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Contemplating death: two Strauss swansongs and a prankster’s end in Barcelona

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“nose-thumbing French Horns and smirking clarinet”
Reviewed at Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona on 28 April 2018
Strauss R., Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op.28
Strauss R., Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op.24
Strauss R., Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
Jacquelyn Wagner, Soprano
Josep Pons, Conductor
Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu
The starry trio of Davidsen-Hilley-Mälkki saves Tristan und Isolde
****1
Ballo del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma: a fresh look at Swan Lake
***11
Àlex Ollé's La bohème gets an unfair reception at the Liceu
*****
Aleu's video brilliance powers a dystopian Liceu Turandot
*****
Thomas’ Hamlet in concert at the Liceu
****1
Vocal sparkle but a dull staging in the Liceu's Puritani
****1
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