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

Peter Konwitschny's production of La traviata has its flaws, but in an age of protracted media there is much to be said for his taut production of Verdi's most famous tragedy.

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Londres

23 oct. 2023

Curtain rises on ENO’s Traviata revival

Par Dominic Lowe

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Londres

Cummings and the AAM bring the house down with Samson at the BBC Proms

Par Nick Boston, 23 août 2023

Majestic performances all round in Handel's oratorio, with a strong solo team led by Allan Clayton as Samson, and a convincingly well-drilled performance from the Philharmonia Chorus.

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Londres

23 août 2023

Cummings and the AAM bring the house down with Samson at the Proms

Par Nick Boston

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Birmingham

WNO’s abstract Magic Flute proves more contemporary than cohesive

Par Robert Gainer, 03 mai 2023

WNO delivers a well-performed production of Mozart’s Magic Flute with some fresh ideas, but other which dilute it.

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Birmingham

03 mai 2023

WNO’s abstract Magic Flute proves more contemporary than cohesive

Par Robert Gainer

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Londres

Devilishly good: Gardner conducts The Damnation of Faust at the Royal Festival Hall

Par Dominic Lowe, 04 février 2023

A poisoned rat, sugary girls and just the small matter of a man's soul. Berlioz's légende dramatique deals minor to the major and in the hands of Edward Gardner and a superb cast, the work truly comes to life and brings the composer's unique flair to the fore.

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Londres

04 févr. 2023

Devilishly good: Gardner conducts The Damnation of Faust

Par Dominic Lowe

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Barcelona

La música, el sado y la memoria: reflexión en torno a la Tosca de Rafael R. Villalobos

Par Maria Sánchez, 04 janvier 2023

Indignación en la mayor parte del público ante el proyecto de Rafael R. Villalobos, apostando por una dimensión política de la obra, en diferentes niveles y lecturas en torno al clásico.

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Barcelona

04 janv. 2023

La música, el sado y la memoria: Tosca en el Liceu

Par Maria Sánchez

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Sydney

Back from the brink: two sopranos rescue Florestan in Sydney Symphony Fidelio

Par Jeremy Eccles, 24 novembre 2022

Simone Young is made of stern stuff. With 30 hours to go before the concert performance, her Leonore falls ill. Can the show go on?

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Sydney

24 nov. 2022

Back from the brink: two sopranos rescue Florestan in Sydney

Par Jeremy Eccles

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Alresford

Kilts in the library: Macbeth opens The Grange Festival

Par Dominic Lowe, 09 juin 2022

Murder in the library? No, this isn't a re-run of Poirot, but a new production of Verdi's Macbeth to open The Grange Festival's 2022 season.

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Alresford

09 juin 2022

Kilts in the library: Macbeth opens The Grange Festival

Par Dominic Lowe

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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

Glyndebourne

Strong cast lifts Wake-Walker's constrained staging in Glyndebourne Tour's Fidelio

Par Nick Boston, 16 octobre 2021

A vast panopticon cages strong musical performances in Wake-Walker's Fidelio at Glyndebourne, with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith standing out vocally and emotionally as Leonore and Florestan.

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Glyndebourne

16 oct. 2021

Strong cast lifts constrained staging in Glyndebourne's Fidelio

Par Nick Boston

Vienne

A Clemenza to pardon at Theater an der Wien

Par Chanda VanderHart, 17 octobre 2019

Sam Brown's sparse production leaves nothing to focus on but the individual protagonists on stage.

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Vienne

17 oct. 2019

A Clemenza to pardon at Theater an der Wien

Par Chanda VanderHart

Londres

“Ecco un artista!”: melodrama aplenty in ROH Tosca revival

Par Mark Pullinger, 27 mai 2019

Red-blooded performances from the three principals at Covent Garden, even if there are vocal misfires along the way.

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Londres

27 mai 2019

“Ecco un artista!”: melodrama aplenty in ROH Tosca revival

Par Mark Pullinger

Vienne

Drunter und drüber, und trotzdem überdrüber: King Arthur am Theater an der Wien

Par Snapdragon, 24 janvier 2019

Atmosphärische und kaleidoskopisch bunte Bilder machen King Arthur zu einem beeindruckenden Gesamtkunstwerk.

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Vienne

24 janv. 2019

Drunter und (über)drüber: King Arthur am Theater an der Wien

Par Snapdragon

Londres

Flogging a dead horse: a new Salome at English National Opera

Par Dominic Lowe, 28 septembre 2018

ENO's new production of Salome which opens the season features some commendable music-making, but is let down by a flawed concept and dull staging.

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Londres

28 sept. 2018

Flogging a dead horse: a new Salome at English National Opera

Par Dominic Lowe

Alresford

Harem capers: Copley directs a knockabout Seraglio at Grange Festival

Par Mark Pullinger, 24 juin 2018

Directing Entführung at the grand old age of 85, John Copley gives us plenty of fun in the Pasha's palace.

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Alresford

24 juin 2018

A knockabout Seraglio at Grange Festival

Par Mark Pullinger

Dublin

Fun and frolics at Irish National Opera's Figaro

Par Andrew Larkin, 17 avril 2018

A wonderful ful-filled caper by the Irish National Opera of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Erraught as Susanna and Miskelly as Cherubino really impressing.

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Dublin

17 avril 2018

Fun and frolics at Irish National Opera's Figaro

Par Andrew Larkin

Londres

Hot ice and strange snow: an unseasonal return for Carsen’s bed-hopping Dream

Par Mark Pullinger, 01 mars 2018

In Siberian conditions more akin to The Winter's Tale, a revival of Robert Carsen's season setting of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream offered a warm glow at the Coliseum.

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Londres

01 mars 2018

Hot ice and strange snow

Par Mark Pullinger

Londres

Devilishly good fun at OperaGlass Works' The Rake's Progress

Par Benjamin Poore, 17 novembre 2017

A compelling and energetic debut production from a new opera company in the raddled surroundings of Wilton's Music Hall.

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Londres

17 nov. 2017

Devilishly good fun: The Rake's Progress

Par Benjamin Poore

Seattle

Seattle begins New Year with Beethoven's Ninth

Par Erica Miner, 07 janvier 2017

To open the new year, Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot chose a standard work, Beethoven’s Ninth, prefaced with an unusual one by French composer Olivier Messaien.

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Seattle

07 janv. 2017

Seattle begins New Year with Beethoven's Ninth

Par Erica Miner

Vienne

Keith Warners Don Giovanni im Theater an der Wien: Immer wieder gern

Par Snapdragon, 14 décembre 2016

Wahrscheinlich eine der besten Don Giovanni-Inszenierungen aller Zeiten; mit Sicherheit die lustigste.

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Vienne

14 déc. 2016

Keith Warners Don Giovanni: Immer wieder gern

Par Snapdragon

Seattle

Rough Pearl: Seattle Opera’s Pearl Fishers nearly hits the mark

Par Kevin W Ng, 17 octobre 2015

Uneven musical values mar Seattle Opera's colourful production of Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles.

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Seattle

17 oct. 2015

Rough Pearl: Seattle Opera’s Pearl Fishers nearly hits the mark

Par Kevin W Ng

Londres

That sinking feeling: ENO’s Pirates of Penzance scuppered at the Coliseum

Par Mark Pullinger, 09 mai 2015

As director of the film Topsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh seemed like a natural choice to turn his hand to The Pirates of Penzance at English National Opera. Sadly, this proved not to be the case.

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Londres

09 mai 2015

That sinking feeling: ENO’s Pirates of Penzance

Par Mark Pullinger

Londres

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

Auckland

A fresh and joyous account of The Creation from the New Zealand SO

Par Simon Holden, 30 août 2014

A rendition of The Creation in Auckland that had one marvelling anew at Haydn’s ingenuity and spirit.

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Auckland

30 août 2014

A fresh and joyous Creation

Par Simon Holden

Edimbourg

Mahler's epic Eighth a thrilling finale to RSNO's season

Par David Smythe, 30 mai 2014

Any performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony is a special event. This one was a thrilling end to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's season.

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Edimbourg

30 mai 2014

Mahler's epic Eighth a thrilling finale to RSNO's season

Par David Smythe

Londres

Handel's Belshazzar at the Barbican with Les Arts Florissants

Par Julia Savage, 13 décembre 2012

Handel’s Belshazzar was the oratorio of choice for renowned music group Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican last week. The group was famously set up in France in 1979 by the American-born William Christie, eventually becoming an international household name for its critically acclaimed performances and recordings of Baroque operas on period instruments.

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Londres

13 déc. 2012

Handel's Belshazzar at the Barbican with Les Arts Florissants

Par Julia Savage

San Francisco

Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick triumphs in San Francisco

Par Jeffery S. McMillan, 10 octobre 2012

Though reports of the work’s importance and dramatic power have attended it since its 2010 premiere in Dallas, I doubt many in the audience of the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday night were prepared for the impact of Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick.

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San Francisco

10 oct. 2012

Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick triumphs in San Francisco

Par Jeffery S. McMillan

Londres

Prom 23: A varied menu of early 20th-century English music

Par Jane Shuttleworth, 31 juillet 2012

Prom 23 served up a menu of English music from the first half of the 20 century in all its variety, with impressionism by Delius, the lush strings of Vaughan Williams, heroic brass from Ireland, and jazzy, sophisticated excitement from Walton.The programme opened with a warmly affectionate performance of Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

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Londres

31 juil. 2012

Prom 23: A varied menu of early 20th-century English music

Par Jane Shuttleworth