En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Alice Coote

Pas impressionné par le challenge, le jeune chef portugais a dirigé une Neuvième Symphonie impressionnante, où le Monteverdi Choir a brillé de mille feux.

En commençant son cycle Beethoven par la Sixième Symphonie, le jeune chef portugais à la tête de l'Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique n'a pas choisi la facilité. Et pourtant...

Kirill Petrenko donnait en version de concert au TCE l'opéra qu'il dirigera bientôt sur scène à Munich, avec le même cast. Il avait cependant une guest star de luxe, le Bacchus de Jonas Kaufmann. Une soirée où la musique était à la fête et où le théâtre était quand même présent.

Unter der Leitung des Dirigenten Leonardo García-Alarcón präsentieren der Chœur de chambre de Namur, das Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra und ein buntes Solistenquintett eine uneinheitliche Deutung von Bachs Sakralwerk.

Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 

Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the LSO with more Mahler, this time the mighty Resurrection Symphony which finds the conductor in glowing form. 

Alice Coote imbues every word of Mahler’s deeply affecting song-cycle with expressive intensity. Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra struggle to match that achievement in Brahms and Schoenberg.

Sometimes you just wish that circumstances had been different, fate kinder. Michael Tilson Thomas with the London Symphony Orchestra was not in full control of Mahler's mighty Third Symphony.

John Wilson brings the best out of both Holst's music and the players of the RSNO, though Alice Coote fails to hit the heights in Elgar's Sea Pictures. 

One opera conductor gives way to another to play music by one of the greatest of all opera conductors: Mahler's mighty Third Symphony.

Handel's last oratorio is stylishly set in the composer’s era, with an all-star cast of Handelian singers who give their all.

Dinis Sousa doesn't put a foot wrong as the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir give a performance of startling virtuosity at the end of a European tour. 

Im Interview versprach Gardiner Emotionalität und Überraschung. In der Auffühung kam sie mit Assistent Sousa daher, der letztlich den bombastisch grandiosen Berlioz-Höhepunkt von ORR und Monteverdi Choir anerkennend rettete.

David Afkham sale victorioso, aunque no ileso, de la titánica tarea que supone dirigir la Octava de Mahler, al cierre de la temporada de la OCNE, con una primera parte no del todo consistente y una segunda dominada por una orquesta entregada y unas voces notables.

Sir Mark Elder opens his mini Elgar festival with a deeply spirtual Dream of Gerontius.

John Dexter's production, now among the longest-serving in the company's repertory, remains a marvel of simple, effective storytelling.

John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London give a masterclass in musical perfection in works by Walton, Ravel, Gershwin and Dutilleux.

Soprano and mezzo Natalya Romaniw and Alice Coote top a strong line-up in Verdi's Requiem in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

Dead air swallows the acoustic, so it’s no wonder this orchestra and choir is busy raising funds to build its own concert hall in Oslo.

A memorable performance of Mahler's epic Third Symphony at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.

Pianist Julius Drake and his two singers probe the audience’s collective soul with the depth of their Mahler performances. 

Alice Coote is totally mesmerising in Britten's cantata Phaedra in a concert stream from London's Southbank.  

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla approached the Eighth with a clear vision of the music’s structure and a plan to free the life that teems beneath its mighty vaults.

Tilson Thomas has form with Berlioz: the full forces of the LSO and London Symphony Chorus built up to a noble blaze

Beklemmend, aber auch komisch zeigt Kosky, wie wirkungsvoll Betrug doch ist; Ähnlichkeiten mit lebenden Personen sind dabei nicht beabsichtigt, aber unvermeidlich.

Mark Elder conducts Mahler 2 with The Hallé in a measured but utterly compelling performance at Bridgewater Hall

There was a tingle to this concert, as if musicians and audience alike saw clearly for the first time what riches lie ahead.

Laurent Pelly’s staging provided some of the most memorable moments in this performance of Cendrillon. 

Adès opera resists explanation, and the ambiguity of the story drives much of its compelling nature. 

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.

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

Sir Mark Elder's 70th birthday Gurre-Lieder threatens to dislodge the roof in Manchester with the combined forces of the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic

A probing, exultant and musically tireless performance from The English COncert.

In einer konzertanten Aufführung hat sich The English Concert unter der Leitung von Harry Bicket in der Elbphilharmonie der Händeloper gewidmet und bot mit einem Sänger-Ensemble eine rasante und gefühlsbetonte Barockoper der Spitzenklasse.

Mozart's Idomeneo proved to be a challenge for some of the soloists initially but the superb orchestra under James Levine brought about a successful opening evening at the Met.

Renée Fleming has decided the time is right to bow out gracefully from the operatic stage, choosing her signature role to bid the fondest of farewells to London.

A strange combination of a Berlioz overture, a commemorative work and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Hallé, Sir Mark Elder, Alice Coote, Gregory Kunde and Leonard Elschenbroich.

A well-crafted programme at Symphony Hall showcasing the best of English music from the first half of the last century.

The sheer contrast between each movement, the ferocity of the orchestra and the dynamism of Vasily Petrenko made for a whirlpool of a performance – dangerous, dark and occasionally tranquil. 

Mit Ariadne auf Naxos von Richard Strauss zeigt die Bayerische Staatsoper, dass auch eine Wiederaufnahme für musikalische Höhepunkte sorgen kann.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in a fine account of Verdi's Requiem at the Bridgewater Hall

The English Concert play beautifully, the chorus is in superb voice, but a disjointed cast of unconvincing singers mean Hercules never reaches heroic heights.

El Teatro Real recupera la brillante partitura de Humperdinck en una sólida función que no oculta la oscuridad de esta ópera infantil para adultos

Alice Coote and Elizabeth Watts soar gloriously from the emotional heart of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony in a powerful performance from the LPO directed by Andrés Orozco-Estrada.

A star-studded Alcina delights at the Barbican, though remains less than the sum of its considerable parts. 

One of the pleasures of the BBC Proms is to survey the current state of our regional orchestras and I was really looking forward to the Hallé's visit with Mark Elder. Yet, at the end of the concert, I felt curiously unfulfilled.

A fine cast and a traditional staging of a beloved classic results in a memorable night at the opera.

A superb concert performance of Der Rosenkavalier with the CBSO and Andris Nelsons receives a rapturous reception. 

What happens when a hero comes home? The exploration of this question forms the basis of director Peter Sellars’ new production of Hercules at the Canadian Opera Company.