sept. 2013

Opera North's triumphant Peter Grimes returns to Leeds

Par Richard Wilcocks

Edimbourg

Opera North's production première of The Makropulos Case at the Edinburgh Festival

Par David Smythe, 11 août 2012

The strange yet compelling story of the 350-year-old opera singer Elina Makropulos was Opera North’s showcase in a production première at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. Leoš Janáček wrote The Makropulos Affair, his penultimate opera, based on the Karel Čapek play about Elina Makropulos, who was given a potion to preserve her youth when she was sixteen.

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