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Thrilling moments in Alexander’s Feast at the Three Choirs Festival

Par David Truslove, 29 juillet 2025

A rare performance of one of Handel’s choral extravaganzas, given a forthright outing in Hereford Cathedral that highlights the power, if not the subtlety, of music.

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Hereford

31 juil. 2025

Thrilling moments in Alexander’s Feast at the Three Choirs Festival

Par David Truslove

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Londres

Leonard Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone

Par Stephen Pritchard, 10 octobre 2024

Henry Neill gives a devastating performance as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti in The Royal Opera’s Bernstein double bill in the Linbury Theatre.

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Londres

11 oct. 2024

Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone

Par Stephen Pritchard

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Londres

Fairy style for the Fairest Isle: King Arthur at Temple Church

Par Roy Westbrook, 27 septembre 2023

A concert performance of a Purcell semi-opera can never fully succeed, but compromise is worth it, if it enables us to hear a significant part of a major composer's output.

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Londres

28 sept. 2023

Fairy style for the Fairest Isle: King Arthur at Temple Church

Par Roy Westbrook

Londres

Betrayal, blood and benediction: Polyphony and the OAE’s dramatic St John Passion

Par Roy Westbrook, 07 avril 2023

Whether surrounded by lanterns and weapons, or musicians and fellow congregation members, one is deeply involved in this work.

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Londres

08 avril 2023

Polyphony and the OAE’s dramatic St John Passion

Par Roy Westbrook

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Edimbourg

Richard Egarr conducts lively Israel in Egypt from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Par David Smythe, 01 décembre 2022

Handel's chorus-heavy oratorio fielded a dream team of distinguished soloists.

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Edimbourg

02 déc. 2022

Lively Israel in Egypt from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Par David Smythe

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Glyndebourne

Strictly Alcina: Handel as Fellini fantasy cabaret at Glyndebourne

Par Mark Pullinger, 02 juillet 2022

Director Francesco Micheli undersells Handel in this Glyndebourne debut, but there's plenty of froth to keep the audience entertained.

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Glyndebourne

03 juil. 2022

Strictly Alcina: Handel as Fellini fantasy cabaret at Glyndebourne

Par Mark Pullinger

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Londres

Weihnachten bei Bach in Leipzig mit Paul McCreeshs Gabrielis in der Wigmore Hall

Par Jens Klier, 10 décembre 2021

Leider litt die rekonstruierte Weihnachtsmesse der Gabrieli Players an ein paar „Aufführungskrankheiten“.

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Londres

11 déc. 2021

Weihnachten bei Bach in Leipzig mit Paul McCreeshs Gabrielis

Par Jens Klier

Londres

The Gospel according to St Mark: Padmore and the OAE at Battersea Arts Centre

Par Roy Westbrook, 02 avril 2021

This Evangelist had just come straight from Golgotha, where he had witnessed events so momentous he was compelled to recount them at once.

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Londres

05 avril 2021

The Gospel according to St Mark: Padmore and the OAE in Battersea

Par Roy Westbrook

Londres

The Academy of Ancient Music reconnects us to a more genuine Messiah

Par Edward Sava-Segal, 19 décembre 2020

Richard Egarr was able to put together a performance that – full of energy and dynamism – succeeded in bringing forward with great transparency, restraint and delicacy this score’s wonderful musical tapestry.

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Londres

20 déc. 2020

The Academy of Ancient Music reconnects us to a more genuine Messiah

Par Edward Sava-Segal

Londres

In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Par Stephen Pritchard, 20 octobre 2020

Handel’s Italian cantata Apollo and Daphne is enjoying a Covid wave, perfect as it is for socially-distanced singing.

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Londres

21 oct. 2020

In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the OAE

Par Stephen Pritchard

Londres

Comedy with knobs on: English National Opera's new Figaro

Par Benjamin Poore, 14 mars 2020

A witty, insightful production at the Coliseum fizzes with comedy and pathos.

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Londres

16 mars 2020

Comedy with knobs on: English National Opera's new Figaro

Par Benjamin Poore

Los Angeles

Academy of Ancient Music on brilliant form at Disney Hall

Par Laurence Vittes, 11 décembre 2019

The Academy of Ancient Music played with such stylistic elegance, charm and sheer physical beauty that it was like hearing I Musici and Virtuosi di Roma for the first time in this repertoire in the 1950s.

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Los Angeles

15 déc. 2019

Academy of Ancient Music on brilliant form at Disney Hall

Par Laurence Vittes

Londres

The Gabrielis shine in Purcell's confusing King Arthur

Par Mark Valencia, 30 octobre 2019

King Arthur is an opera without a plot and, in musical terms at least, Arthur without the King.

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Londres

31 oct. 2019

The Gabrielis shine in Purcell's confusing King Arthur

Par Mark Valencia

Bucarest

The power of music: Iestyn Davies in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at Enescu Festival

Par Edward Sava-Segal, 07 septembre 2019

Centuries can envelop a musical masterpiece in a cocoon of misconceptions and false interpretations as much they leave their mark in the form of dirt and grime on a painting’s surface.

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Bucarest

09 sept. 2019

The power of music: Iestyn Davies in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

Par Edward Sava-Segal

Londres

Prom 55: uneven soloists in Handel's Jephtha

Par Stephen Pritchard, 30 août 2019

Poor diction and lack of heft from some principals mar the composer's last great oratorio.

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Londres

31 août 2019

Prom 55: uneven soloists in Handel's Jephtha

Par Stephen Pritchard

Alresford

Matrimonial mayhem: Le nozze di Figaro at The Grange Festival

Par Dominic Lowe, 06 juin 2019

Lloyd-Evans' new production of Mozart's classic might be traditional, but there's no lack of astuteness in his direction of his characters. Problems in the pit hinder an otherwise strong musical performance.

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Alresford

08 juin 2019

Matrimonial mayhem: Le nozze di Figaro at The Grange Festival

Par Dominic Lowe

Londres

Singing animals, heroic lumberjacks, pure melody and riotous entertainment in ENO's Paul Bunyan

Par David Karlin, 09 mai 2019

The American Dream hits Ally Pally in a vivacious performance of Britten's eclectic operetta, headlined by an ENO chorus who knock it out of the park.

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Londres

10 mai 2019

Pure melody and riotous entertainment: ENO's Paul Bunyan

Par David Karlin

Londres

Simon McBurney's Magic Flute makes a joyous return to ENO

Par Dominic Lowe, 14 mars 2019

Simon McBurney's production of The Magic Flute continues to delight and this revival benefits from a strong cast, led by the superb Lucy Crowe as Pamina.

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Londres

16 mars 2019

Simon McBurney's Magic Flute makes a joyous return to ENO

Par Dominic Lowe

Londres

Stark and grief-stricken: Dido and Aeneas at the Barbican

Par Benjamin Poore, 02 octobre 2018

A semi-staged Dido from the Academy of Ancient Music and the speculative funeral music for a queen.

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Londres

04 oct. 2018

Stark and grief-stricken: Dido and Aeneas at the Barbican

Par Benjamin Poore

Londres

New world created in old music hall: Paul Bunyan at Wilton's

Par Roy Westbrook, 03 septembre 2018

Not since Monty Python has there been more fun with a chorus of lumberjacks.

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Londres

04 sept. 2018

New world created in old music hall: Paul Bunyan at Wilton's

Par Roy Westbrook

Liverpool

Hough in exemplary Beethoven before Manze’s Antarctic tour

Par Leighton Jones, 07 juin 2018

Andrew Manze conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in two English choral pieces; Stephen Hough brought a fitting conclusion to his Beethoven concerto cycle as artist-in-residence.

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Liverpool

08 juin 2018

Hough in exemplary Beethoven before Manze’s Antarctic tour

Par Leighton Jones

Eindhoven

Britannia 3 in 1: Orpheus, Genius, King Arthur oder Gabrielis elegante Feier Henry Pucells

Par Jens Klier, 08 avril 2018

Beinahe war dieser King Arthur so rund und erhaben schön, dass die fünf Akte auch zu fünf Sternen geführt hätten.

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Eindhoven

10 avril 2018

Gabrielis elegante Feier Henry Pucells

Par Jens Klier

Londres

Finely cast Orlando from La Nuova Musica

Par Nahoko Gotoh, 01 février 2018

Handel’s opera Orlando is famous for the great mad scene at the end of Act 2. Specifically written for the celebrated castrato Senesino, it’s an emotionally powerful ten-minute monologue.

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Londres

05 févr. 2018

Finely cast Orlando from La Nuova Musica

Par Nahoko Gotoh

Londres

Prom 23: An evening of angelic choruses

Par Marthe Lisson, 01 août 2017

A performance of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt performed by the Orchestra and Choir of the Age of the Enlightenment with William Christie conducting.

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Londres

04 août 2017

Prom 23: An evening of angelic choruses

Par Marthe Lisson

Londres

A Vespers on wilted wings: the AAM tackle Monteverdi

Par Olivia Bell, 23 juin 2017

Sublime orchestral playing and stellar soloists don't quite make up for a lacklustre performance by the Academy's choir in Monteverdi's moving work

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Londres

25 juin 2017

AAM tackle Monteverdi

Par Olivia Bell

Gateshead

The story of a nation: Royal Northern Sinfonia's Israel in Egypt

Par Jane Shuttleworth, 13 avril 2017

Nicholas McGegan leads Royal Northern Sinfonia and Samling soloists through a dramatic and thought-provoking performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt to offer an alternative look at the Easter message of hope.

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Gateshead

14 avril 2017

Royal Northern Sinfonia's Israel in Egypt

Par Jane Shuttleworth

Londres

Staging Purcell's Fairy Queen: an ingenious solution at the Barbican

Par Phil Barrett, 10 octobre 2016

Eschewing conventions throughout, Daisy Evans' production of The Fairy Queen walks boldly out of the woods into an exciting future for opera staging.

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Londres

12 oct. 2016

Staging Purcell's Fairy Queen

Par Phil Barrett

Cambridge

Small palette, big picture: Handel's Acis and Galatea in Cambridge

Par Charlotte Valori, 20 mai 2016

The Academy of Ancient Music gave a finely honed account of Handel's unusual "little opera", written for the Earl of Carnavon's household musicians: a sweet pastoral offering never yet out of the repertoire.

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Cambridge

26 mai 2016

Small palette, big picture: Acis and Galatea

Par Charlotte Valori

Gateshead

A bewitching L'Enfant et les sortilèges from Samling Academy Opera

Par Jane Shuttleworth, 31 juillet 2015

A child's world comes magically to life in Ravel's one-act lyric fantasy L'Enfant et les sortilèges in a beautiful production by the young singers of Samling Academy.

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Gateshead

01 août 2015

A bewitching L'Enfant et les sortilèges

Par Jane Shuttleworth

Londres

A very wicked village: Britten's Albert Herring at the Royal College of Music

Par Charlotte Valori, 02 juillet 2015

The laughs keep on coming in Liam Steel's glorious 1950s Albert Herring in an English village where pretensions rise as morals decay, while Nick Pritchard shines as our modest eponymous hero.

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Londres

06 juil. 2015

A very wicked village: Britten's Albert Herring at the RCM

Par Charlotte Valori