En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Jonathan McGovern

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Toulouse

23 févr. 2016

L’éloquence française d’André Campra, par Christie et Carsen

Par Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

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Rameau meets The Kardashians: Platée opens Garsington Opera's season

Par David Karlin, 29 mai 2024

A superb orchestral performance from Paul Agnew and The English Concert lights up a breezy and fun staging of Rameau's ballet bouffon.

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High Wycombe

29 mai 2024

Rameau meets The Kardashians: Platée at Garsington

Par David Karlin

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Barcelona

Ménage à trois con Pasolini, Bieito y Parra: Orgia en el Liceu

Par Maria Sánchez, 11 avril 2024

Una tragedia del espíritu del siglo XX con música del XXI; Hèctor Parra y Calixto Bieito releen a Pasolini en una producción acertada, aún con un resultado a medias.

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Barcelona

11 avril 2024

Ménage à trois con Pasolini, Bieito y Parra: Orgia en el Liceu

Par Maria Sánchez

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Glasgow

Theatre meets opera in delightful Midsummer Night’s Dream at Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe, 22 février 2022

Dominic Hill brings a touch of the theatre to a finely sung new production of Britten's opera, with Stuart Stratford conducting a driven ensemble.

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Glasgow

22 févr. 2022

A delightful Midsummer Night’s Dream at Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe

Edimbourg

Edinburgh International Festival closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

Par David Smythe, 25 août 2021

Memorable role debuts from Dorothea Röschmann, David Butt Philip and Catriona Morison make Ariadne auf Naxos with the RSNO and Lothar Koenigs a night to savour.

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Edimbourg

25 août 2021

EIF closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

Par David Smythe

Orchestra and chorus light up Garsington's Eugene Onegin revival

Par David Karlin, 03 juin 2021

The Philharmonia and Garsington Chorus deliver great performances, as do Natalia Tanasii and Fleur Barron as the two Larina sisters.

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High Wycombe

03 juin 2021

Orchestra and chorus light up Garsington's Eugene Onegin revival

Par David Karlin

A live audience returns to Covent Garden, but those watching at home get the better deal

Par Stephen Pritchard, 17 octobre 2020

Christine Rice gives an astonishingly performance in an evening of four powerful chamber pieces.

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Londres

17 oct. 2020

A live audience returns to Covent Garden

Par Stephen Pritchard

Edimbourg

A delicious bite-sized chunk of romantic opera: Scottish Opera's The Telephone

Par David Karlin, 10 août 2020

Attractive music and delicious comedy abound in Scottish Opera's short film of Gian Carlo Menotti's 1947 comic opera, made for Edinburgh International Festival.

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Edimbourg

10 août 2020

A delicious bite-sized chunk of romantic opera: The Telephone

Par David Karlin

Cardiff

WNO’s Figaro revival crackles with humour and exudes joie de vivre

Par Alice Hughes, 16 février 2020

A solid Figaro in Cardiff, in which individual performances are a joy, and humour abounds.

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Cardiff

16 févr. 2020

WNO’s Figaro revival crackles with humour and exudes joie de vivre

Par Alice Hughes

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

Mixed emotions: a flawed but interesting Don Giovanni from Garsington Opera

Par Mark Valencia, 30 mai 2019

As a hybrid of brilliance and disappointment, this Don Giovanni is in a class of its own.

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High Wycombe

30 mai 2019

A flawed but interesting Don Giovanni from Garsington Opera

Par Mark Valencia

Cardiff

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

Truth and Wisdom: a searching Zauberflöte at Garsington

Par Mark Pullinger, 31 mai 2018

A twist on the usual Enlightenment path, this is an admirable production, excellently executed.

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High Wycombe

31 mai 2018

Truth and Wisdom: a searching Zauberflöte at Garsington

Par Mark Pullinger

Glasgow

Dove’s Flight: Witty and poignant tale of airport life at Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe, 24 février 2018

Jonathan Dove’s witty Flight at Scottish Opera is finely sung by a tight ensemble with standout performances from Jennifer France and James Laing.

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Glasgow

24 févr. 2018

Witty and poignant tale of airport life at Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe

Light and shade: Garsington Opera’s Pelléas et Mélisande at Wormsley

Par Matthew Rye, 18 juin 2017

Debussy’s opera of half-lights succeeds in taming the glare of the midsummer sun in Garsington’s new staging.

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High Wycombe

18 juin 2017

Light and shade: Pelléas et Mélisande at Wormsley

Par Matthew Rye

Hamburg

Saisoneröffnung mit Mozarts Zauberflöte in Hamburg

Par Isabel Schubert, 27 septembre 2016

Mit Mozarts Zauberflöte gibt Jette Steckel ihr Debüt als Opernregisseurin und polarisiert mit einer von Lichteffekten überladenen Bühnenausstattung das Hamburger Premierenpublikum.

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Hamburg

27 sept. 2016

Saisoneröffnung mit Mozarts Zauberflöte in Hamburg

Par Isabel Schubert

Friars just wanna have fun: Cesti's Orontea with La Nuova Musica

Par Charlotte Valori, 14 décembre 2015

A very naughty translation and some fine singing make for a delightfully comic evening of Cesti's recently rediscovered Orontea at Wigmore Hall.

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Londres

14 déc. 2015

Friars just wanna have fun: Cesti's Orontea

Par Charlotte Valori

Pelléas et Mélisande missing magic at the start of English Touring Opera's season

Par David Karlin, 01 octobre 2015

Fine orchestral and singing performances in ETO's Pelléas et Mélisande aren't enough to overcome some of the work's difficulties.

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Londres

01 oct. 2015

Missing magic: Pelléas et Mélisande

Par David Karlin

Opera's Spaghetti Western: Puccini's Girl of the Golden West at ENO

Par David Karlin, 02 octobre 2014

Keri-Lynn Wilson produces an outstanding UK conducting debut in Richard Jones' faithful production of Puccini's Girl of the Golden West for ENO.

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Londres

02 oct. 2014

Puccini's Girl of the Golden West at ENO

Par David Karlin

Two wins out of three: Julian Anderson's Thebans at ENO

Par David Karlin, 03 mai 2014

Julian Anderson’s Thebans, a bold attempt at condensing Sophocles’ three Theban plays into a single opera. The result is a powerful piece of theatre which drags the audience into the story of Oedipus’s horrific downfall and death, with its ensuing civil war.

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Londres

03 mai 2014

Two wins out of three: Julian Anderson's Thebans at ENO

Par David Karlin

Première of Michel van der Aa's Sunken Garden at the Barbican

Par Paul Kilbey, 12 avril 2013

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “3D occult mystery film opera”? Because I’ll bet that whatever this makes you imagine is nothing like the reality of composer/director Michel van der Aa and librettist David Mitchell’s Sunken Garden, which debuted at the Barbican last night.

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Londres

12 avril 2013

Première of Michel van der Aa's Sunken Garden at the Barbican

Par Paul Kilbey

Prom 49: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard

Par David Karlin, 19 août 2012

When choosing a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta to be performed at the Proms in a year firmly branded as "London 2012", The Yeomen of the Guard had obvious appeal, being set in one of the capital's most famous landmarks, and giving the opportunity, even in semi-staged form, to deck the hall with Beefeater uniforms.

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Londres

19 août 2012

Prom 49: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard

Par David Karlin

Minghella's Butterfly returns to ENO

Par Paul Kilbey, 08 mai 2012

Anthony Minghella's famous production of Puccini's Madam Butterfly debuted with ENO in 2005, and has been revived several times since at the Coliseum, as well as travelling to the Met in New York and the Lithuanian National Opera. ENO's latest revival confirms the classic status of this version, with a musical account which goes some way to matching the sumptuous and – yes – cinematic visuals.

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Londres

08 mai 2012

Minghella's Butterfly returns to ENO

Par Paul Kilbey

Two Boys, ENO

Par Intermezzo, 27 juin 2011

It's about time someone wrote an opera about the internet. And who better than Nico Muhly - snarky blogger, snappy Tweeter, and according to the Daily Telegraph "the hottest young composer around"? Add seasoned playwright Craig Lucas, top Broadway director Bartlett Sher and some of Britain's finest singers, and you might expect them to cook up a success.