Bel Air Classiques
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Bernstein: Wonderful Town Jasmine Roy (Ruth Sherwood), Rafaëlle Cohen (Eileen Sherwood), Dalia Constantin (Helen), Lauren Van Kempen (Violet), Alyssa Landry (Mrs Wade), Maxime De Toledo (Robert Baker), Thomas Boutilier (Wreck) & Franck Lopez (Lonigan)
Orchestre et Choeur de l’Opera de Toulon, Larry Blank (conductor)...
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Yuri Temirkanov Vol.1 Denis Matsuev (piano)
Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
Lots of bravura but little subtlety from Matsuev. Symphony No. 4 gets more compelling as it progresses but the opaque long-distance shots of the orchestra are distracting. — More…
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Tribute to Jerome Robbins Paris Opera Ballet & Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris, Koen Kessels
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Baroque Academie : Le Jardin des Voix Francesca Boncompagni (soprano) Italy, Claire Meghnagi (soprano) Italy / Israel, Laura Hynes Smith (soprano) USA, Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) Bulgaria, Amaya Dominguez (mezzo-soprano) France, Michal Czerniawski (countertenor) Poland, Juan Sancho (tenor) Spain, Pascal Charbonneau (tenor) Canada, Nicholas...
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Au Soleil Même La Nuit Scènes d’accouchements
Eric Darmon & Catherine Vilpoux
Théâtre du Soleil, Ariane Mnouchkine
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Ludovic Tézier (Il Conte di Almaviva), Barbara Frittoli (La Contessa di Almaviva), Ekaterina Siurina (Susanna), Luca Pisaroni (Figaro), Karine Deshayes (Cherubino), Ann Murray (Marcellina), Robert Lloyd (Bartolo)
Paris Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Philippe Jordan
This Franco-Italian-Russian-Irish-English combo plays well together … this cast sings well too...Jordan's conducting sound large-scale and Romantic to our period ears...this new set plays as... — More…
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Berg: Lulu Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Daniela Sindram (Gräfin Geschwitz), Rainer Trost (Der Maler/Ein Neger), Bo Skovhus (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Matthias Klink (Alwa), Martin Winkler (Ein Tierbändiger/Ein Athlet), Pavlo Hunka (Schigolch)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Tcherniakov
[Petersen’s Lulu] is neither determined rebel nor passive victim, but self-endangered by her desperation to be loved…For all Lulu’s teasing come-ons, the production lacks erotic charge…Yet all... — More…
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Berg: Lulu Marlis Petersen (Lulu), Daniela Sindram (Gräfin Geschwitz), Rainer Trost (Der Maler/Ein Neger), Bo Skovhus (Dr. Schön/Jack the Ripper), Matthias Klink (Alwa), Pavlo Hunka (Schigolch), Christoph Stephinger (Der Theaterdirektor)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Tcherniakov
[Petersen’s Lulu] is neither determined rebel nor passive victim, but self-endangered by her desperation to be loved…For all Lulu’s teasing come-ons, the production lacks erotic charge…Yet all... — More…
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Marc Mauillon (Pelléas), Jenny Daviet (Mélisande), Laurent Alvaro (Golaud), Stephen Bronk (Arkel), Emma Lyren (Genevieve), Julie Mathevet (Yniold), Stefano Olcese (Médecin, Berger)
Malmö Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maxime Pascal
One thinks ‘Aha, a stage director who understands the music!’. Plaudits to Benjamin Lazar. As often, Golaud lies at the centre of events. Mélisande is a flaky young thing to whom Jenny Daviet... — More…
