En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Roderick Williams

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Bruxelles

17 févr. 2022

Un Requiem en lumière pour Kristiina Poska à Bozar

Par Valentin Gautron Lavarone

Paris

Elias en quête de grandeur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Par Philippe Ramin, 08 octobre 2019

Grand spécialiste du baroque allemand, Masaaki Suzuki est très attentif à son Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment en petite forme. Robert Murray se distingue dans une distribution de qualité.

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Paris

11 oct. 2019

Elias en quête de grandeur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Par Philippe Ramin

Rome

Sir Antonio Pappano dirige une grandiose Passion selon saint Jean à l’Auditorium Parco della Musica

Par Emma Granier, 13 avril 2017

L'orchestre et le chœur de santa Cecilia ont marqué la fin de la Semaine Sainte d'un grand moment de musique et de spiritualité avec ce bel hommage au Cantor de Leipzig.

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Rome

18 avril 2017

Grandiose "Passion selon saint Jean" à Rome

Par Emma Granier

Lyon

Admirable optimisme berlinois : le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester rayonnent de joie dans le Weihnachtsoratorium de Bach

Par Beate Langenbruch, 20 décembre 2016

Chanter parce qu’on croit à la liberté et qu’on veut affirmer sa valeur : le lendemain de l’attentat sur un marché de Noël à Berlin, le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester souls la direction de Hans-Christoph Rademann ont dédié un magnifique concert à la mémoire des victimes.

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Lyon

24 déc. 2016

Le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester rayonnent de joie à Lyon

Par Beate Langenbruch

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Utrecht

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius with Canellakis and the Netherlands RPO

Par Clare Varney, 13 juin 2025

British vocal talent adds some very British glamour to the closing Avrotros Friday concert featuring Elgar's most famous oratorio.

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Utrecht

15 juin 2025

Williams and Cargill shine in The Dream of Gerontius

Par Clare Varney

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High Wycombe

Three card trick: staging, direction and singing compel in Garsington’s Queen of Spades

Par Roy Westbrook, 29 mai 2025

Jack Furness directs a terrific new Queen of Spades at Garsington – haunting and harrowing.

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High Wycombe

30 mai 2025

Three card trick: compelling new Queen of Spades at Garsington

Par Roy Westbrook

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Flight of Icarus: perception-altering Shostakovich from Serebrennikov and Petrenko

Par Mark Pullinger, 27 avril 2025

As part of the Southbank Centre's Multitudes festival, Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony is given a stunning visual direction by Kirill Serebrennikov to match the RPO's gripping playing.

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Londres

27 avril 2025

Perception-altering Shostakovich from Serebrennikov and Petrenko

Par Mark Pullinger

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform moving Fauré

Par David Smythe, 27 février 2025

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform Fauré moving Requiem and Vaughan Williams Mystical Songs with the SCO Chorus and Roderick Williams.

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Edimbourg

28 févr. 2025

Scottish Chamber Orchestra perform moving Fauré

Par David Smythe

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Philadelphia

Bumpy love songs from Roderick Williams and Julius Drake at PCMS

Par Cameron Kelsall, 12 février 2025

A fully produced performance of Brahms' Die schӧne Magelone in Philadelphia, complete with on-stage narrator and bespoke drawings, proved less than the sum of its parts.

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Philadelphia

13 févr. 2025

Bumpy love songs from Roderick Williams and Julius Drake at PCMS

Par Cameron Kelsall

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Sakari Oramo and spellbinding soloists in a memorable Dream of Gerontius

Par Mark Valencia, 13 décembre 2024

A solo trio of David Butt Philip, Dame Sarah Connolly and Roderick Williams draw on extensive stage experience to inhabit their roles in a naturally assured, vividly communicative fashion.

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Londres

16 déc. 2024

A memorable Dream of Gerontius from the BBCSO and Sakari Oramo

Par Mark Valencia

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An outstanding Elijah from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev

Par David Smythe, 09 mai 2024

An outstanding Elijah from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus with Maxim Emelyanychev, headed up by Roderick Williams, with Carolyn Sampson, Rowan Pierce, Anna Stéphany and Thomas Walker.

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Edimbourg

10 mai 2024

An outstanding Elijah from SCO and Maxim Emelyanychev

Par David Smythe

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Let there be light: UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux at the Barbican

Par David Truslove, 15 mars 2024

A thoughtfully conceived and well-executed BBCSO programme, if not gaining more than the sum of its respective parts.

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Londres

18 mars 2024

Let there be light: UK premiere of Sir James MacMillan’s Fiat Lux

Par David Truslove

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Cardiff

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

09 mars 2024

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

Par Mark Valencia

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More than cribs and tinsel: MacMillan’s dramatic Christmas Oratorio receives Scottish premiere

Par David Smythe, 24 novembre 2023

The composer conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus with Roderick Williams and Rhian Lois in Edinburgh's Usher Hall.

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Edimbourg

26 nov. 2023

More than cribs and tinsel: MacMillan’s dramatic Christmas Oratorio

Par David Smythe

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Liverpool

A superb Child of Our Time in Liverpool

Par Peter Connors, 24 juin 2023

Soloists, choir and orchestra combine under Martyn Brabbins to create a powerful performance of Tippett's secular oratorio.

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Liverpool

25 juin 2023

A superb Child of Our Time in Liverpool

Par Peter Connors

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Snape

Sally Beamish song cycle lights up Sinfonia of London's Aldeburgh Festival debut

Par Roy Westbrook, 17 juin 2023

A programme of orchestral showpieces are given the John Wilson treatment, although Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances disappoints.

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Snape

18 juin 2023

Sally Beamish lights up Sinfonia of London's Aldeburgh Festival debut

Par Roy Westbrook

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A double act: Roderick Williams delivers Mahler two ways at Wigmore Hall

Par Alexander Hall, 19 novembre 2022

Robert and Clara were not the only two-composer family. So were Alma and Gustav. The Nash Ensemble's latest programme highlights Beethoven and the Romantics.

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Londres

20 nov. 2022

A double act: Roderick Williams delivers Mahler two ways

Par Alexander Hall

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A magnificent Sea Symphony from the Bach Choir and David Hill

Par David Truslove, 17 novembre 2022

A memorable evening of superb music-making at the Royal Festival Hall, illuminating two well-known Vaughan Williams scores and shining a light on a seldom performed rarity.

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Londres

21 nov. 2022

A magnificent Sea Symphony from the Bach Choir

Par David Truslove

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Transcendent programme from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth

Par Roy Westbrook, 10 août 2022

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Wigglesworth were heaven-storming in Prom 33, offering celestial visions from Strauss and Holst.

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Londres

11 août 2022

Transcendent programme from the BBCSO and Ryan Wigglesworth

Par Roy Westbrook

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Roderick Williams captures the passion of youth with energetic immediacy at Kings Place

Par Nick Boston, 05 mai 2022

The baritone explores the extremes of youthful emotion in a varied programme of song with pianist Paul Cibis in the Voices Unwrapped season.

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Londres

06 mai 2022

Roderick Williams captures the passion of youth at Kings Place

Par Nick Boston

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Manchester

Premier League Vaughan Williams from The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

Par Rohan Shotton, 30 avril 2022

Memorable performances of Vaughan Williams' darkest and brightest symphonies at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

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Manchester

03 mai 2022

Premier League Vaughan Williams from The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder

Par Rohan Shotton

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Biblical inspirations for Edward Gardner and the LPO

Par Alexander Hall, 02 avril 2022

The constituent parts made up a contrasting and stimulating whole: works by Lili Boulanger, Messiaen and Brahms, united by biblical inspiration. Edward Gardner marshalled the collective London Philharmonic forces.

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Londres

03 avril 2022

Biblical inspirations for Edward Gardner and the LPO

Par Alexander Hall

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New York

Michel van der Aa's Upload questions the meaning of life... and of opera

Par Kurt Gottschalk, 22 mars 2022

Does opera have room for film? And live video? Multiple screens and advertorials? And allusions to onscreen identity and cyber-immortality?

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New York

24 mars 2022

Upload questions the meaning of life... and of opera

Par Kurt Gottschalk

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Liverpool

Roderick Williams’ emotional Rückert-Lieder in Liverpool

Par Leighton Jones, 10 mars 2022

In a rather mixed and unconventional programme, Roderick Williams and Amarins Wierdsman provide the highlights of a programme of variable success in Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall.

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Liverpool

12 mars 2022

Roderick Williams’ emotional Rückert-Lieder in Liverpool

Par Leighton Jones

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Haydn's Creation and the LSO sing “Happy Birthday” to the Barbican

Par Roy Westbrook, 03 mars 2022

It is rare for the LSO to take a literal and metaphorical back seat at one of their own concerts, but they supplied every instrumental need in Haydn's joyous oratorio.

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Londres

04 mars 2022

Haydn's Creation and the LSO sing “Happy Birthday” to the Barbican

Par Roy Westbrook

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Worthy to sit beside Bach? Elder and the LPO play Sir James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio

Par David Karlin, 04 décembre 2021

The LPO and London Philharmonic Choir are on outstanding form for a new major choral work to tell the Christmas story.

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Londres

05 déc. 2021

Worthy to sit beside Bach? MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio

Par David Karlin

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Amsterdam

Intime Zukunftsmusik: Michel van der Aas Upload in Amsterdam

Par Michael Klier, 01 octobre 2021

Michel van der Aa zwingt das Publikum, sich mit der zukünftigen Möglichkeit, ewiges Lebens mittels AGI zu gewinnen, auseinanderzusetzen.

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Amsterdam

03 oct. 2021

Intime Zukunftsmusik: Michel van der Aas Upload in Amsterdam

Par Michael Klier

Musik am richtigen Platz: Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium bei Live from London

Par Jens Klier, 06 janvier 2021

Paul McCreesh fand mit seinem Ensemble eine herzerwärmende Mischung universell wohltuender Festlichkeit.

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Londres

06 janv. 2021

Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium am richtigen Platz bei Live from London

Par Jens Klier

Manchester

Tears for transience: Roderick Williams sings Butterworth with The Hallé

Par Roy Westbrook, 11 décembre 2020

Its theme of the passing of everything from cherry blossom to opera houses made this a programme for the artistic perils of our time.

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Manchester

11 déc. 2020

Tears for transience: Roderick Williams sings Butterworth

Par Roy Westbrook

In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Par Stephen Pritchard, 20 octobre 2020

Handel’s Italian cantata Apollo and Daphne is enjoying a Covid wave, perfect as it is for socially-distanced singing.

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Londres

21 oct. 2020

In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the OAE

Par Stephen Pritchard

Oxford

In the footsteps of Hafez: exploring Persian poetry at Oxford Lieder

Par Mark Pullinger, 11 octobre 2020

A deep-dive into the world of 14th-century Persian poet, Hafez, and his influence on song across the centuries.

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Oxford

11 oct. 2020

In the footsteps of Hafez: exploring Persian poetry at Oxford Lieder

Par Mark Pullinger

Pulling the heart strings: Madam Butterfly returns to ENO

Par Dominic Lowe, 26 février 2020

Anthony Minghella's classic production of Madam Butterfly makes a welcome return with a sensational role debut by Natalya Romaniw as Cio-Cio-San.

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Londres

28 févr. 2020

Pulling the heart strings: Madam Butterfly returns to ENO

Par Dominic Lowe

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

01 déc. 2019

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

Par Matthew Rye

Aix-en-Provence

Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities: Michel van der Aa’s Blank Out at Festival d’Aix

Par Pwyll ap Sion, 13 juillet 2019

In his 2016 opera Blank Out, Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has managed to create a new kind of operatic ‘reality’ that resonates powerfully with today’s Zeitgeist. Highly recommended.

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Aix-en-Provence

14 juil. 2019

Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities at Festival d’Aix

Par Pwyll ap Sion

Hamburg

Wie man Leiden in Bewegung setzt: Bachs Johannes-Passion in der Elbphilharmonie

Par Sarah Schnoor, 06 avril 2019

Sellars und Rattle schaffen einen Raum und Klang, der Bach mit seiner Deutung einer der bekanntesten Erzählungen der Welt lebendig werden lässt.

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Hamburg

10 avril 2019

Wie man Leiden in Bewegung setzt: Bachs Johannes-Passion in Hamburg

Par Sarah Schnoor

Star-studded, searing Bach at the Royal Festival Hall

Par Benjamin Poore, 02 avril 2019

Challenging and vivid Bach in the first UK showing of Peter Sellars' staging of Bach's great liturgical masterpiece.

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Londres

03 avril 2019

Star-studded, searing Bach at the Royal Festival Hall

Par Benjamin Poore

Britten Sinfonia's electric Messiah: Look, no hands!

Par Stephen Pritchard, 19 décembre 2018

A conductorless performance of Handel's masterpiece lights up the Barbican.

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Londres

20 déc. 2018

Britten Sinfonia's electric Messiah: Look, no hands!

Par Stephen Pritchard

Inspiration eludes Kramer in Britten's War Requiem at English National Opera

Par Mark Valencia, 16 novembre 2018

The music’s explosions of volume have an open-throated magnificence.

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Londres

18 nov. 2018

Inspiration eludes Kramer in Britten's War Requiem at ENO

Par Mark Valencia

Darkness and pain in Mark Padmore's St Matthew Passion

Par Benjamin Poore, 26 mars 2018

A brooding and melancholy presentation of Bach’s masterpiece from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mark Padmore.

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Londres

28 mars 2018

Darkness and pain in Mark Padmore's St Matthew Passion

Par Benjamin Poore

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

Par David Karlin, 10 janvier 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 janv. 2018

Monteverdi on a doughnut: Ulysses fails to thrill

Par David Karlin

Oundjian's Brahms disappoints, but Hadelich's Dvořák takes off in Edinburgh

Par Simon Thompson, 01 décembre 2017

Hadelich dazzles, but Oundjian's Brahms is bland.

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Edimbourg

01 déc. 2017

Oundjian's Brahms disappoints in Edinburgh

Par Simon Thompson

To the field of blood: Sally Beamish's The Judas Passion

Par Benjamin Poore, 25 septembre 2017

Suffering, forgiveness, and natural brass in a brand new dramatic oratorio

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Londres

28 sept. 2017

To the field of blood: The Judas Passion

Par Benjamin Poore

Roderick Williams’ charming birdcatcher leads a spirited revival of The Magic Flute at Covent Garden

Par Mark Pullinger, 14 septembre 2017

In Thomas Guthrie’s revival of Sir David McVicar’s sober 2003 production of Mozart’s Singspiel, it was the pantomime elements of the show which registered strongly.

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Londres

15 sept. 2017

A spirited revival of The Magic Flute at Covent Garden

Par Mark Pullinger

Snape

Opera North sails in to the Aldeburgh Festival with a buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Par Mark Valencia, 24 juin 2017

At the opera’s great climaxes Suffolk’s famous wood-and-brick building could barely contain it.

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Snape

25 juin 2017

A buoyant revival of Billy Budd

Par Mark Valencia

Bergen

Psychologically splintered: Stuart Skelton leads a stellar Peter Grimes in Bergen

Par Mark Valencia, 30 mai 2017

This Peter Grimes was a tale of two talents: the conductor and the star.

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Bergen

31 mai 2017

A stellar Peter Grimes in Bergen

Par Mark Valencia

Birmingham

John Wilson and the CBSO present British classics with a difference

Par Hedy Mühleck, 01 mars 2017

A pleasant afternoon's entertainment with grand sweeps and some beautiful singing by Roderick Williams.

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Birmingham

02 mars 2017

British Classics with a difference

Par Hedy Mühleck

Glasgow

Food for thought in Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper

Par David Smythe, 14 janvier 2017

An excellent performance of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Last Supper receiving its Scottish première, with Roderick Williams and Susan Bickley heading a luxury cast.

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Glasgow

15 janv. 2017

Food for thought: Birtwistle’s The Last Supper

Par David Smythe

Vienne

Auf, preiset die Tage: Weihnachtsoratorium im Wiener Konzerthaus

Par Katharina Hogrefe, 22 décembre 2016

In einer rundum gelungene Aufführung der Teile I-III und VI wurden der RIAS Kammerchor und das Freiburger Barockorchester durch vier feinsinnge Solisten ergänzt.

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Vienne

23 déc. 2016

Auf, preiset die Tage: Weihnachtsoratorium im Wiener Konzerthaus

Par Katharina Hogrefe

Leeds

Opera North's intensely dramatic Billy Budd in Leeds

Par Richard Wilcocks, 18 octobre 2016

Opera North's production of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, directed by Orpha Phelan, is a tense psychological drama which puts the emphasis on issues of democracy and attitudes to dictatorship.

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Leeds

19 oct. 2016

Opera North's intensely dramatic Billy Budd

Par Richard Wilcocks

Prom 3: The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge revitalises Fauré’s Requiem

Par Kathryn Wareham, 17 juillet 2016

The legendary Kings College Choir, Cambridge, conducted by their very own Stephen Cleobury, was accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on period instruments at the Royal Albert Hall.

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