Reviews vom 31.10.2014
London
La Bohème review – buoyant, with a Rodolfo to treasure Coliseum, London
Jonathan Miller’s 2009 production is less revolutionary now, but this cast, especially David Butt Philip, is ebullient and full of warmth and skill http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/30/la-boheme-review
La bohème (London Coliseum) Puccini’s ever-popular opera of doomed young love returns to ENO
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Jonathan Miller’s La bohème returns to ENO
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-boheme-eno-angel-blue-october-2014
Recasting Operas in Their Youthful Images
Opera Companies Reach Out to Young People in New Ways
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Arcadi Volodos, Royal Festival Hall – review: A keyboard poet beyond compare
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Maria João Pires / Dumay / Meneses review –
spooky elegance Wigmore Hall, London Halloween-appropriate programming of the Ghost sonata was the centrepiece of a beguiling set of Beethoven piano trio chamber music
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New York
In a Busy Train Station, a Postmodern Opera Takes Shape
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Chicago
Weitere Reviews zum “Trovatore”:
Il Trovatore brings Amber Wagner back to town
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Verdi’s IL TROVATORE Opens 10/27 at Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Denver
Opera Colorado seeks to grow younger audience as it enters 30th season
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Reviews vom 30.10.2014
Wien
Why a beautiful voice is not enough for a beautiful evening: Ludovic Tézier at the Staatsoper
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-tezier-vuong-vienna-october-2014
London
Choreographer Ludovic Ondiviela on making mental illness the subject of his new work
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New York
Met’s Divisive Opera Is Selling Tickets
“The Death of Klinghoffer’ Helps Box Office
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On “The Death of Klinghoffer,’ Justice Ginsburg Finds for the Defense
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Chicago
Lyric Opera delivers the vocal thunder in a dark and combustible “Trovatore
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Kansas City
Baseball
Opera Star Joyce DiDonato Will Sing National Anthem at Game 7
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Toronto
Brueggergosman edges into non-classical territory with Christmas album
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Perth
WA Opera boss primed to go
WA Opera artistic director Joseph Colaneri is parting ways with the company next month after 2½ years in the job as a controversy over depictions of smoking on stage threatens to reignite.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/25380835/wa-opera-boss-primed-to-go/
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory (complete opera) (2014)
A fine rendition of this terrific piece, which suffers only in comparison to the Metropolitan Opera.
http://audaud.com/2014/10/rossini-le-comte-ory-complete-opera-2014/
Reviews vom 29.10.2014
London
Masters of the Queens Music at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-weir-queens-music-sam-wanamaker-october-2014
Brecon, Wales
Brecon Baroque festival review – grave but graceful Bach
Various venues, Brecon
Rachel Podger’s ensemble were well attuned to the cumulative powers of JS Bach, while Mahan Esfahani brought humanity on and off the stage
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Wexford
Wexford Festival Opera, Silent Night, National Opera House
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New York
A Wily Temptress Undone by Love, or Perhaps by a Transitory Spell
Joyce DiDonato Sings “Alcina’ at Carnegie Hall
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Dallas
Illuminating Mozart
Dallas Opera opens its 2014-2015 season with a strong, beautifully sung The Marriage of Figaro.
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San Francisco
Weitere „Tosca”-Review
Petite soprano stands tall in S.F. Opera’s ‘Tosca’
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Los Angeles
Weitere Reviews zu „Dido” 6 „Blaubart”:
Review: L.A. Opera pushes the envelope in “Dido’ and “Bluebeard’
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Rare Dido and Bluebearddouble bill an odd dichotomy
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-dido-aeneas-bluebeard-kosky-los-angeles-october-2014
Toronto
Canadian Opera Company attendance numbers rise
Audiences averaged 94 per cent capacity at the Canadian Opera Company in 2013/14, it announced Monday
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VERDI: Don Carlo (complete opera) (2014)
Kaufmann and company do the 2013 Salzburg Festival proud.
http://audaud.com/2014/10/verdi-don-carlo-complete-opera-2014/
Reviews vom 28.10.2014
Moskau
Pokrovsky Theater Stages Beethoven’s Only Opera
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London
LSO/Harding review – bringing affirmative wordliness to Mahler’s Ninth Barbican, London
Harding’s death-defying approach held Mahler’s morbidity
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/27/lso-daniel-harding-review-mahler
Wexford
Don Bucefalo, Wexford Festival Opera, review: ‘juicy’
Cagnoni’s opera is plausibly updated to small-town America in the Nineties, but attention-seeking comedy lets it down, says John Allison
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Dublin
Flórez’s love songs captures Dublin hearts
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-juan-diego-florez-dublin-october-2014
New York
ABT triple bill: Raymonda Divertissements, Seven Sonatas and Fancy Free
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Dallas
Dallas Opera’s Season Opener, The Marriage of Figaro, Is Beautiful Even Without Supertitles
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Seattle
The Rake’s revels: Don Giovanni parties it up in Seattle
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-don-giovanni-cavallier-seattle-october-2014
Los Angeles
Review
L.A. Opera goes cutting edge in double bill of Purcell, Bartók
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-la-opera-review-20141027-column.html
Feuilleton
Anna Magdalena Bach: a forgotten genius?
Did Bach’s wife compose some of his best-known pieces? Ivan Hewettconsiders the evidence
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Reviews vom 27.10.2014
London
Ottone, English Touring Opera, review: ‘a rare delight for Handel lovers’
This often overlooked Handel opera receives the performance it deserves says Rupert Christiansen
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La scala di seta; La Cenerentola; Moses in Egypt – review
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow; New theatre, Oxford From early to epic, Rossini’s irrepressible operas are currently everywhere
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La scala di seta @ Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London
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New York
Retooled or Merely Dusted Off, 3 Classics Shine Anew Ballet Theater Presents a New Version of “Raymonda’
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Philharmonic scores with Gilbert’s Bruckner, Bronfman’s Bartók
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Boston
Tovey, Terfel and BSO deliver a deeply moving Brahms Requiem
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Chicago
With tedious Scarlatti pastoral, Haymarket Opera’s Baroque repertory needs fixing
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Los Angeles
Vorschau
L.A. Opera goes minimal with ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-dido-bluebeard-opera-20141025-story.html
Feuilleton
Violin teacher Suzuki is the biggest fraud in music history, says expert
Japanese music teacher behind the Suzuki method has been unmasked as a liar and a fraud
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Reviews vom 26.10.2014
London
La scala di seta (Royal Opera House)
Rossini’s ‘Silken Ladder’ showcases the Jette Parker Young Artists in the Linbury Studio
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Jette Parker Young Artists step up to deliver a vivacious Rossini Silken Ladder
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-scala-seta-jette-parker-october-2014
La scala di seta: negotiating ladders, linguistics and lighting cues
Greg Eldridge and his fellow Jette Parker Young Artists are putting on Rossini’s farce La scala di seta at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio. With only four weeks to create a new production, he kept a rehearsal diary of the frantic pace
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Conducting dance, choreographing music: Thomas Adès at Sadler’s Wells
The British composer is known for epic, intricate scores. How did Crystal Pite and Alexander Whitley respond to them in their short new stage works?
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Wexford Review: Wexford Opera Festival, Salome, National Opera House
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New York
A Milestone for Opera’s Sultan of Swat James Levine Leads His 2,500th Met Performance Saturday
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San Francisco
San Francisco Opera review: Soprano’s magnificent ‘Tosca’ debut
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/San-Francisco-Opera-review-Soprano-s-5845731.php
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo A Stunning Debut in ‘Partenope’ at San Francisco Opera
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Toronto
An 18th-century opera seen through 21st-century eyes
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What Czarinas Kept in Their iPods Cecilia Bartoli’s Album Explores Early Opera in Russia
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Reviews vom25.10.2014
Glasgow
Wozzeck review – from poignancy to utter devastation City Halls, Glasgow
Conductor Donald Runnicles’ take on Berg’s complex opera was compelling, beautiful and powerfully claustrophobic
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La Cenerentola, Scottish Opera, review: ‘falls flat’
This is a lacklustre production of Rossini’s masterful Cinderella opera, says John Allison
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New York
Boldly, Bluntly, a Pianist Puts His Stamp on Mozart
Lang Lang Shares the Spotlight With the Philharmonic
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Chicago
Lyric caters to dedicated opera fans with Strauss’s Capriccio
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Dallas
Figaro-tively Speaking
An interview with the Dallas Theater Center’s Kevin Moriarty on directing his second opera, The Marriage of Figaro, for the Dallas Opera.
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San Fancisco
San Francisco Opera maximizes the melodrama in Puccini’s opera about a singer
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Puccini: La Rondine (complete opera, in English), Blu-ray (2013)
http://audaud.com/2014/10/puccini-la-rondine-complete-opera-in-english-blu-ray-2013/
Der Bayerische Rundfunk feiert ein Jahr der Jubiläen
Bastler und Botschaften aus dem Bahnhofsviertel
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Reviews vom 24.10.2014
Oslo
Sequined gowns and neon crucifixes: A thought-provoking Don Giovanni in Oslo
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Madrid
Lost in translation: A Spanish Carmen in Madrid
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London
Simon Keenlyside/Emanuel Ax review –a poignant and powerful Winterreise Wigmore Hall, London
The baritone drew on his actorly skills for Schubert’s song cycle, sensitively supported by Ax’s beautifully judged accompaniment read more
Wexford
Wexford Opera House gets national status Curtain comes up on Wexford Festival Opera
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New York
A Master of the Dramatic Turns Lyrical Luca Pisaroni in Concert at Carnegie Hall
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Chamber Music Society delivers masterful Brahms survey
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Chicago
Lyric Opera artists take flight “Beyond the Aria” at Pritzker
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Portland
Bravo for 50 years Portland Opera marks 50-year milestone with ‘Die Fledermaus,’ its 1964 debut http://portlandtribune.com/pt/11-features/237779-103225-bravo-for-50-years
San Francisco
Christopher Alden’s staging enlivens San Francisco Opera’s new Handel production
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Reviews vom 23.10.2014
Mailand
Conductor Chailly: Appeasing La Scala’s ‘gods’ with Italian opera
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/uk-music-chailly-idUKKCN0IB0H820141022
Tao Dance Theatre’s Unyielding Power
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-tao-dance-theatre-sadler%27s-wells-october-2014
LSO/Pappano review – digging deep into powerful emotions Barbican, London
Pappano brings nobility to a celebration of Panufnik and brilliantly evokes Strauss’s pride, anger and bea
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Glyndebourne
The Turn of the Screw (Glyndebourne Tour)
Jonathan Kent’s peerless production of Britten’s ghost opera, impeccably revived
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New York
Weitere Reviews zu “Klinghoffer”
Met Opera’s ‘Death of Klinghoffer’ is a compassionate feat
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Despite the protests and an uneven staging, Met’s powerful “Klinghoffer” makes a devastating impact
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The Death of Klinghoffer
http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.co.at/2014/10/the-death-of-klinghoffer.html
To See Is to Know
This production makes it clear: John Adams’s opera is neither anti-Semitic nor anti-Israel. It does not condone terrorism.
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Metropolitan Opera stifles free exchange of ideas about a propaganda opera
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Chicago
Kraemer opens MOB season with well-tempered Mozart
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Berlin
Theaterberufe: Wenn ein Tänzer alle Hände voll zu tun bekommt
25 Jahre war Oliver Wulff beim Staatsballett Berlin auf der Bühne zu erleben. Heute arbeitet er in der Compagnie als Ballett-Inspektor und ist die Schnittstelle zwischen den verschiedenen Abteilungen.
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Reviews vom 22.10.2014
Rom
Italian Opera’s Biggest Drama Unfolds Behind the Scenes
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London
LSO/Pappano, Barbican, review: ‘a performance of warm intensity’
London Symphony Orchestra gave a concert full of richly characterised detail, says John Allison
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New York
Distress at Sea, and Offstage
John Adams’s “Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera
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Protestors disrupt The Death of Klinghoffer opera at New York’s Lincoln Center
Audience members interrupt performers with cries of “shame’, as protesters earlier called for Metropolitan Opera to cancel performance of work they claim is antisemitic
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For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests
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Chicago
Reframing Swan Lake: Joffrey Ballet Revives Wheeldon Masterpiece
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-swan-lake-joffrey-ballet-october-2014
Seattle
At Seattle Opera: A dashing “Don Giovanni’
A review of both casts in Seattle Opera’s impressive production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” on stage through Nov. 1, 2014.
http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2024826892_dongiovannireviewxml.html
Feuilleton
10 of the best: Classical music comedies and parodies
We present an occasional and light-hearted series: a selection of 10 clips, this week our pick of classical music’s best parodies, comedies and sketches. What are your own favourites? Tell us in the comments section below
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Reviews vom 21.10.2014
Paris
The Barber of Seville at L’Opera Bastille
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From silver screen to golden hall: Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Palais Garnier
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-entfuhrung-serail-breitman-opera-de-paris-october-2014
Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Paris Opera (Garnier) – Review
A disappointing directing debut from Zabou Breitman – though there are musical compensations
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c516f16-55e0-11e4-93b3-00144feab7de.html#axzz3Gh00tuD4
London
Life on the Moon and Ottone, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire – Review
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Ottone/English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire – opera Review
The story is the usual farrago of incomprehensible plotting and mistaken identity, but Handel’s Ottone is packed with first-rate arias and duets
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Haydn: Il monda della luna, English Touring Opera 17th October 2014
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The Royal Ballet; Frederick Ashton mixed Programme
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New York
John Adams, “Death of Klinghoffer’ Composer, Prepares for Controversial Metropolitan Opera Production
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A Loving, Lingering Farewell Embrace
Wendy Whelan Leaves City Ballet After 30 Years
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Nashville
A look at the Nashville Opera’s 2014-15 season
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Toronto
Opera Atelier’s Alcina a gathering of friends
Alcina may be a cruel sorceress but she had two of the other characters in the opera over for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Reviews vom 20.10.2014
London
Ottone review – magnificently but only intermittently alive Hackney Empire, London
English Touring Opera’s production of the 1723 Handel opera works its hardest to overcome the original’s unevenness
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Nachträge zur “Welt auf dem Mond”
Life on the Moon (English Touring Opera)
ETO launches its autumn tour – at Hackney Empire – with a rarely-performed Haydn opera
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Broad slapstick eclipses Haydn’s Life on the Moon
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-life-moon-english-touring-opera-october-2014
I due Foscari; The Trial – review
Plácido Domingo is a mesmerising stage presence in sorrowful Verdi, while the world premiere of Philip Glass’s The Trial unsettles
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Frederick Ashton mixed programme, Royal Ballet, review
Elements of this mixed programme of Frederick Ashton’s work are about as good as art gets, says Laura Thompson
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‘Visions of the New’: BBC Concert Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, review
Work by modern American composers offered thrills and grandeur, but occasionally got a little lost
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Leeds
The Bartered Bride review
– luxurious cast enlivens communist setting Grand, Leeds Daniel Slater’s eastern-bloc revival of Smetana’s hymn to the Czech soul benefits from one of Opera North’s strongest casts to date
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/19/the-bartered-bride-review-opera-north
St. Petersburg, Florida
Review: St. Pete Opera’s ‘Pagliacci’ perfect balance of buffoonery, drama
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Maria Callas: Priesterin der Postmoderne
Wie klingt Maria Callas ohne Rauschen? Und warum ist ihr Mythos bis heute so unverwüstlich? Eine Box mit allen Studioaufnahmen wirft ein interessantes Licht auf das heutige Opernleben. vo
http://www.zeit.de/2014/41/maria-callas-oper-sopranistin
Reviews vom 19.10.2014
London
Life on the Moon, ETO, Hackney Empire, review:
‘alcohol-free entertainment’ Did Haydn have any real love for the human voice? On the evidence of this staging of the composer’s Il Mondo della Luna, Rupert Christiansen is not convinced
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Life on the Moon, ETO
English Touring Opera Costumes, conductor and star tenor keep this mundane Haydn opera afloat http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/life-moon-english-touring-opera
The Marriage of Figaro (London Coliseum)
Fiona Shaw’s hilarious yet deeply considered account of Mozart’s masterpiece returns to English National Opera
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Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang, Barbican, review:
‘A stage set for an odd encounter’ These two musicians are alike only in their steely-fingered technique, says Ivan Hewett, yet this joint Brahms recital was ultimately rewarding
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Manchester Hallé/Elder review –
Paul Lewis weighs his phrases carefully Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Mark Elder conducts pianist Paul Lewis and the Hallé Orchestra in a consummate performance of Brahms, and a Dvořák walk in the park
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Glasgow
Opera review: Scottish Opera: La Cenerentola, Glasgow
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New York
Met’s “Klinghoffer” deserves an open mind, not political censorship
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Rudy Giuliani Will Lead Protest Against “The Death of Klinghoffer’
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Tanz
A Goddess Is Back, as Huntress
Alessandra Ferri Performs a Work by Lar Lubovitch
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Salonen, Philharmonic strike sparks in a spectacular “Firebird”
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Reviews vom 18.10.2014
München
The Bayerische Staatsoper’s La clemenza di Tito is a story well told (crazy costumes and all)
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London
The Marriage of Figaro (London Coliseum)
Fiona Shaw’s hilarious yet deeply considered account of Mozart’s masterpiece returns to English National Opera
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Mary Bevan in ENO’s Marriage of Figaro
The British soprano’s curtain call turns into an award ceremony
http://www.classical-music.com/blog/mary-bevan-enos-marriage-figaro
The Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera
Fiona Shaw’s Figaro makes a joyous return to the Coliseum
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/marriage-figaro-english-national-opera-0
Weitere Review zu den „Foscari”
I Due Foscari, starring Plácido Domingo, Royal Opera House – opera review
Sadly, Plácido Domingo makes a somewhat muted impression in the role of the Doge. At the age of 73 it’s remarkable that he can sustain a line as well as he does but there’s no pretending that his delivery is as commanding as it once was
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The dancer everyone wants to see: Natalia Osipova
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Charmless fairy tales: Pappano and the LSO
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Glasgow
La Cenerentola review – decent but unmemorable
Cinderella retelling Theatre Royal, Glasgow Sandrine Anglada’s Rossini revival is neither very funny nor profound, but Victoria Yarovaya’s Cenerentola is terrific
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New York
Weitere “Klighoffer”-Diskussionen
An Opera Under Fire
“The Death of Klinghoffer’ at the Metropolitan Opera
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Met Opera Director Peter Gelb Responds To Controversy Surrounding ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’
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San Francisco
S.F. Opera review: ‘Partenope’ a fizzy, free-associative delight
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/SF-Opera-review-Partenope-a-fizzy-5827281.php
Review: Handel’s ‘Partenope’ hilariously updated to 1920s
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A Siren to Fire Partenope at S.F Opera
https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/san-francisco-symphony/a-siren-to-fire-partenope-at-sf-opera
Amarillo
Music and Murder
The Amarillo Opera opens its season with the oft double-billed Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci.
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Reviews vom 17.10.2014
Berlin
Deutsche Oper’s Ariadne auf Naxos amuses at the Philharmonie
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-ariadne-schirmer-deutsche-oper-october-2014
München
Cassandra Wyss gibt im Münchner Herkulessaal ihr Deutschland-Debüt als Sopranistin
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Amsterdam
Dutch National Ballet moved by Bach
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-back-to-bach-dutch-national-ballet-october-2014
Turin
Otello in Turin: the weakness of a Moorish general
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-otello-noseda-kunde-turin-october-2014
London
Nachträge “I due foscari”
I due Foscari, Royal Opera, review:
‘coarse blood and thunder’ Placido Dominigo acts his age for once, but cannot save Verdi’s I due Foscari at Covent Garden, says Rupert Christiansen
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I due Foscari, Royal Opera House, review: A duff production
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Vorschau
Why the injustice against Joseph Haydn?
The Austrian composer’s operas have long been accused of lousy drama and lacking tunes – how unfair, says John Allison
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New York
A Double Dose of Outrageousness
Gotham Chamber Opera Opens Season
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The Obscure and Zany, Rediscovered
Two surrealist comedies by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinú from a group specializing in obscure works.
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Cartoonish direction, indifferent vocalism make for leaden Martinů double bill at Gotham Chamber Opera
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Martinů’s Magical World
http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=10148
Klinghoffer and the “Two Sides’ of Terrorism
Would the Metropolitan Opera offer a work called “The Death of Martin Luther King Jr.’ with racist views in support of the assassination?
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Toronto
Opera Review: The Canadian Opera Company’s Madama Butterfly is a notch below essential
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Reviews vom 16.10.2014
Prag
Fibich’s Pád Arkuna: Unearthing a forgotten Czech gem
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-fibich-fall-arkun-prague-october-2014
Neapel
Nemorino’s love labours in a merry Neapolitan L’elisir d’amore at San Carlo
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-elisir-san-carlo-naples-october-2014
London
BBCSO/Oramo/Hadelich Review
Nielsen cycle is off to an exhilarating start Barbican, London Nielsen’s first symphony felt gripping and fresh, alongside crisply rendered Tchaikovsky and Mozart
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New York
A Date With Mozart, Deffered No More
Met Orchestra With Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall
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San Francisco
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera San Francisco Opera War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco,
13 October 2014
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/sfo-unballo-1014.shtml
Pisa
Mozart: Don Giovanni / Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 11 October 2014
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London
I Due Foscari review – Domingo is superb but elsewhere it’s hit and miss Royal Opera House, London An ill-focused staging means that this new production of Verdi’s tragedy doesn’t quite gel
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I due Foscari (Royal Opera House)
Plácido Domingo headlines a rare opportunity to see Verdi’s early opera of political and paternal torment
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Placido Domingo on the opera stage – in pictures
Tonight, Placido Domingo returns to the Royal Opera House to sing in Verdi’s I Due Foscari, his 28th role for the company in a 43-year-career of performing there. Here’s a few highlights of the singer’s many roles over recent years.
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New York Metropolitan Opera Review 2014-15 – Carmen
Anita Rachvelishvili and Brandon Jovanovich Triumph in Bizet’s Masterpiece
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A Gala Goes On , Despite Notable Absences Richard Tucker Benefit Concert Showcases Opera Vocalists
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Met’s “Death of Klinghoffer’ Remains a Lightning Rod
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Yee Haw, Swing Your Partner, or Tenderly Unfold Her City Ballet Presents “Masters at Work’
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Levine shows his mettle with a powerful Mahler 9
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Hongkong
Opera Hong Kong’s modernised Salome leaves questions unanswered
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Feuilleton
Youth Gets Its Day in Opera. Now Where Are the Honors for Veteran Artists?
http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/youth-gets-its-day-opera-honors-veteran-artists/
Reviews vom 15.10.2014
Melbourne
Flying Dutchman’s curse strikes at Victorian Opera
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Auckland
Raymond Hawthorne’s portrait of Donizetti’s tragic 18th-century Scottish heroine has audience swept away.
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Feuilleton
What does modern music mean these days?
Prompted by the Radio 3′s Early Music Show on CPE Bach, Ivan Hewett explores what exactly makes music modern
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The worst press offices in the music world
http://slippedisc.com/2014/10/the-worst-press-offices-in-the-music-world/
Reviews vom 14.10.2014
Berlin
Shattering Tristan und Isolde in Berlin almost unbearably intense
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-tristan-isolde-meier-seiffert-barenboim-october-2014
Amsterdam
Evolution of the Lied: Luca Pisaroni’s impressive recital at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-pisaroni-rieger-amsterdam-october-2014
London
Weitere Reviews zur neuen Glass-Oper nach Kafka:
The Trial, Linbury Studio – opera review
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Philip Glass’ The Trial, Linbury Theatre, review
Kafka’s story has an astonishing prescience
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Birmingham
Shadows of War, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Glimpse into the Past
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New York
Those Dancing Gods of Love
Staging Rameau’s “Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour’
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The Art of Wooing Commitment-Phobes
As Subscriptions Fall, Orchestras Aim Higher
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Boston
Music review: BLO offers a comfortable “La traviata’
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Handel and Haydn launches 200th anniversary season with Baroque splendor
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Chicago
Runnicles, CSO team up for a fresh, majestic Mahler 5
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Salt Lake City
Review: Excellent performances throughout Utah Opera’s tragic “Madame Butterfly’
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Reviews vom 13.10.2014
London
The Trial, Music Theatre Wales, Linbury Studio Theatre, review:
‘cannily pitched’ Rupert Christiansen wishes Philip Glass could build dramatic momentum into The Trial, his opera based on a Kafka novel
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The Trial review –
captures the essence of Kafka’s surreal fable Linbury, London Philip Glass’s score adds up to much more than just a play with musical accompaniment
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The Trial (Royal Opera House) Music Theatre Wales has commissioned Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton for its latest operatic project
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Nachtrag zur “Alcina”
Alcina (Barbican)
Three great mezzos lead an all-star cast in Handel’s late masterpiece
http://www.whatsonstage.com/reviews/alcina-barbican_36073.html
Glyndebourne
La Traviata, Glyndebourne Tours, review: ‘painfully believable’
Tom Cairns’s touring production of Verdi’s La Traviata is smart yet under-characterised, says John Allison
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Oxford
The Schubert Project review – imaginative but never over-prescriptive Sheldonian, Oxford Ranging right across Schubert’s composing career, some of the performances were routine, others rather special
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Glasgow
SCO/Ticciati review – the SCO treads new ground with a marvellous Mahler. City Halls, Glasgow The orchestra’s heritage was etched into every poised phrase, every uncluttered tutti
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/12/sco-ticciati-review-glasgow-mahler
New York
Jory Vinikour’s artistry in Rameau prevails over ill-tempered harpsichord
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Sidney
Sydney Dance Company’s Louder Than Words
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Feuillton
Interview Danielle de Niese: An opera pop star
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Reviews vom 12.10.2014
London
Alcina, Barbican, review: ‘Joyce DiDonato is perfect’
Rupert Christiansen witnesses a singer at the height of her powers
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Handel : Alcina / Barbican, 10th October 2014
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Sunderland
Sunderland story to be told in football opera
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-29573496
New York
The Rock Beat of His Youth, Echoing
Again in August Precincts Rouse’s World Premiere and Batiashvili Plays Brahms
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Batiashvili and Brahms triumph in mixed Philharmonic program
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Tuscon Review: Arizona Opera’s ‘Cruzar la Cara de la Luna’
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San Francisco
SFist Reviews: SF Opera’s ‘A Masked Ball’
http://sfist.com/2014/10/10/sfist_reviews_a_masked_ball_at_sf_o.php
Todesmeldung
Noted Coloratura Soprano Rita Shane Dies
http://slippedisc.com/2014/10/death-of-a-fine-coloratura
Reviews vom 11.10.2014
London
Interview
Music Theatre Wales premieres brand new Philip Glass opera in London
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Hallé Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, review: ‘tiger by the tail’
Viktoria Mullova gave a turbo-charged performance of Shostakovich with the Hallé Orchestra under Mark Elder at the Bridgewater Hall, says David Fanning
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London Sinfonietta, Queen Elizabeth Hall, review:
‘like a musical furnace’ Ivan Hewett sees the London Sinfonietta back at the cutting-edge with this thrilling and visually stunning evening of work by the late Fausto Romitelli
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Great expectations, partly fulfilled; Rafael Payare’s London Symphony debut shows a conductor-in-progres http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-payare-leonskaja-london-symphony-october-2014
Leeds
Review: Opera North in The Coronation of Poppaea; Grand Theatre, Leeds
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Cumnock, Scotland
A Music Festival for a Forlorn Town
Scottish Composer James MacMillan Opens Cumnock Tryst
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New York
Belgrade Philharmonic makes an enthusiastic showing at Carnegie
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The Uncanny Charms of Naïve Simplicity Mark Morris’s “Words,’ a Premiere at Fall for Dance
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Ton- und Bildträger
Rameau: Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour review
– a real feel for the sexiness of the music Santon-Jeffrey/Vidal/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet (Glossa)
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Reviews vom 10.10.2014
Amsterdam
Living and Dying: The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates Richard Strauss
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London
An Index of Metals Review disappointing tapestry of sound and image Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
The late Fausto Romitelli’s fusion piece An Index of Metals didn’t live up its immersive ambitions in this Southbank setting http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/09/an-index-of-metals-review
Birmingham
Australian Chamber Orchestra / Tognetti Review
– persuasive experiments with Jonny Greenwood Symphony Hall, Birmingham Radiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood’s new work held its own alongside Haydn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky played by this exciting ensemble
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New York
Noch eine “Zauberflöten”-Review:
Meanings and Morals Amid Mozart’s Allegory Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte’ at the Met Opera
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Boston
After 200 years, the Handel and Haydn Society is still looking for new challenges
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Nashville
Nashville Opera delivers lush, lively “La Boheme’
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Ton- und Bildträger
Gounod: Faust (complete opera), Blu-ray (2014)
The concept is good, but the visuals don’t make it easy to watch.
http://audaud.com/2014/10/gounod-faust-complete-opera-blu-ray-2014/
Feuilleton
Comment: The unbearable lightness of… Jonas Kaufmann?
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Berlin lebt von der Sogwirkung der U-Musik”
Der Deutsche Komponistenverband feiert sein 60-jähriges Bestehen. Er verbindet alles – von Klassik über Jazz, Schlager, Kirchenmusik bis zum Crossover.
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Reviews vom 9.10.2014
Montpellier
A French opera house is “on the verge of liquidation’
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Istanbul
AKM turns into symbol of disgrace in Taksim Square
“It was designed specifically as an opera house — an edifice that differs substantially from a symphonic concert hall or a multi-use auditorium — as home to the İstanbul State Opera and Ballet, as well as the İstanbul State Symphony and the İstanbul State Theatre. (…)Now it’s the symbol of dysfunction, disgrace and the de facto destruction of everything Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Turkish Republic, stood for in his embrace of Western democracy and artistic life.”
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Glyndebourne
La Traviata review –
convincing young lovers strike sparks Glyndebourne, Lewes Tom Cairns’s modern-dress touring production enjoys fine leads in Irina Dubrovskaya and Zach Borichevsky, and skilful support throughout
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New York
Pape, Durlovski stand out in Met’s charming “Zauberflöte”
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Julie Taymor’s Magic Flutereturns to The Met
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-magic-flute-metropolitan-opera-october-2014
An All-Consuming Passion
Berlin Philharmonic Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ at the Park Avenue Armory
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Chicago
REVIEW: ‘Capriccio’ by Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Conductor Davis, radiant Fleming make a case for Strauss’s talky “Capriccio”
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Washington
Opera Lafayette celebrates 20th anniversary, and Rameau
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Seattle
Original Balanchine Stars Help Turn Much-Loved “Jewels’ Into Heirlooms Suzanne Farrell Coaches Pacific Northwest Ballet Balanchine
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Toronto
Falstaff: A Celebration of Life All-Canadian cast shines in Verdi’s masterpiece http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1003936-falstaff-a-celebration-of-life/?photo=2
Perth
Carmen stubbed out to protect opera fans from shows of smoking
“OPERA patrons will be shielded from depictions of smoking — and possibly other harmful activities such as drinking and gambling — after Western Australia’s main opera company signed a sponsorship deal with a government health-promotion agency.”
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WA Opera butts out Carmen over smoking themes after securing Healthway sponsorship
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Reviews vom 8.10.2014
Wien
Vienna State Opera, ditched by star conductors, soldiers on
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Budapest
Hungarian State Opera celebrates 130th anniversary
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Amsterdam
Royal Concertgebouw new Chief Conductor divides the critics –
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Chabrier’s L’étoile: a delightful mix of surreal, farce and poetry in Pelly’s production
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London
A tale of two Carmens: Ruxandra Donose’s Rosenblatt Recital
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-ruxandra-donose-vignoles-rosenblatt-october-2014
John Tavener Remembered review: powerful, lyrical and sparsely textured Barbican, London
The solo passages are indulgently long – but when the cello soars, the string orchestra slowly blooms into startling beauty
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Glyndebourne
Smashing fun for all: Glyndeboune on Tour’s La finta giardiniera
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-finta-giardinera-glyndebourne-tour-october-2014
Leeds
The Coronation of Poppea review amorality with an exquisite soundtrack Grand, Leeds
Tim Albery’s production suggests that the piece was a significant prototype for both kinds of opera, musical and soap
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Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea/Opera North, 4th October 2014
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New York
A Rising Ingénue Shows Off Her Instrument
Anna Lucia Richter Sings Hugo Wolf’s Lieder
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Reviews vom 7.10.2014
Wien
Poulenc’s Babar and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf charm all ages at the Konzerthaus
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-vladar-quasthoff-babar-konzerthaus-october-2014
Moskau/ Todesmeldung Yury Lyubimov
A titan of Russian theatre and opera has died, aged 97
http://slippedisc.com/2014/10/a-titan-of-russian-theatre-and-opera-has-died-aged-97/
Turin
Sacred Verdi ushers in Teatro Regio’s new season
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-verdi-requiem-noseda-turin-october-2014
London
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, review:
‘Rachmaninoff done right’ The opening concert in the LPO’s Rachmaninoff season was magical, poetic, and authentically Russian, says Ivan Hewett
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New York
A Prima Donna Stretches in More Daring Roles After Anna Netrebko’s “Macbeth’ Triumph, “Norma’ is Next
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Rattle, Mutter and Berlin Philharmonic open Carnegie season in memorable fashion
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San Francisco
Opera review: Female singers lift S.F. Opera’s ‘Ballo’
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Review: Julianna Di Giacomo elevates ‘Masked Ball’
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Feuilleton
Brahms is a prickly composer – but a powerful one As
Radio 3 dedicates a week to the German composer many find difficult to love – but whose work was hair-raisingly modern
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Reviews vom 6.10.2014
Wien
Jordan debuts as musical director of the Symphoniker with odd Schubert and Janáček pairing http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-jordan-wiener-symphoniker-october-2014
London /Nachträge zur „Fanciulla del West“:
Puccini’s Less Known Western Opera Opens at the ENO
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/lorenzo-belenguer/puccinis-eno_b_5928066.html
The Girl Of The Golden West: Opera’s Brokeback Butterfly
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A great cowboy story:
The Girl of the Golden West at the English National Opera review
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Leeds
The Coronation of Poppea, Opera North, Grand Theatre, Leeds, review:
‘has the grisly fascination of Breaking Bad’ Rupert Christiansen applauds this punchily produced account of this astonishingly modern amorality tale
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The Coronation of Poppea, Opera North
Monteverdi masterpiece played as fast-moving thriller
http://www.theartsdesk.com/opera/coronation-poppea-opera-north
New York
A Flair for the Dramatic
Is Paired With a Venture Into Danish Modernism New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen
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Toronto
Falstaff: A comic masterpiece
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Reviews vom 5.10.2014
London
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, review:
‘Rachmaninoff done right’ The opening concert in the LPO’s Rachmaninoff season was magical, poetic, and authentically Russian, says Ivan Hewett
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Cardiff
Welsh National Opera announces its 70th birthday plans –
two years early WNO declares its hand, the first major company to unveil its 2015-16 season
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Moses in Egypt, Welsh National Opera, review
‘oddly anticlimactic’ The singing is show-stopping, but this Welsh National Opera staging of Rossini’s Old Testament tale is sacrilegiously bad, says Rupert Christiensen
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New York
The Art Gallery as Spinning Montage
City Ballet Presents “Pictures From an Exhibition’
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Baltimore
Forgotten opera ‘Amleto’ proves worthy of excavation
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Forgotten “Hamlet’ at BCO shows missing link in 19th-century Italian opera
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San Francisco
San Francisco Opera leader David Gockley to resign in 2016
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Montreal
Paris Opera Ballet returns after a 47 year absence
Paquita was originally staged in 1846
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Reviews vom 5.10.2014
London
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall, review:
‘Rachmaninoff done right’ The opening concert in the LPO’s Rachmaninoff season was magical, poetic, and authentically Russian, says Ivan Hewett
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Cardiff
Welsh National Opera announces its 70th birthday plans –
two years early WNO declares its hand, the first major company to unveil its 2015-16 season
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Moses in Egypt, Welsh National Opera, review
‘oddly anticlimactic’ The singing is show-stopping, but this Welsh National Opera staging of Rossini’s Old Testament tale is sacrilegiously bad, says Rupert Christiensen
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New York
The Art Gallery as Spinning Montage
City Ballet Presents “Pictures From an Exhibition’
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Baltimore
Forgotten opera ‘Amleto’ proves worthy of excavation
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Forgotten “Hamlet’ at BCO shows missing link in 19th-century Italian opera
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San Francisco
San Francisco Opera leader David Gockley to resign in 2016
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Montreal
Paris Opera Ballet returns after a 47 year absence
Paquita was originally staged in 1846
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Reviews vom 4.10.2014
Amsterdam
Concertgebouw announces new chief conductor “Daniele Gatti will take over from Mariss Jansons next year” http://slippedisc.com/2014/10/breaking-concertgebouw-announces-new-chief-conductor/
Rom
Rome Opera sacks 200 permanent members of orchestra and chorus
Management says outsourced musicians and singers will save millions of euros as economic crisis chokes state funding of arts
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Berlin
Well-marshalled performance of Meyerbeer’s Dinorah doesn’t dispel the doubts
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-dinorah-meyerbeer-ciofi-berlin-october-2014
London
The Girl of the Golden West, ENO, London Coliseum, review:
‘lovingly performed’ Richard Jones’s simple, sincere approach to Puccini’s masterpiece is a winning formula, says Rupert Christiansen
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The Girl of the Golden West review
– true to Puccini’s California dream Coliseum, London ENO’s version of the opera comes close to sending up the action but its detailed portrayal of the mining community is compelling
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The Girl of the Golden West, Coliseum – opera review
There’s surreal humour and skilled stagecraft in this new production of Puccini’s controversial opera
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The Girl of the Golden West (London Coliseum)
Puccini’s gold rush western returns to ENO after a 50-year absence
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Opera’s Spaghetti Western: Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West at ENO
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-girl-of-the-golden-west-eno-october-2014
Manon by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera house: A heartbreaking tale
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New York
Gritty staging, Heras-Casado’s conducting lift a mixed cast in Met’s “Carmen
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Fire and ice:
Rachvelishvili and Antonenko lead a successfulCarmen revival at The Met
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The dead of Klinghoffer
With the Death of Klinghoffer, niche protest meets a niche art form Protesters in New York turned against the Metropolitan Opera’s latest production, but were unable to get it stopped. They needn’t worry
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Philadelphia
The Barber of Philadelphia
http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.co.at/2014/10/the-barber-of-philadelphia.html
Cleveland
Franz Welser-Möst Extends Cleveland Orchestra Contract
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Feuilleton
The Rumors of Opera’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Pt. 1)
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Reviews vom 3.10.2014
Amsterdam
1001 Songs: Jennifer Larmore’s risk-taking recital at the Concertgebouw
http://bachtrack.com/de_DE/review-larmore-palloc-concertgebouw-september-2014
London
The Marriage of Figaro (King’s Head Theatre)
For the final production at its Islington base, OperaUpClose tackles Mozart’s supreme masterpiece
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Placido Domingo, iTunes Festival, Roundhouse, review:
‘embarrassing but delightful’ The household name of opera beautifully closed the iTunes Festival, says Rupert Christiansen
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Interview Barnaby Rea –
New Music Barnaby Rea is a bass with the English National Opera and big dreams, says Rupert Christiansen
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Piau, Les Paladins, Correas, Wigmore Hall
An anniversary concert that was more froth than champagne
http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/piau-les-paladins-correas-wigmore-hall
New York
Metropolitan Opera’s Credit Rating Is Under Review for Possible Downgrade
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At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers
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Toronto
Interview Opera: Robert Carsen’s Falstaff
looms large in the (second) Elizabethan era Shakespeare’s roguish knight, as interpreted by Verdi, fits 1950s England perfectly, says the director of the Canadian Opera Company’s season opener. read more
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Reviews vom 2.10.2014
Moskau
Bolshoi Kicks Off Opera Season With Reduced Tchaikovsky
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London
The Marriage of Figaro, Kings Head Theatre, opera review: Inspirational
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Daniil Trifonov review – a hugely imaginative musical mind Royal Festival Hall, London
The young Russian pianist played with refinement, unflinching precision and breathtaking clarity
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/oct/01/daniil-trifonov-royal-festival-hall-review
Peter Oundjian: from injury to triumph
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra chief tells John Allison how, out of his failing skills as a violinist, he became one of the world’s top conductors
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New York
Gritty staging, Heras-Casado’s conducting lift a mixed cast in Met’s “Carmen”
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Metropolitan Opera Review 2014-15- La Boheme- A Routine Revival
With Beautiful Singing but Lacking in Drama
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Aufführung vom 27.9.
The Met’s new Figaro
http://likelyimpossibilities.blogspot.co.at/2014/09/the-mets-new-figaro.html
Weitere Review zum Pape-Recital
A Bass Voice, Contained but Inviting
René Pape in a Solo Recital at the Metropolitan Opera House
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Joyce DiDonato To Perform Opera’s “Lost Hits’ in Brooklyn
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Washington
Weitere Review zu den “Capuleti”
BWW Reviews: I Capuleti e i Montecchi Soars at Washington Concert Opera
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Ton- und Bildträger
VERDI: I Vespri Siciliani (complete opera), Blu-ray (2012)
Far better than most, with terrific sound and fine video, this Vespri is well worth the effort.
http://audaud.com/2014/09/verdi-i-vespri-siciliani-complete-opera-blu-ray-2012/
Reviews vom 1.10.2014
Berlin
Robin Ticciati beim DSO in der Philharmonie Verschollene Dramen
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Oxford
The Schubert Project: Classical music festival in Oxford to play all 600-plus songs by Austrian composer Franz Schubert
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New York
Metropolitan Opera 2014-15 Review
Rene Pape in Recital: A Triumphant Though Bleak Night From a Great Artist
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Pape strikes a lighter tone in Met Recital
http://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2014/09/pape-strikes-a-lighter-tone-in-met-recital/
New York/Washington
Foul Turned Fair
A soprano comes into her own as Verdi’s Lady Macbeth while ‘Florencia in the Amazon’ embraces the power of love
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Chicago
With a brilliant cast and edgy staging, Lyric Opera scores a triumph in “Don Giovanni“
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Washington
I Capuleti e i Montecchi”Lindsey, Portillo shine in Washington Concert Opera’s “I Capuleti
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“Three Decembers’: UrbanArias hits all the right Buttons
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Adelaide
Teddy goes Mephostophelean for SA Opera 2015
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Feuilleton
Parents think classical music is ‘elitist’ and only listen to Pop
These days it is children who introduce classical music to their parents, says former Royal Harpist Catrin Finch
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