En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | David Stout

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Anvers

08 juin 2024

Vingt-cinq ans après, la Jenůfa de Carsen est de retour à Anvers

Par Stéphane Lelièvre

Genève

Don Giovanni high on coke à Genève

Par Thomas Muller, 01 juin 2018

Un Don Giovanni de haute volée porté par un Simon Keenlyside impérial, dans une mise en scène sombre mais d’une efficacité redoutable.

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Genève

01 juin 2018

Don Giovanni high on coke à Genève

Par Thomas Muller

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Hereford

Predictable and polite: Coleridge-Taylor’s bloodless passion at the Three Choirs Festival

Par Simon Cummings, 31 juillet 2025

Though musically flawed, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s choral work The Atonement is given a superb performance at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral.

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Hereford

31 juil. 2025

Coleridge-Taylor’s bloodless passion at the Three Choirs Festival

Par Simon Cummings

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West Horsley

Ukraine matters: Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera

Par Roy Westbrook, 14 juin 2025

Why is Tchaikovsky’s very fine opera still a rarity outside Russia? David Pountney directs a new production at the Surrey festival.

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West Horsley

14 juin 2025

Ukraine matters: Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera

Par Roy Westbrook

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Barbe and Doucet's stylish Don Pasquale is a comic delight at Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe, 12 octobre 2024

Barbe and Doucet’s witty 1960s Don Pasquale is revived for Scottish Opera, with Stuart Stratford conducting a fine cast.

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Glasgow

12 oct. 2024

Barbe and Doucet's stylish Don Pasquale is a comic delight

Par David Smythe

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McBurney's delightfully batty Magic Flute returns to the Coliseum

Par Susannah Moody, 28 février 2024

English National Opera brings back Simon McBurney's theatre of wonders for this Mozart classic.

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Londres

28 févr. 2024

McBurney's delightfully batty Magic Flute returns to the Coliseum

Par Susannah Moody

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Scottish Barber of Seville packed with fun

Par David Smythe, 17 octobre 2023

Sir Thomas Allen returns to Scottish Opera to revive The Barber of Seville with a strong cast headed by Samuel Dale Johnson, Anthony Gregory, David Stout and Simone McIntosh.

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Glasgow

17 oct. 2023

Scottish Barber of Seville packed with fun

Par David Smythe

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West Horsley

Death-devoted duo: a superb new Tristan und Isolde at Grange Park Opera

Par Roy Westbrook, 08 juin 2023

Charles Edwards' ambitious production is well served by a strong cast as Grange Park Opera opens its season in the Theatre in the Woods.

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West Horsley

08 juin 2023

Death-devoted duo: a superb Tristan und Isolde at Grange Park Opera

Par Roy Westbrook

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Beware of what you wish for: The Makropulos Affair at Welsh National Opera

Par David Karlin, 16 septembre 2022

Olivia Fuchs gives a powerful staging of Janáček's morality tale of the perils of eternal youth, with an excellent cast, but there are reservations about the title role.

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Cardiff

16 sept. 2022

Beware of what you wish for: The Makropulos Affair at WNO

Par David Karlin

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West Horsley

Into the lion's mouth: Ponchielli's La Gioconda at Grange Park Opera

Par Mark Pullinger, 11 juin 2022

No hippos in tutus for The Dance of the Hours, but panto frolics abound in Stephen Madcalf's staging in the idyllic Theatre in the Woods.

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West Horsley

11 juin 2022

Into the lion's mouth: Ponchielli's La Gioconda at Grange Park Opera

Par Mark Pullinger

After 20 years, Jenůfa makes a triumphant return to Covent Garden

Par David Karlin, 28 septembre 2021

Guth's intelligent production comes with a Karita Mattila masterclass and an outstanding cast, intense to the point of pain.

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Londres

28 sept. 2021

Jenůfa makes a triumphant return to Covent Garden

Par David Karlin

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe, 22 février 2020

Scottish Opera’s Nixon in China in a stylish, living history production from John Fulljames, with strong performances across the board, Joana Carneiro stoking the fires in the pit.

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Glasgow

22 févr. 2020

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

Par David Smythe

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

Roberto Alagna brings up his century at The Royal Opera in Andrea Chénier revival

Par Mark Pullinger, 20 mai 2019

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

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Londres

20 mai 2019

Roberto Alagna brings up his century at The Royal Opera

Par Mark Pullinger

Amsterdam

Ravishment without drama in Dutch premiere of A Village Romeo and Juliet

Par Jenny Camilleri, 15 décembre 2018

Gorgeous playing under Sir Mark Elder wasn’t enough to mask the lack of theatrical drive in the scrupulously cast Dutch premiere of Delius’ most successful opera.

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Amsterdam

15 déc. 2018

The Dutch premiere of A Village Romeo and Juliet

Par Jenny Camilleri

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

A thrilling Don Giovanni at Welsh National Opera

Par Benjamin Poore, 22 février 2018

A strong cast take us to the brink of damnation in Welsh National Opera’s revival of Don Giovanni.

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Cardiff

22 févr. 2018

A thrilling Don Giovanni at Welsh National Opera

Par Benjamin Poore

Genève

Elena Langer's Figaro Gets a Divorce shines in Geneva

Par Elodie Olson-Coons, 14 septembre 2017

Elena Langer's gorgeous and tongue-in-cheek Figaro Gets a Divorce shines in Geneva, despite David Pountney's boxy libretto.

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Genève

14 sept. 2017

Elena Langer's Figaro Gets a Divorce shines in Geneva

Par Elodie Olson-Coons

Scottish Opera’s detailed La bohème bursts with joie de vivre

Par David Smythe, 20 mai 2017

Renaud Doucet and André Barbe’s La bohème for Scottish Opera set in the jazz-age is packed with Parisian life.

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Glasgow

20 mai 2017

Bohème bursts with joie de vivre

Par David Smythe

Manchester

A 24-carat Rheingold as the Hallé continues its Ring quest

Par Richard Ely, 27 novembre 2016

The Hallé's oddly-ordered Ring arrives at the beginning with Das Rheingold.

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Manchester

27 nov. 2016

A 24 carat Rheingold from the Hallé

Par Richard Ely

Birmingham

April Fredrick astonishes in world première of Joubert's Jane Eyre

Par Pamela Nash, 25 octobre 2016

John Joubert's opera setting of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece received its long-awaited world premiere by the English Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Woods, with a luminous central performance by soprano April Fredrick.

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Birmingham

25 oct. 2016

World première of Joubert's Jane Eyre

Par Pamela Nash

All that glitters: Tchaikowsky's The Merchant of Venice staged by Welsh National Opera

Par Simon Rees, 16 septembre 2016

André Tchaikowsky's version of The Merchant of Venice combines his love of Shakespeare with his recollections of a harsh childhood as a Jew in the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Cardiff

16 sept. 2016

All that glitters: WNO stages The Merchant of Venice

Par Simon Rees

Alresford

The Inquisition's dark days: Don Carlo at Grange Park

Par David Karlin, 18 juin 2016

Strong vocal and orchestral performances and a tour-de-force staging of Act II light up Grange Park's production of Verdi's political thriller of the dark days of the Spanish inquisition.

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Alresford

18 juin 2016

The Inquisition's dark days: Don Carlo at Grange Park

Par David Karlin

Bristol

WNO's Figaro Gets a Divorce: a memorable night in Bristol

Par Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 17 mars 2016

Elena Langer and David Pountney's new WNO opera Figaro Gets a Divorce did not disappoint. Langer's new refreshing score had flair and imagination in a memorable performance.

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Bristol

17 mars 2016

WNO's Figaro Gets a Divorce: a memorable night

Par Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Strong performances in WNO's Marriage of Figaro

Par Rohan Shotton, 20 février 2016

Lothar Koenigs conducted a musically excellent and dramatically straightforward performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in Cardiff.

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Cardiff

20 févr. 2016

Strong performances in WNO's Marriage of Figaro

Par Rohan Shotton

Leoncavallo's Zazà: another successful Opera Rara excavation

Par David Karlin, 27 novembre 2015

In spite of the not insignificant problems, Opera Rara are utterly convincing that Leoncavallo's Zazà is a work that should be seen and heard more often.

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Londres

27 nov. 2015

Zazà: another successful Opera Rara excavation

Par David Karlin

Wexford

Ivory Gothic madness: a visceral Guglielmo Ratcliff in Wexford

Par Mark Pullinger, 22 octobre 2015

Opportunities to see Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff come few and far between, mainly because the title role is an absolute killer for any tenor mad enough to attempt it. Step forward, Angelo Villari...

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Wexford

22 oct. 2015

Ivory Gothic madness: a visceral Guglielmo Ratcliff

Par Mark Pullinger

Moreton-in-Marsh

Susanna Hurrell shines at Longborough's Don Pasquale

Par Robert Gainer, 03 juillet 2015

Longborough Festival Opera have opted for Donizetti for the first time, with Don Pasquale. How successful would the cast be at unleashing the ‘feel-good factor’ of opera buffa?

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Moreton-in-Marsh

03 juil. 2015

Longborough's Don Pasquale

Par Robert Gainer

Iain Paterson and Edward Gardner lead a top quality rendering of Wagner's Meistersinger for ENO

Par David Karlin, 07 février 2015

With ENO having been in the news for all the wrong reasons last week, it needed Richard Jones' The Mastersingers of Nuremberg to be a great production. Lit up by a towering performance by Iain Paterson, it is.

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Londres

07 févr. 2015

A top quality rendering of Wagner's Meistersinger

Par David Karlin

A fabulous Figaro from Fiona Shaw for English National Opera

Par Charlotte Valori, 16 octobre 2014

Full of physical comedy, joyous and enthusiastic, Fiona Shaw's vision of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro makes the most of its taut and energetic plotlines, intense charactisation and beautifully balanced music.

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Londres

16 oct. 2014

A fabulous Figaro at ENO

Par Charlotte Valori

Not for beginners: Christopher Alden's Rigoletto at ENO

Par David Karlin, 13 février 2014

Last night’s opening of Christopher Alden’s allusive, conceptual Rigoletto for ENO, a co-production with Canadian Opera Company, was a notable event for London opera. Musically, ENO have been on top of their game this season and last night was no exception.

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Londres

13 févr. 2014

ENO: Rigoletto

Par David Karlin

A miraculous Wagner Dream from Welsh National Opera

Par Paul Kilbey, 06 juin 2013

Miraculous as Jonathan Harvey’s music is, it seems reductive to call Wagner Dream an opera. Half the cast, after all, don’t even sing, but act: it’s a sincere meeting of music and theatre in a way that opera usually isn’t.

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Cardiff

06 juin 2013

A miraculous Wagner Dream from Welsh National Opera

Par Paul Kilbey

Manchester

A glowing Meistersinger in Manchester

Par Rohan Shotton, 10 février 2013

Few things could unite such a large group of people as the Hallé’s Meistersinger did tonight. Some 515 performers, drawn from three orchestras and five choirs, gathered to present highlights from the first two acts of Wagner’s opera and the third act in full.

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Manchester

10 févr. 2013

A glowing Meistersinger in Manchester

Par Rohan Shotton

Jonathan Miller's Mikado returns to English National Opera

Par Emily Owen, 01 décembre 2012

Jonathan Miller and ENO’s iconic interpretation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado has returned to the London Coliseum this Christmas, to the delight of G&S fans across the capital, including myself.

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Londres

01 déc. 2012

Jonathan Miller's Mikado returns to English National Opera

Par Emily Owen

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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