#ConcertReview Deutsche Oper Berlin #opera
A ‘bourgeois comedy’ is how Strauss described his autobiographical opera (1924), based on a real incident in which a misdirected letter (owing to the confusion of Strauss’s name with a similar one) was wrongly interpr

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#News #BBCProms
Friday 19 July to Saturday 14 September 2024
90 Proms: 73 at the Royal Albert Hall and 17 at venues across the UK

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#ConcertReview The Old Market #opera
John Frederick Lampe’s opera The Dragon of Wantley (1737) is based on a Yorkshire legend about a ferocious dragon who terrorises the area of Wharncliffe Crags that was made better known in a ballad. The opera served not on

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#ConcertReview
In these revelatory performances from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir András Schiff, no one could possibly doubt his passion for Mendelssohn who Hans von Bulow once waspishly declared “began life as a genius and ended a

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George, the title character of Zemlinsky’s third opera (composed between 1903 and 1907, but not premiered until long after his death in 1980) is usually taken, in his eponymous dreaming and obsession with fairy tales, to be a figure susceptible to

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#CDReview
Through their work with the Hungaraton, Decca and Hyperion labels the Takács Quartet are very much associated with the core repertoire, so this release featuring five contemporary composers, bandoneón (a

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#opera English Touring Opera Oxford Playhouse
Alongside considerable colour and exuberance, Jude Christian's production of Puccini's Manon Lescaut for English Touring Opera poignantly, even sardonically, contrasts  the life of luxury which the eponymous character cou

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#opera English Touring Opera Oxford Playhouse
Although The Rake’s Progress is ultimately a moral fable, Polly Graham’s production doesn’t take it with too much po-faced seriousness. Rather it plays up its mordant humour by presenting it as like acabaret, with a quirk

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#ConcertReview Carnegie Hall Yannick Nézet-Séguin The Philadelphia Orchestra
In a program showcasing music by the Mahlers, Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in the former’s Seventh Symphony, preceded by four elusive songs by his wife (née Alma Schindler) in ski

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#ConcertReview Southbank Centre
Edward Gardner fashioned a clear-sighted account of the Tippett, controlling the first movement’s gnarly energy and gentle sonorities with ease and allowed a natural unfolding of the music’s tension and release.

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#ConcertReview LondonHandelFestival #Handel #opera
On first glance, the three Psalm settings are probably better known to those familiar with Handel's choral music as titles among the eleven Chandos Anthems, which he wrote when working for the Duke of Chan

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The Italian Girl in London (1778) is one of the earlier operas by the prolific older contemporary of Mozart, Cimarosa. Although termed an intermezzo, as a comedy essentially it follows the same conventions of an opera buffa, and is

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#ConcertReview New Theatre Oxford
Many remember the name, in English, of Mozart and Da Ponte's third operatic collaboration as 'Women are like that', with more than a whiff of apparent misogyny in it (the ending of the Italian tutte definitely denotes that

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#ConcertReview New Theatre Oxford
Thomas Mann's literary art is noted for the various potent dichotomies which it frequently poses for consideration – between youth and maturity, growth and decay, thought and action, form and idea; and most importantly, subsu

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#OperaReview
The Royal Opera – Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer
...The unequivocal musical success is the ROH Chorus, especially the men as the sailors, who provide the real vigour and rough-hewn vim that this seabound work requires. 

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#CDReview London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle
Káťa Kabanová - Rattle with the LSO

Simon O’Neill uses plenty of dynamic variation and is suitably impassioned as Boris, if rather more Wagnerian than the fresh-voiced 25 year old Petr Dvorský.

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#ConcertReview Carnegie Hall
Back in Carnegie Hall since its 2003 concert with Christoph Eschenbach, the Orchestre de Paris, with current Music Director Klaus Mäkelä, performed two of Igor Stravinsky’s most popular scores.

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#ConcertReview Royal Opera House
Many people know the story of the human curiosity or ‘freak of nature’ Joseph Merrick, if only because of John Hurt’s depiction of him in the film The Elephant Man (memorably using Barber’s Adagio). Perhaps not much less r

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#ConcertReview Daniil Trifonov Kravis Center
This was the second of four Florida concerts on the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s U.S. tour. With chief conductor Lahav Shani the curtain-raiser was Arvo Pärt’s Swansong, based on an earlier piece that he composed

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#ConcertReview Carnegie Hall
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s high profile appointments as Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Philadelphia Orchestra have tended to eclipse his much longer partnership with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, w

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