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L’équipe du Komische Oper redonne des ailes aux beaux oiseaux de La Cage aux folles, dans la mise en scène de Barrie Kosky : un condensé d’humour, de bonne humeur et de contemporanéité.

Emeline Bayart signe une mise en scène astucieuse et incarne à merveille son personnage mais le texte de Sacha Guitry paraît désormais faiblard, comme la musique de Reynaldo Hahn.

La mise en scène extraordinairement inventive de Christian Hecq et Valérie Lesort, la distribution impeccable, la direction musicale de Maxime Pascal, l'orchestration d'Arthur Lavandier : tout est réjouissant dans cette comédie musicale !

Le Festival de Menton met en lumière les plus célèbres airs de Broadway magnifiés par l’interprétation de Natalie Dessay et de ses invités surprise.

Grand succès lors de sa création à Broadway en 1954, la comédie musicale fait le plein au Théâtre de la Renaissance d'Oullins pour deux heures d'un spectacle réjouissant.

Barrie Kosky, qui célèbre sa dixième et ultime saison à la tête du Komische Oper, se fait un petit plaisir en reprogrammant la production créée en 2017, qui n'a pas pris une ride.    

En compagnie de William Christie et ses Arts Florissants, la mezzo Lea Desandre et le contre-ténor Jakub Józef Orliński ont réservé une soirée délectable avec leur programme très original.   

Pour célébrer le centenaire de sa naissance, l'opéra de Nice rend un hommage festif à Bernstein avec Wonderful Town. 

65 ans ! Il en aura fallu du temps pour voir enfin créé en France Wonderful Town de Bernstein. Rendons donc les honneurs à l’Opéra de Toulon pour avoir osé présenter en version scénique cette œuvre (trop) rare.

Between gigs at Wembley as Coldplay’s support act, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra brings its distinctive brand of infectious music-making to the Southbank.

An evening of audience roars begins as soon as Gustavo Dudamel first mounts the podium at the Barbican. 

Pretty Yende y Nadine Sierra se entregaron al placer de cantar en compañía y ofrecieron un recital brillante con un perfecto entendimiento entre ambas.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin invites the Marcus Roberts Trio in place of a traditional soloist, and the group brings a freewheeling, improvisatory touch to Gershwin's masterpiece. 

The classical singer's repertoire encompasses showtunes, spirituals and folk songs, alongside a more traditional selection of Lieder.

La Temporada Lírica de La Coruña cierra la edición de 2023 con una magnífica velada operística y las voces Marina Monzó y Miren Urbieta-Vega.

The Prague National Theatre serves up a bright finish to its insightful, troubling tour of interwar music. 

Heinrich Heine settings by Schumann and Schubert are counter-balanced by Duparc and Cole Porter in a Temple Song recital reflecting on night and day.

The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel and cuatro player Jorge Glem set the Edinburgh International Festival alight with a mix of Venezuelan music and a terrific Mahler 1. 

Setting the life of Vera Brittain to the music of Ivor Novello, Buxton Festival's new musical is a welcome if overambitious showcase for them both.

Thanks to Barrie Kosky's flamboyant imagination and a solid cast, the Komische Oper's new production of La Cage aux Folles glitters, but could be more gay.

Kurt Weill's musical, with its focus on psychoanalysis, makes its Austrian premiere in the city of Sigmund Freud. 

In place of a full musical, this revue highlighted classic and contemporary songs that celebrate places and cultures, although some selections seemed questionable out of context.

As the UK continues to emerge from lockdown, Leeds Playhouse and Opera North stage Sondheim. 

A wide-ranging programme from the shape-shifting ensemble at Wigmore Hall explores love in its many guises. 

So schön das Orchester im Walzertakt schwingt, so lustlos und unschön sind Beschallung und Inszenierung.

Movement was so effectively utilised in this production, with elements of ballet, modern and Scottish folk melded in true Agnes de Mille fashion.

Programming Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music is quite a daring move in a country with no real tradition in musical. This production by Nederlands Reisopera shows that fortune favours the bold.

Las dotes interpretativas de Bryn Terfel salvan un recital en el que la música no fue la protagonista.

John Wilson was constantly persuading the orchestra to dig deep and to unearth the riches and miracles in the orchestral writing.

Einen weiten Bogen spannten Amarcord Wien und Iris Vermillion bei der Styriarte; von Schönbergs Brettl-Liedern über Weills Opern bis hin zu Stolz‘schen Operettenmelodien.

In the year of the centenary of Claude Debussy's death, pianist Denis Kozhukhin gave a heady and colourful performance of music by Debussy and George Gerswhin, a composer deeply influenced by his French counterpart.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Elgar, Rachmaninov and Sibelius with pianist Kathryn Stott.

Cast and choir snaked and kicked their legs through the aisles of the hall – picking up audience members along the way – leading to a riotous on-stage dance.

“Fiddler on the Roof” as a universal parable of tradition 

Nathaniel Hackmann, a stocky baritone with the tenderest of timbres, was like a reincarnation of Alfred Drake.

Under the baton of John Wilson, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra played Bernstein’s music with jazzy verve. The fine team of vocal soloists was lead by Kim Criswell.

Cristian Măcelaru and the Hallé give exemplary accounts of Fauré's Dolly Suite and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, whilst Mozart's “Jeunehomme” Concerto with soloist Heejae Kim is variable and lacks instrumetal balance.  

In einer reich bebilderten und bunt ausgestatteten Revue erweckt der Dirigent Matthew Toogood das Erfolgsmusical vom Broadway auf der Opernbühne zu neuem Leben.

To open the new season, the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot were joined by star mezzo Joyce DiDonato, whose performance sent listeners over the top and over the rainbow.

What a delight to revisit this 60th anniversary production of My Fair Lady in the directorial hands of its original Eliza, Dame Julie Andrews. 

The BBC Concert Orchestra and Keith Lockhart offered a snapshot of the Bard's lasting artistic impact with music for composed for stage and screen, from this side of the Atlantic and beyond the pond.

The Palestine Youth Orchestra on their first UK tour perform a lively mix of Western and Arabic music with passion and a strong humanitarian message in the programming.

Celebrating Youth, Music and Education in Roof-Raising Style: Ten Pieces Secondary comes to the BBC Proms 

Bernstein's On the Town is luxuriously cast, crisply played, and impressively danced in a much-more-than-semi-staged production at the San Francisco Symphony.

Klassisch inszeniert und schwungvoll musiziert wird die Wandlung einer oststeirischen Eliza Doolittle vom „gscheatn Bleamalmadls“ zur Lady in der Grazer Oper zum kurzweiligen Vergnügen. 

Sounds of Mali, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Madagascar blended to perfection with Colombia to create a masterpiece. 

Frederick Loewes My Fair Lady im englischen Original mit anspruchsvollem Bild an der Oper Köln.

Flags, balloons and musical revelry bring the BBC Proms season to a close. 

Marking 25 years since the death of Leonard Bernstein, Prom 67 celebrated his writing for stage and screen in a lively and colourful performance by the John Wilson Orchestra.