En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Ryan Speedo Green

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Paris

19 janv. 2023

Un Tristan sans Isolde à l’Opéra de Paris

Par Erwan Gentric

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Lenox

As usual, Beethoven ushers out the Boston Symphony season at Tanglewood

Par Cameron Kelsall, 24 août 2025

The season-ending performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loses its intended conductor but remains enjoyable, if somewhat under-rehearsed.

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Lenox

24 août 2025

As usual, Beethoven ushers out the BSO season at Tanglewood

Par Cameron Kelsall

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Glyndebourne

Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Par Peter Quantrill, 17 mai 2025

Compelling singers carry the day in the Glyndebourne Festival Opera's first staging of Wagner’s swansong.

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Glyndebourne

19 mai 2025

Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal

Par Peter Quantrill

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Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

Par Susan Stempleski, 11 mars 2025

Fifteen years after its Dallas Opera world premiere, Jake Heggie’s grand adaptation of Herman Melville’s sprawling epic arrives in New York in a stunning production with a standout cast.

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New York

12 mars 2025

Heggie’s newly staged Moby Dick lands triumphantly at the Met

Par Susan Stempleski

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Metropolitan Opera revives a cartoonish Frau ohne Schatten

Par Cameron Kelsall, 29 novembre 2024

Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's ode to humanity, returning after an eleven-year absence, suffers from generalized acting and inconsistent musical values.

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New York

30 nov. 2024

Metropolitan Opera revives a cartoonish Frau ohne Schatten

Par Cameron Kelsall

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Il trovatore returns to the Met with an impressive young cast

Par Susan Stempleski, 29 octobre 2024

Four superstars deliver dramatic moments in this revival of Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired staging of Verdi’s melodrama.

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New York

31 oct. 2024

Il trovatore returns to the Met with an impressive young cast

Par Susan Stempleski

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Boston

“The indescribable is here accomplished”: Nelsons conducts Mahler 8 in Boston

Par Kevin Wells, 04 octobre 2024

A well thought-out, fearless, affirmation of hope which drew its listeners ever upwards into the realm of ecstasy.

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Boston

06 oct. 2024

Nelsons conducts Mahler 8 in Boston

Par Kevin Wells

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Montreal

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain celebrate their silver anniversary

Par Ian Cochrane, 22 septembre 2024

Montreal's Orchestre Métropolitain launches its season with a Bruckner Ninth that includes both an orchestral introduction and a choral finale.

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Montreal

24 sept. 2024

Nézet-Séguin and Orchestre Métropolitain celebrate silver anniversary

Par Ian Cochrane

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French flair, American-style: Carrie Cracknell's Carmen returns to the Met

Par Kevin W Ng, 25 avril 2024

An excellent cast led by Clémentine Margaine livens up the first revival of Carrie Cracknell's all-American Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera.

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New York

26 avril 2024

French flair, American-style: Cracknell's Carmen returns to the Met

Par Kevin W Ng

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Terence Blanchard’s problematic Fire Shut Up in My Bones returns to the Met

Par Susan Stempleski, 08 avril 2024

An exceptionally strong cast, led by Ryan Speedo Green, fails to disguise Blanchard's bland score and the opera's weak libretto.

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New York

10 avril 2024

Blanchard’s problematic Fire Shut Up in My Bones returns to the Met

Par Susan Stempleski

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München

Verwässertes Gesamtkunstwerk: Lohengrin an der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Par Benedikt Zacher, 15 février 2024

Kornél Mundruczós Inszenierung lenkt von Wagners Meisterwerk ab, doch eine gewaltige musikalische Leistung tröstet darüber hinweg.

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München

17 févr. 2024

Verwässertes Gesamtkunstwerk: Lohengrin an der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Par Benedikt Zacher

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Los Angeles

Dudamel and the LA Phil illuminate Rheingold

Par Matthew Richard Martinez, 18 janvier 2024

A fully-staged performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold transforms Walt Disney Concert Hall to an opera house where the orchestra is the star.

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Los Angeles

19 janv. 2024

Dudamel and the LA Phil illuminate Rheingold

Par Matthew Richard Martinez

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Hamburg

Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history

Par Alexander Hall, 16 septembre 2023

Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production.

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Hamburg

17 sept. 2023

Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history

Par Alexander Hall

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Philadelphia

A Brucknerian mass at the Philadelphia Orchestra

Par Cameron Kelsall, 05 mai 2023

Yannick Nézet-Séguin combines the composer's unfinished Ninth Symphony, Te Deum and the motet Christus factus est to create an ultimate realization of religious faith and artistic expression.

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Philadelphia

06 mai 2023

A Brucknerian mass at the Philadelphia Orchestra

Par Cameron Kelsall

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And the winner is: Terence Blanchard’s Champion comes to the Met

Par Robert Levine, 18 avril 2023

The compelling story of boxer Emile Griffith's struggles with guilt and sexuality are not ideally rendered in James Robinson's new production.

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New York

24 avril 2023

And the winner is: Terence Blanchard’s Champion comes to the Met

Par Robert Levine

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Lenox

Opera returns to Tanglewood: Andris Nelsons conducts Don Giovanni

Par Kevin Wells, 16 juillet 2022

Andris Nelsons conducts a brisk, but pliant performance of Mozart’s dramma giocoso with a fine cast at Tanglewood.

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Lenox

19 juil. 2022

Opera returns to Tanglewood: Andris Nelsons conducts Don Giovanni

Par Kevin Wells

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Montreal

Rafael Payare ignites a turbocharged Beethoven 9 with Montreal's OSM

Par Ian Cochrane, 31 mai 2022

The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Rafael Payare offer up a thrilling Beethoven 9 to close the season.

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Montreal

05 juin 2022

Rafael Payare ignites a turbocharged Beethoven 9 with Montreal's OSM

Par Ian Cochrane

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Porgy and Bess returns as a great show at The Metropolitan Opera

Par Robert Levine, 10 novembre 2021

James Robinson’s production allows the large cast of Catfish Row to interact like the old pals – almost family – that they are.

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New York

11 nov. 2021

Porgy and Bess returns as a great show at The Metropolitan Opera

Par Robert Levine

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The Metropolitan Opera performs a revelatory, original Boris Godunov

Par Robert Levine, 28 septembre 2021

Forget Rimsky-Korsakov, forget the Polish act... Stephen Wadsworth's new production for The Met returns to Mussorgsky's original 1869 version of his Russian historical epic.

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Villes inconnues ou diverses

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New York

30 sept. 2021

The Metropolitan Opera performs a revelatory, original Boris Godunov

Par Robert Levine

An online Beethovenathon: all nine symphonies across Europe in one day

Par Alexander Hall, 06 juin 2021

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

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Villes inconnues ou diverses

07 juin 2021

An online Beethovenathon: all nine symphonies across Europe in one day

Par Alexander Hall

Puccini is Calaf in Wiener Staatsoper's Turandot

Par George Jahn, 27 février 2020

A pleasurable evening of surprises in Marco Arturo Marelli’s Turandot.

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Vienne

29 févr. 2020

Puccini is Calaf in Wiener Staatsoper's Turandot

Par George Jahn

Otello an der Wiener Staatsoper in beeindruckender Besetzung

Par Snapdragon, 28 janvier 2020

Stephen Gould und Krassimira Stoyanova triumphieren in einer unaufregenden Wohlfühlinszenierung von Adrian Noble.

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Vienne

31 janv. 2020

Otello an der Wiener Staatsoper in beeindruckender Besetzung

Par Snapdragon

Defiant Domingo's Macbeth wins them over at the Staatsoper

Par Stephen Pritchard, 28 octobre 2019

At 78, Domingo rages against the ravages of time, and – certainly in this production – shows the next generation a thing or two about stagecraft.

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Vienne

29 oct. 2019

Defiant Domingo's Macbeth wins them over at the Staatsoper

Par Stephen Pritchard

A thoroughly worthy Porgy and Bess opens the Met's season

Par Robert Levine, 23 septembre 2019

The Met’s new production is directed by James Robinson, who has the characters interacting and listening to one another as if in real life – the inhabitants of Catfish Row have known each other for all of their lives and love, pray and grieve like family.

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New York

25 sept. 2019

A thoroughly worthy Porgy and Bess opens the Met's season

Par Robert Levine

Girl power rules: Vienna State Opera celebrates its 150 years with Die Frau ohne Schatten

Par David Karlin, 25 mai 2019

The outstanding trio of Nylund, Stemme and Herlitzius soars above a Vienna State Opera Orchestra in thunderous form, led by Christian Thielemann to celebrate the Staatsoper's 150th birthday in style.

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Vienne

26 mai 2019

Girl power rules: Vienna State Opera with Die Frau ohne Schatten

Par David Karlin

La bohème an der Wiener Staatsoper: klassische Inszenierung, neue Stimmen

Par Snapdragon, 04 avril 2019

In der altbewährten Zeffirelli-Inszenierung glänzt vor allem Maria Nazarova als Musetta.

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Vienne

08 avril 2019

Eine klassische Bohème an der Wiener Staatsoper

Par Snapdragon

Grantscherben in Pluderhosen: Carlos Álvarez als Falstaff an der Wiener Staatsoper

Par Snapdragon, 25 janvier 2019

Carlos Álvarez und Simon Keenlyside sind ein Duo Infernale: wer Falstaff mag, wird nicht so schnell einen besseren erleben.

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Vienne

28 janv. 2019

Grantscherben in Pluderhosen: Falstaff an der Wiener Staatsoper

Par Snapdragon

At The Met, Netrebko triumphs as Aida, with Rachvelishvili a powerful rival

Par Ako Imamura, 26 septembre 2018

Netrebko met the audience’s high expectations, as she does every time, conquering the challenges with her remarkable artistry.

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New York

27 sept. 2018

Netrebko triumphs as Aida at The Met

Par Ako Imamura

Mostly Mozart concludes with a deeply-felt Requiem

Par Sam Jacobson, 10 août 2018

The Mostly Mozart Festival ended its season with an all-Mozart program centered on the Requiem. Paired with that was a piano concerto with Stephen Hough and the rarely-heard Meistermusik.

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New York

13 août 2018

Mostly Mozart concludes with a deeply-felt Requiem

Par Sam Jacobson

Glänzende Festspiele im Repertoire: Das Rheingold an der Wiener Staatsoper

Par Snapdragon, 04 avril 2018

Eine ausgezeichnete Besetzung unter dem Dirigat von Ádám Fischer macht Lust auf die weiteren Ring-Abende.

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Vienne

06 avril 2018

Das Rheingold glänzt an der Wiener Staatsoper

Par Snapdragon

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A gaudy stand-and-sing Semiramide at the Met

Par Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 19 février 2018

Despite a great cast, the Metropolitan Opera's revival of Semiramide bores with tacky costumes and no direction.

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New York

20 févr. 2018

A gaudy stand-and-sing Semiramide at the Met

Par Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s Elektra a disappointment in Vienna

Par Jonathan Sutherland, 05 décembre 2017

German theatre director Uwe Eric Laufenberg freely incorporates some of Stanley Kubrik’s horror story concepts into his Elektra, but in ignoring both Sophocles and Strauss, is a long way from shining.

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Vienne

07 déc. 2017

Laufenberg’s Elektra a disappointment in Vienna

Par Jonathan Sutherland

Adriana Lecouvreur an der Wiener Staatsoper: Eine Diva vom Feinsten

Par Snapdragon, 09 novembre 2017

Anna Netrebko und Piotr Beczała brillieren unter dem eleganten Dirigat von Evelino Pidò. Ein Pflichttermin für Diven-Verehrer und Freunde opulenter Ausstattung.

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Vienne

13 nov. 2017

Adriana Lecouvreur in Wien: Eine Diva vom Feinsten

Par Snapdragon

Salzburg

Going for gold: Strauss' Die Liebe der Danae returns to Salzburg

Par Matthew Rye, 05 août 2016

Strauss' penultimate opera is treated to a lavish if superficial staging at the Salzburg Festival, but the real rewards come from the musical performance of this unjustly neglected work.

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Salzburg

07 août 2016

Strauss's Die Liebe der Danae returns to Salzburg

Par Matthew Rye

Slava Boris: Wiederaufnahme an der Wiener Staatsoper

Par Simon Haasis, 06 mai 2016

René Pape überzeugt bei seinem Rollendebüt an der Wiener Staatsoper als hellstimmiger Boris Godunow.

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Vienne

07 mai 2016

Slava Boris

Par Simon Haasis

La bohème a chilly disappointment in Vienna

Par Jonathan Sutherland, 26 mars 2016

Despite Angel Blue and Ryan Speedo Green, this revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production lacked vocal colour.

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Vienne

28 mars 2016

La bohème a chilly disappointment in Vienna

Par Jonathan Sutherland

Lise Lindstrom triumphs in a vintage production of Salome in Vienna

Par Jonathan Sutherland, 07 décembre 2015

Carole Wilson’s Herodias almost upstages Lise Lindstrom’s sexy Salome in a fine revival of Boleslaw Barlog's 1972 production in Vienna.

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Vienne

09 déc. 2015

Lindstrom triumphs in a vintage Salome

Par Jonathan Sutherland

An overthought, underperformed Don Giovanni in Vienna

Par Paul Selar, 16 juin 2015

Within Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the darkest corners of the soul are exposed by music, stirred up by the lying, lecherous exploits of the aristocratic scoundrel, Don Giovanni.

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Vienne

23 juin 2015

An overthought, underperformed Don Giovanni

Par Paul Selar

Exciting singing rescues problematic Don Carlo at the Staatsoper

Par Chanda VanderHart, 25 février 2015

Last night’s performance, the second after a serious casting face-lift held to that tradition, and was very well received despite its inherent flaws, thanks to some very fine singing.

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Vienne

27 févr. 2015

Exciting singing rescues problematic Don Carlo

Par Chanda VanderHart

Stunning new production of The Death of Klinghoffer at the Met

Par Rebecca Lentjes, 24 octobre 2014

David Robertson carried the Met Orchestra through one of the most brilliantly-conducted performances I’ve witnessed, though the music itself was not always impressive.

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