Bel Air Classiques
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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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Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice Roberto Alagna (Orphée), Serena Gamberoni (Eurydice) & Marc Barrard (L'Amour)
Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, Giampaolo Bisanti
The first of several fade-cuts… takes us to the scene of a car crash, where paramedics pull Eurydice's body from the wreckage. Thence to the graveyard, whence all that follows is Orphée's dream.... — 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…
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Verdi: Nabucco George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Rubens Pelizzari (Ismaele), Rafał Siwek (Zaccaria), Susanna Branchini (Abigaille), María José Moreno (Fenena), Nicolò Ceriani (High Priest of Belo), Paolo Antognetti (Abdallo) & Elena Borin (Anna)
Daniel Oren, Arnaud Bernard
This performance boasts a very decent cast. George Gagnidze is in bullish form as Nabucco, his baritone rock solid if not especially beautiful…Branchini has her wild moments as Abigaille, but... — More…
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Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande Jacques Imbrailo (Pelléas), Corinne Winters (Mélisande), Kyle Ketelsen (Golaud), Brindley Sherratt (Arkel), Yvonne Naef (Geneviève), Damien Göritz (Yniold)
Philharmonia Zürich, Alain Altinglu, Dmitri Tcherniakov
The score is beautifully played by the Zurich orchestra. Offering delicacy and intensity at the same time, Alain Altinoglu’s sensitive conducting is notable for its constant search for detail...Every... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Iuliia Moskalenko, Mykyta Sukhorukov
Ballet Company of the National Opera of Ukraine & Orchestra and Chorus of the National Opera of Ukraine, Oleksiy Baklan
