En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Catherine Carby

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Moreton-in-Marsh

02 juil. 2026

A vigorous, vivid Tristan und Isolde in the Cotswolds

Par Mark Pullinger

Michael Mayes (Joseph De Rocher) and Christine Rice (Sister Helen Prejean) © Manuel Harlan

Dead Man Walking at English National Opera: a superb execution

Par David Karlin, 01 novembre 2025

Anneliese Miskimmon's ENO production of Jake Heggie and Terence McNally's tale of crime, repentance, compassion and redemption compels from start to finish.

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Londres

01 nov. 2025

Dead Man Walking at English National Opera: a superb execution

Par David Karlin

Christopher Maltman (Wotan) and Elisabet Strid (Brünnhilde) © RBO | Monika Rittershaus

The little man has his day: a nasty and brutish Die Walküre opens at The Royal Opera

Par Peter Quantrill, 01 mai 2025

The latest, thrilling instalment of Barrie Kosky's Ring cycle at Covent Garden does not have to strain for contemporary relevance.

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Londres

01 mai 2025

The little man has his day: a nasty and brutish Die Walküre

Par Peter Quantrill

Heidi Stober (Gretel) and Kate Lindsey (Hansel) © The Royal Opera | Tristram Kenton 2024

Done to a turn: something for everyone in The Royal Opera’s Hansel and Gretel

Par Peter Quantrill, 22 décembre 2024

Kate Lindsey and Heidi Stober weave vocal magic in the latest Covent Garden revival of Humperdinck's box of delights.

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Londres

22 déc. 2024

Done to a turn: something for everyone in Hansel and Gretel

Par Peter Quantrill

Samuel Dundas (Horatio), Jud Arthur (Gravedigger) and Allan Clayton (Hamlet) © Keith Saunders

The quintessence of Hamlet: Brett Dean’s opera arrives in Sydney

Par Jeremy Eccles, 20 juillet 2024

80% less of Shakespeare's text adds up to more intensity in Brett Dean's Hamlet as Neil Armfield's staging is mounted by Opera Australia.

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Sydney

20 juil. 2024

The quintessence of Hamlet: Brett Dean’s opera arrives in Sydney

Par Jeremy Eccles

Stuart Skelton and the Australian Chamber Orchestra © Nic Walker

Symphony or song cycle? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde performed by the ACO

Par Zoltán Szabó, 17 mai 2024

Mahler's epic five-movement symphonic song cycle is performed by a chamber ensemble with mixed results.

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Sydney

17 mai 2024

Symphony or song cycle? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Sydney

Par Zoltán Szabó

Lee Bisset (Brünnhilde) and Catherine Carby (Waltraute) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Moreton-in-Marsh

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Par Roy Westbrook, 29 mai 2023

Longborough's Ring Cycle reaches completion in the Cotswold's, effectively staged by Amy Lane.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

29 mai 2023

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Par Roy Westbrook

Catherine Carby (Médée) © Cassandra Hannagan

Pinchgut Opera brings Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée to Sydney

Par Sandra Bowdler, 01 décembre 2022

Erin Helyard and his cast bring terrifically strong musical values to Charpentier's Médée, but Justin Way's production falters.

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Sydney

01 déc. 2022

Pinchgut Opera brings Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée to Sydney

Par Sandra Bowdler

Natalia Osipova (Mary Vetsera) and Ryoichi Hirano (Rudolf) © ROH | Helen Maybanks

Sex, scandal and Sisi: MacMillan's Mayerling opens Royal Ballet season

Par Mark Pullinger, 05 octobre 2022

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Habsburg history lesson comes with a cast list as long as your arm, but the plots and intrigues ensure a gripping evening at the ballet.

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Londres

05 oct. 2022

Sex, scandal and Sisi: Mayerling opens Royal Ballet season

Par Mark Pullinger

Hereford

Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral

Par Simon Cummings, 23 juillet 2022

The Three Choirs Festival opens with a performance of Dvořák’s Requiem characterised by extremes of melancholy and hope.

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Hereford

23 juil. 2022

Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral

Par Simon Cummings

Buxton

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, fine singing, confusing production

Par Peter Connors, 15 juillet 2022

Buxton International Festival presents Rossini's exhilarating La donna del lago with fine singing, but it is undermined by Jacopo Spirei's staging.

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Buxton

15 juil. 2022

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, confusing production

Par Peter Connors

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival

Par Mark Pullinger, 14 mars 2020

In its 25th anniversary season, Richard Eyre's production continues to attract the world's great sopranos to the role of Violetta, the latest being Aleksandra Kurzak.

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Londres

14 mars 2020

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival

Par Mark Pullinger

“Esultate!” Kunde's Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Par Mark Pullinger, 09 décembre 2019

The American must be one of the few tenors to tackle both Rossini and Verdi's Moor with success.

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Londres

09 déc. 2019

“Esultate!” Kunde's Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Par Mark Pullinger

Adelaide

A much anticipated amazing Girls Night Out in Adelaide

Par Brian Angus, 09 août 2019

When two internationally acclaimed sopranos, two internationally acclaimed mezzos, a brilliant world-renowned conductor, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the music of Richard Strauss align all the elements of a magnificent, thrilling evening have gelled.

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Adelaide

09 août 2019

A much anticipated amazing Girls Night Out in Adelaide

Par Brian Angus

The return of Monteverdi: Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Par David Larkin, 13 juin 2019

Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is given the Pinchgut treatment, with an abstract staging complementing historically informed music-making under Erin Helyard.

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Sydney

13 juin 2019

Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Par David Larkin

Here be monsters: a bracing new Idomeneo from English Touring Opera

Par Benjamin Poore, 08 mars 2019

A direct and expressive new production of one of Mozart's most adventurous operas enthrals at the Hackney Empire.

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Londres

08 mars 2019

A bracing new Idomeneo from English Touring Opera

Par Benjamin Poore

The Royal Ballet opens the new season with Mayerling

Par Graham Watts, 08 octobre 2018

A new season for The Royal Ballet and a new star is "born" in this performance that highlights the company's strength in depth

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Londres

08 oct. 2018

The Royal Ballet opens the new season with Mayerling

Par Graham Watts

Skelton and Anger set the scene for Stemme in Covent Garden's superb Walküre

Par David Karlin, 26 septembre 2018

We start with a triumphant Royal Opera debut from Stuart Skelton, we close with Nina Stemme at her finest; a thrilling orchestral performance links the two. A memorable Walküre.

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Londres

26 sept. 2018

Skelton and Anger set the scene for a superb Walküre

Par David Karlin

Damp squibs prevent ETO's Rossini: Fireworks! from taking off

Par Dominic Lowe, 22 février 2018

ETO's extracts from Rossini's serious operas at the Hackney Empire lacked spark and dynamism, but saw a fine showing from Elena Xanthoudakis and Catherine Carby.

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Londres

22 févr. 2018

Damp squibs prevent ETO's Rossini: Fireworks! from taking off

Par Dominic Lowe

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

10 janv. 2018

Monteverdi on a doughnut: Ulysses fails to thrill

Par David Karlin

Static but worth the slog: ETO's two-part Giulio Cesare

Par Olivia Bell, 07 octobre 2017

Conway's decision to render Handel's epic in its entirety was let down by a static staging and unnecessary repeats that masked the hidden gem-like arias.

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Londres

07 oct. 2017

Static but worth the slog: ETO's Giulio Cesare

Par Olivia Bell

A final outing for the Royal Opera's lavish but fusty Tales of Hoffmann

Par Mark Pullinger, 07 novembre 2016

When an enormous black gondola creaks and shudders its way across the stage in the “Giulietta' act of the Royal Opera's Tales of Hoffmann, it acts as a metaphor for John Schlesinger's venerable production.

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Londres

07 nov. 2016

Final outing for the Royal Opera's fusty Hoffmann

Par Mark Pullinger

A fun-filled La Calisto from English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire

Par Dominic Lowe, 14 octobre 2016

Clever staging and a high standard of acting does much to happily while away the three hours of this baroque opera in the second of ETO's Baroque extravaganza.

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Londres

14 oct. 2016

A fun-filled La Calisto from ETO

Par Dominic Lowe

Norwich

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, ETO

Par Charlotte Valori, 23 mars 2016

English Touring Opera gives Gluck's reformist masterpiece a suitably blood-spattered outing in a production which keeps the opera in touch with its classical roots.

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Norwich

23 mars 2016

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride

Par Charlotte Valori

Something old, something new: Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei, English Touring Opera

Par Charlotte Valori, 10 mars 2016

Donizetti's back catalogue proves just as rich as his well-loved works, with this blisteringly good foray into an extraordinary opera whose UK premiere is 179 undeserved years late.

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Londres

10 mars 2016

Something old, something new: Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei

Par Charlotte Valori

Verismo before its time: Donizetti's Siege of Calais at English Touring Opera

Par David Karlin, 07 mars 2015

Written half a century before the verismo movement, Donizetti paints a true-to-life portrait of a besieged people which is genuinely touching. James Conway's straightforward production features some notable individual singers and an excellent performance by the chorus.

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