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LondonDas Paradies und die Peri

© Gisela Schenker
Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri (Paradise and the Peri)
London Philharmonic Orchestra; Edward Gardner; Christiane Karg; Samantha Clarke; Beth Taylor; Robert Murray

SydneySimone Young conducts GötterdämmerungConcert performance

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Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Simone Young; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Sydney Philharmonia Choirs; Klaus Florian Vogt; Anja Kampe

Perth WAHandel’s Messiah

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Handel: Messiah
West Australian Symphony Orchestra; Chad Kelly; Samantha Clarke; Ashlyn Tymms; Alasdair Kent; James Clayton
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A beautifully sung and performed Roméo et Juliette in Perth

Samantha Clarke (Juliette) and Alasdair Kent (Roméo) © West Beach Studio
Samantha Clarke and Alasdair Kent are perfectly cast as Gounod's star crossed lovers with an excellent supporting cast at West Australian Opera. 
****1
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An acrobatic Orpheus and Eurydice in Edinburgh

Orpheus and Eurydice © Jess Shurte
The music plays second fiddle to Australian circus company Circa in Yaron Lifschitz’s production of Gluck's great opera. 
***11
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A peerless Violetta in Opera Australia's Traviata revival

Samantha Clarke (Violetta) and Opera Australia Chorus © Guy Davies
Emotions on stage are matched by those rising from the pit as Sarah Giles' popular production returns to Sydney. 
****1
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Julius Caesar – or some of it – from Pinchgut Opera

Samantha Clarke (Cleopatra) and Tim Mead (Giulio Cesare) © Brett Boardman
Handel's Giulio Cesare is heavily abridged in Sydney, but generally well-performed musically, albeit with a rather awkward staging by Neil Armfield. 
***11
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Mozart in Perth: excellent soloists, well-honed choir and orchestra

Umberto Clerici conducts the West Australian Symphony Orchestra © Rebecca Mansell
An over-enthusiastic audience distracts from an excellent performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Choir with a first class quartet of soloists.
****1
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A tribute to Holst at Gloucester Cathedral

Adrian Partington © Still Moving Media for Cheltenham Festivals
An eclectic evening of vividly communicative music-making in Gloucester Cathedral, superbly directed by Adrian Partington. 
****1
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