Reviews vom 30.6.2014
Prag
National Theater announces new opera schedule
http://praguepost.com/night-day/39831-national-theater-announces-new-opera-schedule
München
Triumphant role debut for Netrebko in a volcanic Munich Macbeth
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London
Judith Weir to be appointed first female master of Queen’s music
Scottish-born composer will succeed Peter Maxwell-Davies in role described as musical equivalent of poet laureate
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Weitere “Ariadne”-Review
Ariadne auf Naxos (Royal Opera House)
Karita Mattila makes a thrilling role debut as Ariadne in the Royal Opera’s latest revival of Strauss’ opera
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Glyndebourne
La Finta Giardiniera, Glyndebourne, review: ‘feeble and convoluted’
Rupert Christiansen laments Glyndebourne’s decision to perform La Finta Giardiniera, an early work by Mozart
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La Finta Giardiniera review –
rococo-styled Mozart fails to bloom Glyndebourne, Lewes Mozart’s early opera may lack the hits of his later works, but this production tries too hard to entertain
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La finta giardiniera @ Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes
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Washington
Giulio Cesare at Wolf Trap, Reviewed
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Santa Fe
Santa Fe Opera review: Bizet’s “Carmen’ takes a ’60s spin
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Color, flamboyance abound in “Carmen’
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Reviews vom 29.6.2014
Prag
Musical director of National Theatre Opera resigns
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London Noch eine „Adriane“-Review
Ariadne auf Naxos, Royal Opera House, London – review
Christof Loy’s production dares to define the genre, but ends up with a muddle-headed approach
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Philharmonia/Salonen, Royal Festival Hall, review:
‘cosmic’ Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s latest concerto is conventional by her standards, but no less powerful, says John Allison
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Nevoll Holt, Leicestershire
La Boheme, Nevill Holt Opera, review:
‘remarkably good’ Leicestershire’s Nevill Holt Opera puts on a fresh and convincing performance of Puccini’s La Boheme that does the business, says Rupert Christiansen
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Powys, Gregynog festival Christopher Maltman/Joseph Middleton
– deeply compassionate Llandinam Village Hall, Powys The soldiers who travelled from the Severn to the Somme were remembered with poignant and powerful results
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New York
A Modern Opera:
Fat Unions May Kill the Fat Lady Chorus members get extra pay if they wear their costumes at any break, including lunch, and for costume fittings.
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Weiterer Kommentar zur “Klinghoffer”-Thematik
Critic’s Notebook A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera
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Reviews vom 28.6.2014
New York
Kommentar von Manuel Brug über “The Death of Klinghoffer”:
Hasenfuß in New York
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Frankfurt
Liebeszauber in Zeit und Raum –
In Frankfurts Oper rührt Frederick Delius’ „A Village Romeo and Juliet“ zutiefst an
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Berlin/ Staatsoper
Rundgang in der Staatsoper: Als nächstes muss die Wand weg
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London
Why are salaries so markedly different between British and US orchestras?
Half a million bucks for leading the New York Philharmonic, while most US orchestral musicians earn around double what their British counterparts do. Why do we value our musicians so poorly?
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Weitere „Ariadne“-Review
Ariadne auf Naxos, Royal Opera House, review
‘An assured take on Strauss’s teasing amalgam of high-flown tragedy and ribald comedy’
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Razzling, dazzling good fun: La gazzetta at the Royal College of Music
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Sunwook Kim review – a young pianist to watch out for Stationers’ Hall, London
The Korean musician’s solo recital confirmed a maturity beyond his years
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Orkney
St Magnus International Festival, Orkney: review
Orkney’s St Magnus Festival celebrates the 80th birthday of Peter Maxwell Davies, who helped establish the event in 1977
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New York
Inner Musings on a Precarious Descent Michael Hersch’s New Opera, “On the Threshold of Winter’ read more
Boston Ballet, Lincoln Center, New York – review
Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the company performed Forsythe with majestic aplomb
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Artifice, Historical Transcendence and Cactus Plants Boston Ballet Visits Lincoln Center
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Santa Fe
Santa Fe Opera: The stage is set for the 58th season
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Peking
Rickshaw Boy, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing – review
A long-awaited and thoroughly rewarding premiere for the opera based on Lao She’s story
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Sidney
Opera review: Rigoletto (Opera Australia)
Some fine singing in this new production, but too little dramatic light shines amidst the gloom.
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Rigoletto review: Music speaks loud in Verdi’s grim symmetries
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Rigoletto review – claustrophobic drama about a broken court jester
Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House Opera Australia’s traditional rendition of the Verdi opera has the audience humming its famous tunes and eating out of Emma Matthews’ hand
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Reviews vom 27.6.2014
New York -eine aktuelle Todesnachricht:
Julius Rudel, Longtime City Opera Impresario, Dies at 93
“Julius Rudel was born in Vienna on March 6, 1921, (…). As a boy, he was a regular standee for performances of the Vienna State Opera, and at home he built opera sets in shoe boxes. By 16 he had written two short operas. His father died in 1938, and two months after Germany annexed Austria that year, Julius, his mother and a younger brother, Ludwig, made their way to New York.”
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Göttingen
Faromondo Händel
Festspiele Göttingen
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Neapel
Standing ovation for reigning bel canto queen Mariella Devia
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-mariella-devia-san-carlo-june-2014
London
Ariadne auf Naxos review – Karita Mattila is glorious as Strauss’s heroine
Royal Opera House, London The Finnish soprano impresses in her role debut, ably supported by a strong ensemble cast and Pappano in the pit
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Ariadne auf Naxos, Royal Opera
Two nymphs are the real revelation in this revival of Richard Strauss’s evergreen hybrid http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/ariadne-auf-naxos-royal-opera
Naxos capitulates, Mattila’s Ariadne reigns
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Call me George, London Coliseum, review: ‘a party’
The ENO’s tribute to the late Lord Harewood was a fittingly imaginative and outrageous occasion, says Rupert Christiansen
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New York
Metropolitan Opera Offices Vandalized, Police and Company Say
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The Met’s “Klinghoffer” Problem
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Philharmonic wraps season with Bronfman’s bravura and Dicterow farewell
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Sidney/ Interview
Opera Australia’s Emma Matthews makes rainbow gesture to help rebuild faith after Iveri debacle
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Reviews vom 26.6.2014
Berlin
Macbeth, former Staatsoper rehearsal hall, Berlin – Review
Bizarre surroundings and strong playing add magic to this new staging of Salvatore Sciarrino’s chamber opera
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Moskau
Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow – Review
The British company makes a rare visit to Russia with a mix of old and new repertoire
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London
Soprano Karita Mattila: ‘It’s never too late for a debut’
At 53, the great soprano Karita Mattila can still take her pick of the big parts. She explains why she’s raring to play one of opera’s great monsters
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Tanz
Fabulous Beast: Rian
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-fabulous-beast-rian-june-2014
Longborough
Tosca, Longborough Festival
Puccini in a Gloucestershire barn impresses despite first night tremors
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/tosca-longborough-festival
Aldeburgh
Winterreise, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, UK – Review
Thomas Adès and Ian Bostridge gave a performance that lived up to expectation
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New York
Arias in the Park on a Summer’s Eve
At SummerStage, Metropolitan Opera’s Recital Series Begins
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Mediations and Mutiny Backstage
Glenn Dicterow Discusses Leaving New York Philharmonic
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Boston
A Rarity Bursts Into Bloom
Forsythe Coaches Boston Ballet in “The Second Detail’
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San Francisco
The Classical Style, Berkeley/Anya 17, San Francisco – Review
Local premieres for two operas, one wryly whimsical, the other grimly hard-hitting
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Los Angeles
The LA Opera Presents Its 2014-2015 Season Preview
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Sidney
Opera Australia announces Lianna Haroutounian as Tamar Iveri’s replacement
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Feuilleton
How well do you know opera? Take our quiz!
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Reviews vom 25.6.2014
40 Under 40: The Next Generation of Great Opera Singers – Part Two
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Mailand
A chic Così fan tutte at La Scala
“Rolando Villazón fared badly in the bear pit of the Teatro alla Scala, and received curtain call boos for his realisation of Ferrando. His voice tightened as he struggled through the signature “Un’aura amorosa”, and there was a telling ‘dead’ quality to his sound. The biggest cheers were saved for Adam Plachetka and Michele Pertusi who were magnificent in their respective roles.”
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-cosi-la-scala-barenboim-june-2014
Amsterdam
A vibrant new production of The Tempest by Dutch National Ballet
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-dnb-the-tempest-holland-festival-june-2014
London
Why English National Opera needs to back British singers
Rupert Christiansen applauds the late Earl of Harewood’s work with English National Opera but looks forward to a new era for the company
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Tanz
Sibi Larbi Cherkaoui: 4D, Sadler’s Wells, review: ‘truly dazzling’
Sibi Larbi Cherkaoui’s compelling new programme is preoccupied with the fundamental needs of humans, says Mark Monahan
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Aldeburgh
Classical music to the theme of war
A Benjamin Britten Opera Opens Aldeburgh Festival
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Aldeburgh festival review –
pioneering accordion and harpsichord in the smaller venues Snape Maltings and various venues A sea spray-soaked accordion concert was among the virtuoso performances that conjured up the innovation of Britten’s earliest festivals
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Wormsley, Buckinghamshire
The Cunning Little Vixen, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire, UK – review
The rolling hills at Wormsley make an ideal backdrop for Janáček’s opera
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The Cunning Little Vixen @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley
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The Cunning Little Vixen, Garsington Opera
Human yearning trumps animal cutesiness in Daniel Slater’s thoughtful Janáček
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/cunning-little-vixen-garsington-opera
Arlesford, Hampshire
Weitere “Don Quichotte”-Review
Don Quichotte, Grange Park Opera
Proof that Massenet’s Cervantes opera is a work of variety, poignancy and emotional depth
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/don-quichotte-grange-park-opera
New York
Early Music and Its Future
The weeklong Early Music Festival: NYC showed that the city has the potential to catch up to Boston and San Francisco.
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St. Louis
Dialogues of the Carmelites/The Elixir of Love, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Missouri – review
An austere Poulenc production, and a finely sung account of Donizetti’s comedy
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Goethe-Medaille posthum an Gerard Mortier
Dem heuer verstorbenen Musikpionier und Kulturmanager wird im August mit einer besonderen Ehrung gedacht.
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Berlin
Oskar Schlemmers Tänzer kehren zurück: Marionetten sind wir
Epochales Meisterwerk der Avantgarde: „Das Triadische Ballett” von Oskar Schlemmer wird in Berlin neu aufgeführt.
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Dieser Mann hat bald 1000. Opern gesehen
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Friede, Liebe und Homophobie
Tamar Iveri hat ihr Facebook-Profil geändert
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Reviews vom 24.6.2014
Berlin
Zufall Liebe
Love Affairs“ in der Deutschen Oper
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Ohne Holzhammer – Yona Kim inszeniert „Die Vögel“ von Walter Braunfels am Theater Osnabrück
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Graz/ Styriarte
Der Schönberg-Chor feiert Pyjamaparty
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Sidney
Homophobie-Vorwurf: Oper Sydney trennt sich von Tamar Iveri
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Wegen angeblicher Homophobie Engagements verloren
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Mörbisch
Seefestspiele wollen Geld vom Bund
Eine Delegation der Seefestspiele Mörbisch hat am Montag einen Termin bei Kulturminister Josef Ostermayer (SPÖ) gehabt. Es geht um finanzielle Unterstützung des Bundes. Danach zeigte sich die Delegation optimistisch was eine Förderung angeht.
http://burgenland.orf.at/news/stories/2653911/
Berlin
Soheil Nasseri ist der Klassik-Missionar von Prenzlauer Berg
Vor acht Jahren zog der Star-Pianist Soheil Nasseri nach Berlin, um vor allem junge Menschen mit seiner Klassik zu begeistern. Längst hat er viele Freunde gefunden – und ist begeistert von Europa.
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Amsterdam
Space warps time in Luigi Nono’s Prometeo at the Holland Festival
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London
Delicious downtime with the Duchess: La descente d’Orphée aux enfers with the Early Opera Company
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Arlesford, Hampshire
Don Quichotte, Grange Park Opera, Hampshire – review
Massenet becomes the lead character in his own opera in Charles Edwards’s handsome staging
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Don Quichotte review – meta-operatic twist on Massenet Grange Park, Hampshire
The impact of Massenet’s 1910 Cervantes adaptation gets lost in the effort to weave in a second story about the composer’s late-life struggles with modernism
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Cardiff
The Fall of the House of Usher, Welsh National Opera
Frail genius and high finance come together in an unbalanced pair of crumbling houses
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New York
Tanz
Writhing Upon the Shoulders of Giants “Monte/Buglisi/Muller Live!’ at New York Live Arts
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St. Louis /Weitere Review zu neuer Getrude Stein-Oper
27, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Missouri – review
Stephanie Blythe is Gertrude Stein in Ricky Ian Gordon’s finely crafted but slightly bland new opera
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San Francisco Opera
America conferees in S.F. applaud continuing existence
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Sidney
Soprano Tamar Iveri released by Opera Australia for anti-gay comments
Public angry after posting on the Georgian singer’s Facebook page appears to describe gay people as ‘faecal masses
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Reviews vom 23.6.2014
Utrecht
Tanz Renewing controversial classics: Introdans’ Russian Rumour
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-introdans-russian-rumour-june-2014
Aldebourgh
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Aldeburgh Festival, review
Thomas Adès created a sense of danger as he steered the CBSO from the winsome daintiness of Ravel to his own awesome vision of outer space
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New York
Bronfman, Gilbert and Philharmonic serve up slack and tired Beethoven
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Dallas / San Diego
Dallas Opera Teams with San Diego Opera
The Dallas Opera’s previously announced world premiere of Great Scott in 2015 will now be co-produced with the recently saved San Diego Opera.
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Sidney
Opera Australia under pressure to dismiss Tamar Iveri
Georgian soprano ‘replaced’ in Belgium as her story comes under scrutiny at home.
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Opera star Tamar Iveri blames husband for Facebook post describing gay people as “sewage’ read more
Reviews vom 22.6.2014
Perm
Nosferatu, Perm Opera Ballet Theatre, Russia – review
Kurlyandsky’s radical new opera could more accurately be described as sound-and-art installation and performance piece
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London
Orchestral manoeuvres in the car park
Level seven of a multi-storey car park in southeast London isn’t where you’d expect to hear Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony. Nonetheless, that’s where the Multi-Story orchestra are performing. Founders Kate Whitley and Christopher Stark explain how it works
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New York
The Klinghoffer Tragedy
Chances Lost in Dispute Over Opera What “The Death of Klinghoffer’ Could Have Accomplished
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The Met’s Bad Decision on a Controversial Opera
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Meinungen zum „Klinghoffer“-Thematik u.a. mit einer Stellungnahme der Kinder des 1985 ernordeten Leon Klinghoffer, nach dem die Oper benannt ist
“Klinghoffer’: The Opera and the Furor
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The Met’s senseless “Klinghoffer’ copout
Nobody should be fooled by this ‘concession’
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Tanz Twisty, Grindy and Brightly Hued Alvin Ailey Troupe Performs Van Manen’s “Polish Pieces’
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St. Louis Opera: A too-fluttery “Magic Flute’ in St. Louis
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Feuilleton/Interview
A Survivor, Inspired by Love and Loss
Michael Hersch’s New Opera Reflects on a Friend’s Death
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Reviews vom 21.6.2014
London
Weitere Reviews zu “Quartett”:
Quartett, Linbury Studio Theatre, London – review
Only at the end of Luca Francesconi’s 2011 opera are there glimpses of a powerful work
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Luca Francesconi: do you dare go to his opera?
It’s violent, blasphemous, nihilistic and cynical. Composer Luca Francesconi tells Tom Service why his end-of-world opera Quartett is essential viewing.
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Swan Lake, Sadler’s Wells, review: ‘boldly gender-blind’
Dada Masilo’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells is not a life-changing production, but still worth visiting, says Mark Monahan
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LSO/Luisi/De la Salle review – powerful and convincing debut Barbican, London
Luisi showed his suppleness in large-scale Mozart, with De la Salle the distinctive young soloist, and a thrilling performance of Bruckner’s original Eighth Symphony
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Birmingham
A striking UK première and superlative Strauss from the CBSO under Andris Nelsons http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-nelsons-hannigan-cbso-june-2014
Chicago
Muti is back for a gracious evening of Viennese Classicism and a bittersweet farewell
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St. Louis/Weitere Review zur Getrude Stein-Oper:
This is What Happens
Despite production flaws at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the cast sings beautifully and Ricky Ian Gordon’s music is brilliant in the world premiere of 27, about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
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Sidney Tamar Iveri outed as homophobe on eve of Australian performances
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Opera pressured to sack soprano over gay slur
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Reviews vom 20.6.2014
Berlin
A strong and emotional Werther from the Deutsche Oper Berlin
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Rom
Italy’s Opera Crisis
Government austerity measures are leaving storied theaters in a lurch
http://online.wsj.com/articles/italys-opera-crisis-1403189242
London
Nachträge zu „Manon Lescaut“
Manon Lescaut, Royal Opera House, review:
‘soulless production’ The Royal Opera’s first presentation of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut for more than 30 years is perhaps the visually ugliest show at Covent Garden in living memory
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Manon Lescaut, Royal Opera House, London – review
Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann give terrific performances in Jonathan Kent’s production
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Quartett (Royal Opera House)
The UK premiere of Luca Francesconi’s ‘post-apolcalyptic opera’ is presented in a reconfigured Linbury Studio read more
Quartett, Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre, review: ‘
A shameful waste of money and talent’
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Quartett, review: ‘generic wittering’
The Royal Opera House does its best with Quartett, by Luca Francesconi, but the music is lacking in urgency, says Rupert Christiansen
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Quartett, Linbury Studio Theatre, London – review
Only at the end of Luca Francesconi’s 2011 opera are there glimpses of a powerful work http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8c386cc4-f796-11e3-90fa-00144feabdc0.html
New York
“Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision
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Bachfest Celebrates Monteverdi Choir’s 50th Anniversary
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Going Past the Grave to Gain
His Love American Ballet Theater Performs “Giselle’
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Washington
The War on Racism ‘
An American Soldier’ relays the true story of Pvt. Danny Chen.
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St. Louis
Gertrude Stein sings in new opera in St. Louis
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BWW Reviews: OTSL’s ’27′ Opens to Ovations
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Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas come to operatic life in St. Louis
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Reviews vom 19.6.2014
London
Manon Lescaut, Royal Opera House, review: ‘Radiates a very modern sleaziness’
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Manon Lescaut, Royal Opera
Vibrant, peerless singers and conductor sapped by invertebrate monster production
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/manon-lescaut-royal-opera
Bryn Terfel has ‘enormous’ stage presence in Placido Domingo’s Tosca
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New York
Met Opera Cancels Simulcast of “Klinghoffer’
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Drifters Look for Work; One of Them Finds Love Copland’s “The Tender Land’ Is Revived by Chelsea Opera
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Miami
Florida Grand Opera Announces 2014-2015 Lineup
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Masada, Israel
From Paris, with sand: La Traviata
opera rocks desert fortress Verdi’s tragic love story draws thousands to the foot of Masada, a dramatic mountain fortress where Jews jumped to their deaths rather than be captured by Romans.
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Reviews vom 18.6.2014
Budapest
Adam Fischer and Iréne Théorin make an unforgettable Götterdämmerung
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-gotterdammerung-budapest-june-2014
Paris
At Paris Opera, a Traditional “Traviata’ as Verdi Envisione
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London
The Pearl Fishers review – ENO’s large-scale, but hit-and-miss production
London Coliseum
A young cast struggle to bring Bizet’s cardboard characters to life
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/17/the-pearl-fishers-review-eno
The Pearl Fishers, English National Opera
Second-tier opera in visually impressive and dramatically improved Revival
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/pearl-fishers-english-national-opera-0
Musical grit mars a pearl of a production
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-pearl-fishers-english-national-opera-june-2014
Aldebourgh
Aldeburgh Festival 2014, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK – Review
Janáček’s highly individual chamber works have been a particular theme this year
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New York
Met Opera Tax Filing Reveals Pay For Gelb
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Met Opera General Manager Earned $1.8 Million in 2012
Disclosure of Salary Comes as Union Members Are Asked to Take 16 % Pay Cut
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Matsuev finds moments of calm amid rushing impetuosity
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Tanz
Premieres at Ailey, Lincoln Center, New York – Review
Two programmes suggested that the Alvin Ailey troupe has entered a bright new era
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Hartfort
“Ring’ Cycle With Digital Orchestra Is Postponed
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San Francisco
‘Madama Butterfly’ review: Patricia Racette lifts S.F. Opera
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Review: San Francisco Opera’s sumptuous ‘Madama Butterfly
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The Tragedy of Butterfly
San Francisco Opera
https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-opera/the-tragedy-of-butterfly
San Francisco Symphony, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco – Review
Michael Tilson Thomas revived one of Britten’s least performed orchestral works
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Reviews vom 17.6.2014
Amsterdam
At the Holland Festival, Bejun Mehta is a riveting Orlando
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-handel-orlando-holland-festival-june-2014
London
BBC’s Ten Pieces brings classical music to new generation
New UK-wide initiative will introduce primary-school children to key classical works and inspire their own creativity
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Triptych; John Tavener memorial service – review
Wilton’s Music Hall; Westminster Abbey, London Opera Erratica worked wonders with a cast of five. And the bells rang out for John Tavener
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Aldeburgh
Weitere “Owen Wingrave”-Reviews
Owen Wingrave, Aldeburgh Festival, opera review: ‘Brilliant pianism’
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Aldeburgh Festival 2014, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK – review
In this first world war centenary year, Britten’s pacifist opera was an appropriate centrepiece
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Birmingham
La fille mal gardée, Birmingham Hippodrome – review
Ashton’s ballet was gremlin-free and gorgeously danced
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Leeds/ Nachtrag zur “Götterdämmerung”
Götterdämmerung, review: ‘a tremendous achievement’
As Opera North’s Ring reaches its climax, Rupert Christiansen is impressed
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Cardiff
Verdi : Nabucco / Welsh National Opera, 8th June 2014
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New York
Chelsea Opera finds the humanity in Copland’s slight “Tender Land”
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A Long Day’s Bach Journey, by Train, Foot and Ferry, With Cello
“A Suite Ride Through NYC,’ Featuring Paul Dwyer
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Chicago
“Romeo und Julia” Kalmar, Grant Park Orchestra take flight (indoors) with Berlioz rarity
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Reviews vom 16.6.2014
Budapest
Extreme emotions for extreme events: Die Walküre in Budapest
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-die-walkure-budapest-june-2014
Gerhard Siegel outstanding in Siegfried in Budapest
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Leipzig
Marble and grit in Strauss’ ‘problem child’ in Leipzig
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London
Prohaska, Wigmore Hall
Soprano Anna Prohaska triumphs in a kaleidoscopic tour of war’s battlefields http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/prohaska-wigmore-hall
Leeds
Götterdämmerung review – belt-and-braces Wagner Town Hall, Leeds
The sheer sound-pressure levels attained exemplified that this project has principally been the orchestra’s
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Götterdämmerung, Opera North
Semi-staged Wagner continues to hit the heights http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/g%C3%B6tterd%C3%A4mmerung-opera-north
Cardiff
Usher House/The Fall of the House of Usher review –
a tale of two houses Millennium Centre, Cardiff While Gordon Getty’s treatment of the story was dull and dramatically plodding, Robert Orledge’s economic and evocative version was far more involving
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Palm Beach
Palm Beach Opera’s turnaround cited as national example
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Perth
Opera review: The Emperor Of Atlantis (Lost & Found Opera)
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Feuilleton
Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera
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“Capriccio” auf DVD: Ganz intim mit Richard Strauss
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Reviews vom 15.6.2014
Amsterdam
Food, Glorious Food: Falstaff at the Holland Festival
Is a Feast for the Eyes and Ears
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-falstaff-holland-festival-jun-2014
Madrid
All those voices: I Vespri Siciliani in concert
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-vespri-siciliani-madrid-june-2014
London
The mixed joys of country-house opera
Balancing art and commerce, these strange rituals of the English summer show an amazing capacity to thrive
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Outstanding performances in ENB’s Romeo & Juliet in-the-round
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-romeo-and-juliet-enb-june-2014
Romeo and Juliet, Royal Albert Hall, London – review
The second act can be surprisingly tedious but rampaging swordplay and vivid character playing gave it real dramatic force
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Aldebourgh
Owen Wingrave, Aldeburgh Festival, review: ‘mismatch’ Neil Bartlett’s production of Owen Wingrave for the Aldeburgh Festival takes the wrong approach to this Cinderella among Britten’s operas, says Ivan Hewett
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Cardiff
The Fall of the House of Usher, WNO, review:
‘interesting failure’ Welsh National Opera’s double bill offers atmosphere but dull music, says Rupert Christiansen
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New York
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux
The Opera Orchestra of New York | The New York Choral Ensemble Carnegie Hall, New York, 14 June 2014
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/carnegie-devia-0614.shtml
Revealing Art, Bursting at the Seams of Control
“Atthis,’ a Searing Monodrama by Opera Cabal and ACME
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The Duet
Between the Right Brain and the Left Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Performs at BAM
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Pittsburgh
Review: Opera ‘Elektra’ salutes Strauss
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Long Beach
Long Beach Opera Announces 2015 Season
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Cincinnati Review: Opera’s ‘Carmen’ lacks fire
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San Francisco
Review Roundup: San Francisco Opera’s LA TRAVIATA
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Feuilleton
Jonas Kaufmann: the world’s greatest tenor
He is fluent in four languages, with an unparalleled vocal range and the instincts of an actor. Meet opera superstar Jonas Kaufmann
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Reviews vom 14.6.2014
Budapest
Who needs full staging? Das Rheingold at MüPa in Budapest
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-das-rheingold-budapest-jun-2014
London
A double-bill of Baroque rarities by the Guildhall School
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-baroque-rarities-gsmd-june-2014
Gateshead
Royal Northern Sinfonia, Sage Gateshead: ‘elegant and revolutionary’
Thomas Zehetmair’s farewell concert as director of Royal Northern Sinfonia was brimming with stimulating ideas, says Ivan Hewett
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Bath
La Rondine, review: ‘charm’ Iford Arts’ production of Puccini’s ‘problem child’ operetta is sensitive and well-cast, says Rupert Christiansen
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New York
Orpheus Descending and Arising Contrasts Illuminate Beethoven in Philharmonic Festival
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Philharmonic blends Bronfman and Beethoven with world premiere
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Boston
Odyssey Opera’s polished Verdi comedy fit for a king
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Chicago
Lyric adds two world-premiere operas for 2015
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Dallas
Dallas Opera Appoints Nicole Paiement
The new opera specialist becomes the Dallas Opera’s first Principal Guest Conductor, effective immediatel
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San Francisco
San Francisco’La Traviata’ review: Loveless S.F. Opera affair
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Review: Uneven ‘Traviata’ at San Francisco Opera
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Seattle
Kaori Nakamura’s Final Performances, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle – review
The Japanese-born ballerina ended her dancing career under a mountain of flowers
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Feuilleton
40 Under 40: The Next Generation of Great Opera Singers
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Reviews vom 13.6.2014
Salzburg
La Cenerentola/Rossini Sacred Works, Salzburg Whitsun Festival – review
Rossini’s choral masterpieces yielded the greatest rewards
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Berlin
A gorgeously sung and strangely staged
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Berlin Staatsoper
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Leipzig
From knight-errant to merry prankster: Richard Strauss celebrated in Leipzig
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-leipzig-gewandhaus-chailly-strauss-june-2014
London
Music education: a middle-class preserve?
It is pupils from the poorest backgrounds that will suffer from proposed Government cuts to music education resources. This can’t be right, says Ivan Hewett
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Dorothea Röschmann/Malcolm Martineau review
consummate artistry, joy and pain Röschmann outlined, with enormous subtlety, Liszt’s emotional complexities and brought ravishing colour to Strauss
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New York
Met Manager Keeps Calm, Unions Threaten War: Hoelterhoff
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West Hartford, Conn.
A Digital Orchestra for Opera?
Purists Take (and Play) Offense Anger Over Plan for Electronic Music in Staging Wagner’s “Ring’ Cyc
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Seattle
Work Sheds Mythic Aura as It Dons New Clothes
Pacific Northwest Ballet Offers a Multilayered “Giselle’
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Rio de Janairo
Placido Domingo to sing before the World Cup final
The great tenor and conductor will make his sixth appearance at the sporting final – that’s even more than Pelé
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Reviews vom 12.6.2014
Todesfall
Frühbeck de Burgos gestorben
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Nürnberg
Gisela von Wysocki eröffnet Internationale Gluck-Opern-Festspiele
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Todesmeldung
Italian bass Ivo Vinco dies at 86
http://www.gramilano.com/2014/06/italian-bass-ivo-vinco-dies-86
London
Evgeny Kissin, Barbican, London – review
There’s no questioning the pianist’s virtuosity – but subtlety was in short supply here
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Evgeny Kissin review – a monochrome sound and no bigger picture
Teenage Kissin’s brittle brilliance has not grown profound now that he’s in his 40s: there’s no real musical insight to his technically immaculate playing
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Glyndebourne
Nachträge zum “Don Giovanni”
Don Giovanni, Glyndebourne, East Sussex – review
Young conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada rescues a messy staging of Mozart’s complex opera
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Glyndebourne 2014: Don Giovanni, review: ‘gripping’
Jonathan Kent’s Dion Giovanni, revived by Lloyd Wood at Glyndebourne, combines multi-faceted music-making with excellent performances
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Reviews vom 11.6.2014
Wien
Amarcord Wien and Elisabeth Kulman’s tongue-in-cheek tribute to Wagner and Verdi
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-amarcord-wien-elisabeth-kulman-june-2014
Istanbul
Istanbul Opera Festival opens with Verdi’s “Attila’
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London
Labour will cut museums’ funding unless they attract more poor children
Institutions including opera houses and art galleries that receive state funding will have to produce annual progress reports showing what they have done to bring more children through their doors
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A Tale of Two Hearts: Dickensian Rossini at Holland Park
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Haitink’s 85th birthday celebration with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-haitink-coe-barbican-june-2014
Wormsley, Garsington Opera
Fidelio, Garsington Opera review: ‘Viscerally powerful’
The directorially tricky denouement generates real excitement
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Fidelio (Garsington Opera at Wormsley Estate)
Garsington’s 25th anniversary season opens with a revival of John Cox’s powerful staging of Beethoven’s only
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Fidelio @ Garsington Opera, Wormsley
http://www.musicomh.com/classical/reviews-classical/fidelio-garsington-opera-wormsley
Vert-Vert, Garsington – opera review
Love, dancing and a parrot feature in Offenbach’s operetta – here less historical satire, more St Trinians
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/vertvert-garsington–opera-review-9511985.html
Vert-Vert, Garsington Opera, review: ‘Exuberant virtuosity takes the breath away’
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Los Angeles/ Interview
Placido Domingo Moves Goalposts on Long Opera Career
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Las Vegas
Opera Las Vegas charms with “The Barber of Seville’
http://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/opera-las-vegas-charms-barber-seville
Reviews vom 10.6.2014
Wiener Festwochen
Michael Hanekes Così fan tutte bei den Wiener Festwochen: So können es nur wenige
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La Cenerentola – von der wahren Liebe im Schnellimbiss
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Heidelberg
Ägypten und seine Pharaonen…
Am Theater Heidelberg inszeniert Nanine Linning „Echnaton” von Philip Glass
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Dresden
Entjungferung und gemeinsamer Orgasmus als Zwischenspiel
– Richard Strauss” provokative „Feuersnot” in Dresden
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Göttingen
Faramondo, Deutsches Theater, Göttingen, Germany – review
The singing shines in this insightful production of Handel’s opera
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Birmingham
Tanz
Darkness and Light, Birmingham Hippodrome – review
This triple bill reminded us of the genius Frederick Ashton possessed from his earliest days
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Salisbury
Salisbury International Arts Festival: round up
A collection of Matthew Stadlen’s blogs from the Salisbury International Arts Festival, a two-week celebration of art, music, literature and theatre
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Glyndebourne
Don Giovanni review
– revival does its best, despite clunky staging Glyndebourne, Lewes Energised conducting from Andrés Orozco-Estrada and a line-up of strong principal singers rescue this production from its ponderous, dramatically cramping set
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Don Giovanni, Glyndebourne Festival
Opera Handsome new cast brings ‘Godfather’ Mozart to vibrant life, where premiere failed
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/don-giovanni-glyndebourne-festival-opera-1
Jonathan Kent’s Don Giovanni returns to Glyndebourne
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-glyndebourne-giovanni-madore-june-2014
Garsington
Garsington Opera’s Fidelio proves entertaining but emotionally flat
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-fidelio-garsington-june-2014
New York
Can the Met stay on song?
The Metropolitan Opera in New York is facing labour disputes and diminishing ticket sales, and the house is starting to look shabby, says Rupert Christiansen
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Tanz
A Work Moves, Even if Some of the Figures
Do Not “Diary of an Image’ Tries to Define DD Dorvillier
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Feuilleton
Does it matter that arts audiences are white, metropolitan and middle class?
Harriet Harman warns of a generation of people with ‘no meaningful exposure’ to opera and classical music. Stephen Moss and Bonnie Greer go head to head on whether outreach programmes would make them fans
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Reviews vom 9.6.2014
Prag
Dvořák, Brahms and bouquets to close the Prague Spring Festival
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Aldeburgh /Vorschau Owen Wingrave:
A private peace
Benjamin Britten’s ‘pacifist’ opera was written while war was at the forefront of people’s minds. In this year of centenaries, director Neil Bartlett explains why the time is right for a revival
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Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne: a brief history
Now in its 80th year, the Glyndebourne festival has grown from visionary dream to world-beating business, says Rupert Christiansen
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New York
Tanz Many Answers, Still More Questions
A Premiere for Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence at the Joyce
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Dazzling a Prince, Slowly, Gently, on Point “Cinderella’ to Join American Ballet Theater Repertory
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Philharmonic Biennial program serves up a wide range of composers
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Philadelphia
Even with von Stade, Gordon’s inert “Coffin” is a deadly night in Philadelphia
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Feuilleton
‘Lang Lang? We’ve never met’
His piano recitals attract billions; he won’t do ‘crossover’; and he’s making Chopin hip. But what does the Chinese classical superstar Yundi think of his famous rival?
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Drifting Back to the Real World A Look at Richard Strauss’s Legacy After 150 Years
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Are jazz musicians more creative than classical?
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Reviews vom 8.6.2014
London
Weitere Review zu „Benvenuto Cellini”
Berlioz : Benvenuto Cellini / ENO, 5th June 2014
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The Dream/Connectome/The Concert, Royal Ballet
A summer reverie you won’t want to wake from
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COE/Haitink review
– richly embodied conductor’s enduring mastery Barbican, London Bernard Haitink brought the audience to their feet with a hugely moving delivery of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony
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Khatia Buniatishvili, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London – review
Her performance is the pianistic equivalent of a society wedding photograph, with edges blurred and defining human characteristics removed
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New York
Droht der Met in den nächsten 3 Jahren der Konkurs?
New York’s Met opera house on edge of precipice, says Peter Gelb
Threat of bankruptcy at world’s biggest and richest opera house contrasts strongly with ‘cracking season’ in UK
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From a Wistful Queen, Longing and Regret
Mariella Devia Returns to New York in “Roberto Devereux’
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Reviews vom 7.6.2014
Rücktritt
Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Citing Illness, Withdraws from Conducting
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Mannheim
Böse Geister, National Theater, Mannheim, Germany – review
Adriana Hölszky’s new opera barely scratches the surface of its source text, Dostoevsky’s Demons
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Athen
Free Summer Events by the Greek National Opera
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London
Benvenuto Cellini, English National Opera, review: ‘lively and idiomatic’
Against the odds, Terry Gilliam and ENO tame the beast of Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz’s car-crash of an opera
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Benvenuto Cellini, London Coliseum, opera review: ‘Curiously drained of energy’
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Benvenuto Cellini, Coliseum, London – review
Terry Gilliam bravely transforms Berlioz’s chaotic opera for ENO with Python-esque flashes
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/967271e6-ed62-11e3-abf3-00144feabdc0.html
Benvenuto Cellini, English National Opera
Gilliam outdoes his first opera with the sheer gleeful excess of his second
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Benvenuto Cellini review grotesques and gusto solve Berlioz’s problem piece Coliseum, London
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Terry Gilliam strikes gold for ENO with a riotous Benvenuto Cellini http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-cellini-spyres-eno-june-2014
Lawrence Zazzo review – a voice with extraordinary versatility Wigmore Hall, London
Zazzo’s commitment and charismatic vocal presence draw the listener back in to confront and experience the songs ane
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Glyndebourne
Donizetti: Don Pasquale, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, review: ‘sparkling’
This is a warmly relaxed yet sharp recorded performance of an irresistibly entertaining Glyndebourne favourite, says Rupert Christiansen
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New York
Mary Anthony, Choreographer and Teacher of Modern Dance, Dies at 97
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Reviews vom 6.6.2014
Amsterdam
Martijn Padding’s new opera Laika launched at the Holland Festival
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-laika-padding-oliemans-june-2014
London
Weitere Reviews zur “Fanciulla”
La Fanciulla del West review: Puccini’s gold rush enters the atomic age
Opera Holland Park, London
Its relocation to an atomic-testing ground in Nevada may not convince, but this production hots up with impressive results
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La Fanciulla del West, review: ‘glibly amusing’
Stephen Barlow’s production takes Puccini’s opera to Las Vegas and turns it into a slice of quaint camp, says Rupert Christiansen
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La fanciulla del West, Holland Park, London – review
Susannah Glanville puts her gleaming soprano to good use in this 1950s update of Puccini’s opera
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Khatia Buniatishvili, Queen Elizabeth Hall, review: ‘sorely disappointing’
Virtuoso Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili’s musical judgment went out of the window at Queen Elizabeth Hall, says Ivan Hewett
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Khatia Buniatishvili: All that glitters?
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-buniatishvili-qeh-june-2014
Edinburgh
Edinburgh festival fringe 2014 set to be the biggest in its history
Number of shows is up 11% on last year, with acts preparing to swamp the city’s every spare stage, pub and alleyway
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New York
Tanz
Magical Forest, Comic Mishaps
Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
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Young Composers Catch the Philharmonic’s Ear
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Dallas
Dallas Opera gets $2.5 million corporate gift
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Los Angeles
Vorschau
LA Opera to Open 2014-15 season with LA TRAVIATA, Opening 9/13
“General Director Plácido Domingo will return to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage to open LA Opera’s 2014/15 season, singing the role of Giorgio Germont in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, which also will star soprano Nino Machaidze in her role debut as Violetta.”
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Reviews vom 5.6.2014
Dresden
Thielemann brings Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra to life
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-boccanegra-lucic-thielemann-may-2014
Paris
La Traviata, Paris Opera (Bastille) – Review
Benoît Jacquot delivers a staging with video in mind but fails to tame the Bastille’s vast stage
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Lyon
Zinnias: the Life of Clementine Hunter review – heartfelt but gauche homage, Grand theatre, Lyon
The European premiere of Robert Wilson’s rootsy 90-minute opera at Lyon’s Les Nuits de Fourvière festival was full of colour, but its text let it down
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London
La fanciulla del West (Holland Park)
Puccini’s all too rarely seen Wild West opera fires the opening shots in OHP’s new season
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La Fanciulla del West, Holland Park – opera Review
Stephen Barlow has set Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West a hundred years later in Las Vegas, the gold-diggers transformed into GIs at the time of atomic testing in the Nevada desert
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A heart of gold in the West: Opera Holland Park hits Vegas for Puccini’s La fanciulla
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-fanciulla-holland-park-glanville-june-2014
Vorschau
Terry Gilliam’s opera diary: ‘We have a big head problem’
Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini is incoherent, bombastic and nigh on unperformable. The perfect project, then, for Terry Gilliam to direct. We asked him to keep a diary as he brought the work to the English National Opera stage. Strap in for a bumpy ride
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Draft Works, Linbury Studio, London – Review
This showcase for rising Royal Ballet talent featured some promising apprentice pieces
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Gerald Finley, Wigmore Hall, London – Review
The baritone’s Wigmore residency ended with a new song cycle by Einojuhani Rautavaara
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New York
Musical Mischief With Dvorak
Budapest Festival Orchestra Has Fun at Avery Fisher Hall
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An Affirmation of Faith at Carnegie Hall Diverse Disciples Flock to an Arvo Pärt Tribute
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Charlston, Spoleto Festoval
A cornered Kátja Kabanová in Charleston
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-kata-kabanova-charleston-may-2014
Reviews vom 4.6.2014
London
Connectome, Royal Opera House, London – Review
By Clement Crisp Alastair Marriott’s choreographic portrait of grief is all but overwhelmed by its own stage design
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Two Royal Ballet Dancers to Skip Russian Tour in Protest
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Grange Park
Weitere “Peter Grimes”-Review
Peter Grimes, Grange Park, Hampshire – Review
With its realistic setting, Jeremy Sams’s production is like a Dickens novel set to music
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Visceral Verdi via 1950s Hollywood at Grange Park Opera
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-traviata-grange-park-may-2014
New York
The Juilliard School’s 109th Commencement Speech ~ Joyce DiDonato
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Velocity, Vulnerability and Youth
School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage
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San Franciso
Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Show Boat’ sizzles
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S.F. Opera review: ‘Show Boat’ a riveting slice of the South
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Adelaide
Vorschau
Australia’s first Indigenous opera set for Adelaide debut
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Feuilleton
Symphony guide: Bruckner’s 6th
Bruckner’s “saucy” sixth is the symphony that disproves those lazy received opinions about his music
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Why it’s time to end our
Cold War view of Soviet music Composers who were loyal to the Soviet regime should be listened to sympathetically, says Ivan Hewett
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Reviews vom 3.6.2014
Neapel
In the world of Pagliacci, everybody is a clown
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-pagliacci-san-carlo-santi-may-2014
London
Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, dance review: Connectome, The Dream and The Concert
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Unveiling a Shimmering
New Work for Royal Ballet Alastair Marriott’s “Connectome’ opens in London
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Weitere Review zu den “Carmelites”
Dialogues des Carmélites, Royal Opera House, London – review
Simon Rattle conducts a radiant account of Poulenc’s opera
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Manchester
Opera Seria continues to amaze with Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-maria-stuarda-opera-seria-may-2014
New York
A Composer’s Sensual Side
Pierre Boulez’s Legacy Is Explored at NY Phil Biennial
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Charleston, Spoleto Festival
A deeply human Messiah comes to Spoleto Festival USA
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-el-nino-spoleto-may-2014
Chicago
COT stages two political satires crafted under Nazis Opera review:
“The Emperor of Atlantis”/”The Clever One”
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Chicago
Opera Theater double bill jarring but effective
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Soprano lifts COT’s uneven double bill of wartime works
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Feuilleton
The Passenger’s journey from Auschwitz to the opera
This week’s Composer of the Week on Radio 3 is Mieczysław Weinberg. Here, in a piece originally published in September 2011 ahead of a production of his opera The Passenger, director David Pountney introduces the neglected composer
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/08/weinberg-the-passenger-revival
Reviews vom 2.6.2014
Moskau
Saisonvorschau
Conductor Tugan Sokhiev to Debut in New Bolshoi Season
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London
Weitere Review zu den “Carmelites”
Dialogues des Carmélites @ Royal Opera House, London
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Cardiff
Nabucco, Welsh National Opera/Wales Millennium Centre, review: ‘over-intellectualised’
Rupert Christiansen is impressed with the vocal cast in Rudolf Frey’s version of Verdi’s Nabucco, but the staging doesn’t match up
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Nabucco review – kitsch staging mars a strong performance Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
WNO capture the passions of Verdi’s score, but there’s too much glitz in Rudolf Frey’s production
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New York
A Pair of Dreams to Compare and Savor
At Lincoln Center, Ballets by Balanchine and Ashton
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/dance/index.html
St. Louis
Opera review: ‘Elixir of Love’ delivers a happy potion at Opera Theatre
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Dallas
The Turning of the Tide
In his latest Off the Cuff, The Dallas Opera’s Keith Cerny ponders lessons from the recent San Diego Opera ordeal, and it’s good news for opera lovers everywhere.
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Reviews vom 1.6.2014
London
La Chambre Philharmonique, Cadogan Hall, London – review
An impressive all-Berlioz programme from the period-instrument ensemble
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Arlesford, Grange Park OperaPeter Grimes,
Grange Park Britten’s centenary year may be over but this new production is a fine celebration http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/peter-grimes-grange-park
Grimes ahoy! Suffolk’s coast transplanted to the rolling Hampshire Downs http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-grimes-grange-park-tanner-may-2014
New York
Gilbert, AXIOM Ensemble ham it up with Gruber’s “Gloria”
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Debating the merits of Smirnova and Muntagirov in American Ballet Theatre’s La Bayadère http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-abt-la-bayadere-nyc-may-2014
Chicago
Cellist Weilerstein makes a case for Prokofiev rarity with CSO
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San Diego
Opera Veteran Appointed New Artistic Adviser At San Diego Opera
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Feuilleton
What Rolando Villazon, Javier Camarena and Major Latin America Opera Stars Are Doing This Summer
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