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Paris

26 janv. 2023

Dans les filets de Deborah Warner : Peter Grimes emporte Garnier

Par Tristan Labouret

Paris

La Ville Morte de Korngold à Radio France : un lyrisme coloré et irrésistible

Par Julie Jozwiak, 30 janvier 2016

Le samedi 30 janvier 2016, La Ville Morte de Korngold était programmée à l'Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio. Marzena Diakun dirigeait un Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France en pleine forme et une distribution vocale dominée par Camilla Nylund. Un délice.

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Paris

30 janv. 2016

Irrésistible La Ville Morte de Korngold à Radio France

Par Julie Jozwiak

Ruzan Mantashyan (Tatyana) © Richard Hubert Smith

Alresford

Ruzan Mantashyan’s compelling Tatyana makes the Grange Festival’s Eugene Onegin unmissable

Par Mark Pullinger, 26 juin 2026

The Armenian soprano makes her Grange Festival debut – a casting coup that proves the single most compelling reason to see Max Webster’s new production.

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Alresford

26 juin 2026

Compelling Ruzan Mantashyan makes the Grange’s Onegin unmissable

Par Mark Pullinger

Allan Clayton (Peter Grimes) © RBO | Tristram Kenton

No harbour shelters peace: Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Par Christopher Woodley, 5 mai 2026

Allan Clayton and Sir Bryn Terfel lead a strong cast in a revival of Deborah Warner's dark staging of Britten's signature work at Covent Garden.

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Londres

5 mai 2026

Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Par Christopher Woodley

Alexandra Oomens (Anne Trulove) and Adam Temple-Smith (Tom Rakewell) © Craig Fuller

Alresford

The Rake's Progress at The Grange Festival: richly entertaining, but is there soul?

Par David Karlin, 23 juin 2024

Singing performances are excellent, the staging is well crafted and Stravinsky's eclectic score entertains from start to finish. But it's an evening's opera that doesn't touch the soul.

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Alresford

23 juin 2024

The Rake's Progress at The Grange: richly entertaining

Par David Karlin

The power of the sea, the cruelty of the mob: Peter Grimes at The Royal Opera

Par David Karlin, 17 mars 2022

Deborah Warner's intelligent new Covent Garden staging provides the perfect backdrop for a strong singing cast in Britten's maritime masterpiece.

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Londres

17 mars 2022

Potent sea, cruel mob: Peter Grimes at The Royal Opera

Par David Karlin

Madrid

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Par Juan José Freijo, 19 avril 2021

La nueva producción de Peter Grimes se alza como la mejor propuesta de la temporada del Real con una magnífica dirección de Deborah Warner en la escena e Ivor Bolton en lo musical y una sobresaliente actuación vocal y dramática.

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Madrid

19 avr. 2021

Mártires y acosados: Peter Grimes en el Real

Par Juan José Freijo

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Par Matthew Rye, 30 novembre 2019

A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.

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Londres

30 nov. 2019

True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera

Par Matthew Rye

Dublin

A moving and spirited Gerontius in Dublin

Par Michael Roddy, 8 novembre 2019

Conductor Kenneth Montgomery shaped a high-energy performance that at times raised the roof and at others was poignant and moving.

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Dublin

8 nov. 2019

A moving and spirited Gerontius in Dublin

Par Michael Roddy

Amsterdam

Enescus komplexer Oedipe in Amsterdam

Par Michael Klier, 6 décembre 2018

Àlex Ollé inszeniert ein alle Sinne überwaltigendes Fest für die Augen.

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Amsterdam

6 déc. 2018

Enescus komplexer Oedipe in Amsterdam

Par Michael Klier

Melbourne

Sir Andrew Davis leads Elgar’s Gerontius in Melbourne

Par Patricia Maunder, 8 mars 2018

The double choir triumphs in the MSO’s massive, mostly successful attack on an English choral masterpiece all too rarely performed in Australia.

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Melbourne

8 mars 2018

Sir Andrew Davis leads Elgar’s Gerontius in Melbourne

Par Patricia Maunder

Edward Gardner and the Bergen Phil storm the Edinburgh Festival with a powerful Peter Grimes

Par David Smythe, 13 août 2017

Stuart Skelton’s visceral Peter Grimes is matched by a strong cast with thrilling playing and singing from the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner.

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Edimbourg

13 août 2017

A powerful Peter Grimes in Edinburgh

Par David Smythe

Bergen

Psychologically splintered: Stuart Skelton leads a stellar Peter Grimes in Bergen

Par Mark Valencia, 30 mai 2017

This Peter Grimes was a tale of two talents: the conductor and the star.

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Bergen

30 mai 2017

A stellar Peter Grimes in Bergen

Par Mark Valencia

After an imperfect start, Dvořák’s Requiem catches fire at the Barbican

Par David Karlin, 13 avril 2017

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus grow in stature through an evening which provides a good introduction to the virtues of Dvořák’s seldom-played large scale choral work.

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Londres

13 avr. 2017

Dvořák’s Requiem at the Barbican

Par David Karlin

Milton Keynes

Bitter wine: Frank Martin's Le Vin herbé an acquired taste

Par Mark Pullinger, 21 mars 2017

Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé is as anti-Wagnerian a work as you could imagine. It is also the odd one out in Welsh National Opera’s “Love’s Poisoned Chalice” spring season.

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Milton Keynes

21 mars 2017

Bitter wine: WNO's Le Vin herbé

Par Mark Pullinger

Anguish with or without words: the Philharmonia plays Schubert and Mahler

Par Charlotte Valori, 16 octobre 2016

Superb Schubert followed by some altogether more mysterious and disorientating Mahler makes for a Sunday night treat at the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Josep Pons.

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Londres

16 oct. 2016

Anguish with or without words

Par Charlotte Valori

Inspired by Shakespeare: a London gala to celebrate The Bard

Par Mark Pullinger, 23 avril 2016

“If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it.” There was certainly plenty of Shakespeare-inspired music on the bill for the London Philharmonic Orchestra's celebration of The Bard.

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Londres

23 avr. 2016

Inspired by Shakespeare: a London gala

Par Mark Pullinger

Vienne

Shock of the new: Cornelius Meister and the Vienna RSO on new days, new seasons, new compositions

Par Chanda VanderHart, 9 avril 2016

Fingers and bows fluttered through dance-like figures and virtuosic passages packed with trills with astonishing clarity and brilliance.

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Vienne

9 avr. 2016

Shock of the new: Vienna RSO

Par Chanda VanderHart

Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin returns to Covent Garden

Par Mark Pullinger, 19 décembre 2015

Would a younger soprano taking the role of Tatyana blur Kasper Holten's "dancing doubles" vision of Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House?

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Londres

19 déc. 2015

Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin

Par Mark Pullinger

Too good to be true: A very fine Rakes Progress at the Edinburgh International Festival

Par David Smythe, 12 août 2015

A successful concert hall Rake's Progress at the Edinburgh International Festival with an impressively strong cast of singers, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Royal Conservatoire Voices under Sir Andrew Davis.

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Edimbourg

12 août 2015

A very fine Rakes Progress at the EIF

Par David Smythe

Glyndebourne

Dark deeds under the microscope: Britten's Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne

Par David Karlin, 5 juillet 2015

The Rape of Lucretia may be something of a problem piece, but Fiona Shaw's production is an excellent piece of ensemble theatre set around some very fine performances of music of rare beauty.

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Glyndebourne

5 juil. 2015

Dark deeds under the microscope: Britten's Lucretia

Par David Karlin

Drab Dutchman at Covent Garden only partially redeemed by singers

Par David Larkin, 5 février 2015

A dark and minimalist staging doesn't quite fire Wagner's Flying Dutchman into life at the Royal Opera House, despite worthy performances from Bryn Terfel, Adrianne Pieczonka and others under the direction of Andris Nelsons.

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Londres

5 févr. 2015

Drab Dutchman at Covent Garden

Par David Larkin

A traditional start to a traditional Proms season

Par Gavin Dixon, 18 juillet 2014

A brave choice for a Proms season opener, but Elgar's ponderous score is presented in the best possible light by the BBC forces.

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Londres

18 juil. 2014

A traditional start to a traditional Proms season

Par Gavin Dixon

Prom 45: Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage

Par Chris Garlick, 16 août 2013

It’s so good to hear Tippett’s ravishing opera, The Midsummer Marriage, performed in full at the Proms, particularly in Britten’s centenary year. Tippet’s work is like an antidote to Britten’s drier, more literal operatic style – so overflowing with warmth, colour and hope.

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Londres

16 août 2013

Prom 45: Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage

Par Chris Garlick

Bristol

Handel's Messiah reworked for the last night of the Bristol Proms

Par Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 3 août 2013

The last night of the Bristol Proms was experimental. A full house at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre was greeted by artistic director Tom Morris to introduce this semi-staged version of Handel’s Messiah – last performed in the venue in 1782, when it was too sacrilegious for churches. Morris said that Handel was “a dramatist”, and to honour this, he took a more theatrical route with this performance.

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Bristol

3 août 2013

Handel's Messiah reworked for the last night of the Bristol Proms

Par Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Sir Andrew Davis and RSNO in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

Par Alan Coady, 17 mai 2013

RSNO concerts begin, for me and around 100 others, with the pre-concert talk. I'm especially glad of these when new to a work, such as Mendelssohn’s 1846 Elijah. A talk by those who have prepared the music for us adds something to even the most extensive “presearch”. Sir Andrew Davis, in conversation with RSNO principal trombonist Dávur Juul Magnussen, came across as extremely witty and erudite.

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Edimbourg

17 mai 2013

Sir Andrew Davis and RSNO in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah

Par Alan Coady

A fitting tribute to Sir Colin Davis: LSO and a superb cast perform Britten's The Turn of the Screw

Par Julia Savage, 16 avril 2013

Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, part of the London Symphony Orchestra’s contribution to the Britten 100 celebrations, was supposed to have been conducted by Sir Colin Davis; it was instead dedicated to his memory following his death last Sunday.

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Londres

16 avr. 2013

A fitting tribute to Sir Colin Davis: LSO and a superb cast perform Britten's The Turn of the Screw

Par Julia Savage

Tokyo

An outstanding Peter Grimes in Tokyo

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 8 octobre 2012

Willy Decker’s production of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, which originated at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1994 and was revived at London’s Royal Opera House in 2004 and 2011, has now reached Tokyo. The work opened the new season of the New National Theatre Tokyo, the capital’s main opera house, currently celebrating its 15th anniversary.

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Tokyo

8 oct. 2012

An outstanding Peter Grimes in Tokyo

Par Nahoko Gotoh

True to the spirit of Pushkin: ENO's Eugene Onegin

Par David Karlin, 12 novembre 2011

Young man spurns the love of a good woman. Time passes. Man realises the error of his ways, but it is too late. It's not exactly the most taxing of plot lines, but in Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin turned it into a masterpiece.

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Londres

12 nov. 2011

True to the spirit of Pushkin: ENO's Eugene Onegin

Par David Karlin

Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes

Par David Karlin, 21 juin 2011

English classical music is often associated with the countryside, the landscape and its villages, and Britten's opera Peter Grimes is no exception.

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Londres

21 juin 2011

Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes

Par David Karlin

RSNO and Stéphane Denève: John Adams and Beethoven 9

Par Rohan Shotton, 5 mai 2011

The final concert of the RSNO’s 2010-11 Usher Hall season was a journey from John Adams’ reflection on the tragedy of 11th September 2001 to Beethoven’s joyful statement of brotherhood in his Symphony No. 9. John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to mark the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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Edimbourg

5 mai 2011

RSNO and Stéphane Denève: John Adams and Beethoven 9

Par Rohan Shotton

London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform all-Prokofiev programme

Par Hannah Gill, 3 avril 2011

This evening’s programme showed us two aspects of Prokofiev’s output – his serious concert works for the stage and on the other hand his more populist music composed for film. Both were highly exciting, colourful works, and both typical of Prokofiev in different ways.The First Violin Concerto was a curious mixture of the ethereal and rustic.