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Menée par le trio Tézier-Kaufmann-Radvanovsky, une exécution musicale superbe confère à l'œuvre de Verdi toute l'émotion incandescente dont la prive singulièrement la mise en scène, signée Lotte de Beer.

Cantatrices en tête, un casting vocal prestigieux (Radvanovsky, Rachvelishvili, Alvarez, Lucic) assure le succès du célèbre opéra de Giuseppe Verdi. La mise en scène d'Alex Ollé déçoit.

Fallait-il condamner la simplicité de l’intrigue à tant de simplisme esthétique ? Retour sur Un bal masqué où l’expressivité, les nuances et l’ambiguïté seront à rechercher chez les interprètes. 

Simon Boccanegra, opéra encore à la marge en regard des autres productions verdiennes, retrouve ici tout son panache grâce au talent d’une équipe artistique sans faille réunie par l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo. 

Loin de toute la monumentalité qui a pu rendre indigestes les belles mélopées et accents verdiens, souvent cantonnées aux grandes pompes et à un logos lourdement orientaliste, cet opéra à l’écriture pourtant raffinée, et à la profondeur mésestimée, méritait une telle relecture.

Antonino Fogliani conducts a concert performance of Bellini's rare bel canto opera. 

Un gran último reparto, encabezado por Sondra Radvanovsky, para Un ballo in maschera que abre temporada en el Real y una torpe propuesta escénica.

Es de agradecer el compromiso y el esfuerzo que el Teatro Real ha llevado a cabo, intentando demostrar como es posible programar y realizar eventos culturales en tiempos convulsos.

The French-Sicilian tenor shines in Sir David's McVicar's pristine take on Umberto Giordano's slice of verismo. 

This revival of the Met's 30-year-old production of Aida had a disappointing debut in the title role but Dolora Zajick's reign as Amneris is still a force of nature.

Un espectacular cartel de cantantes convierte a este Andrea Chénier en el acontecimiento de la temporada. 

Sondra Radvanovsky scores a rousing success in the taxing title role of Bellini's masterpiece in New York.

That both the lead and a second key role were ill and couldn’t sing did not bode well, yet this performance of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera shook up the house nonetheless.

For her London recital debut, Sondra Radvanovsky offered a varied programme of ranging from Bellini to Barber, showing off the technique with which she has dazzled American audiences.

In the end, Newbury’s production leaves you with more questions than it answers. 

Kent's staging brings out the sleaze in Puccini's first big hit; Sondra Radvanovsky thrills in the title role; the musical performance improves through the evening.

Die Tosca der Bayerischen Staatsoper lässt durch ihre simple Inszenierung den Sängern viel Raum für Gestaltung, der gut genutzt wurde.

Sondra Radvanovsky tackles another Donizetti queen - Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux - at The Met. 

A brilliant revival of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda at The Met centres on the dramatic confrontation between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart at Fotheringhay. 

In Anna Bolena, Sondra Radvanovsky plays a queen who loses her crown. But she approaches a different coronation: as the first to play three of Donizetti's Tudor Queens at the Met.

A good staging and good acting aren't enough to make up for musical shortcomings of the Bayerische Staatsoper's Norma. 

American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is the reason to see Anna Bolena, though the production provides plenty of other reasons to stay. 

L'Opéra de San Francisco ouvre sa 92è saison avec Norma de Bellini, avec Sondra Radvanovsky dans le rôle de Norma et Jamie Barton dans celui d'Adalgisa.

The Royal Opera House revives Jonathan Kent's traditional production, but with a crucial lack of magnetism between hero and heroine, Puccini's taut thriller feels somewhat muzzled.

With smart direction, elegant design, and vocal fireworks, the Canadian Opera Company's Roberto Devereux offers a complex portrait of a much-loved historical figure.

When the Met estimated the timing for Norma, Bellini’s familiar bel canto opera included in their fall repertory this year, they did not factor in the ongoing applause for soprano Sondra Radvanovsky.

Read our review of David Alden’s production of Verdi­'s Un Ballo in Maschera in its 2012 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York. 

Verdi experts regularly name Un ballo in maschera to be one of his finest works. In spite of this, it’s never reached the heights of popularity of La Traviata or Rigoletto, so a new production by an acclaimed director for a major opera house is a notable event. We watched David Alden’s New York Ballo from the comfort of a London cinema under the Met’s Live in HD series.

Ladies and gentlemen of Washington DC and the nearby lands!If last fall you did not get a chance to journey to New York for the Met’s season-opening production of Anna Bolena – do not fret! Last Saturday the Washington National Opera opened its new season with a production of Anna Bolena (a little too bloody for a season opening if you ask me, but maybe that’s what attracts most people to opera th

In our youth, my brother and I adored Cecil B. DeMille’s epic film The Ten Commandments. Not only did we like the well-written and brilliant take on the beloved biblical story of Moses, but we were also fascinated by the lavish sets and historical aspects of the film.

Read our review of David McVicar's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore in its 2011 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.

If the painstaking recreation of Rome during the Napoleonic Wars is stripped away from the setting of Tosca. If choral numbers, sparing to begin with, are muted as distant drumbeats. If the title character is reinterpreted as a country girl with little artifice rather than a grand diva whose sheer confidence and sexuality prove irresistible to men.

“Hate breeds hate.” I cannot possibly count all the times that I have heard this alarmingly true statement during my entire lifetime be it from my parents, mentors, or other individuals that I have encoutered. Indeed, this statement has proven too true countless times throughout the history of mankind, becoming a perennial favorite theme for artistic works ranging from novels to plays.