Eine neue Oper von Peter Eötvös in Paris uraufgeführt Peter Eötvös, der ungarische Komponist und Dirigent, heuer sechzig geworden, fühlt sich schon seit je zum Theater hingezogen. Seine Musik hat…
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Don Pasquale at Covent Garden
Opera: Don Pasquale Robert Thicknesse at Covent Garden JONATHAN MILLER certainly has it in for Covent Garden. A few weeks ago he hilariously described the crowd here as “Harrods Food…
Angels in America at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Clipping the wings of an apocalyptic epic (Filed: 27/11/2004) Rupert Christiansen reviews Angels in America at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris There are plenty of wonderful operas taken from good plays,…
LA Opera Presents Vanessa
A fully American grand opera Los Angeles Opera stages the seldom-produced “Vanessa” By John Farrell Special to U-Entertainment Thursday, November 25, 2004 – Los Angeles Opera has been steering its…
Eugene Onegin at SFO
Soaring Opera hits new heights in Tchaikovsky’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ Joshua Kosman, Chronicle Music Critic Friday, November 26, 2004 Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” is a story of strong emotion accommodating itself, painfully…
OONY Presents La Fanciulla del West
Superb, if mixed, Fanciulla at OONY Last night’s La Fanciulla del West at Carnegie Hall was the classic case of the whole being much better than the sum of its…
Performance Note: Helikon Opera of Moscow Performs Nabucco at Dijon
The Helikon Opera of Moscow is in residence for three weeks at Dijon. Its first production was Verdi’s Nabucco. In ResMusica.com, Edouard Bailly reviews this production with lavish praise for…
Verdi’s Macbeth at Madrid
Macbeth and the darkness Madrid Teatro Real 11/10/2004 – Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth Carlos álvarez (Macbeth), Paoletta Marrocu (Lady Macbeth), Aquiles Machado (Macduff), Guillermo Orozco (Malcolm), Carlo Colombara (Banquo). Orchestra and…
Handel’s Semele at the ENO
Semele Robert Thicknesse at the Coliseum [Times Online, 20 November 2004] IT HAS to be the Prince of Wales’s favourite opera. “Nature to each allots his proper sphere,” avers Congreve’s…
Tosca at Graz
bq. Boris Trajanov, Evan Bowers and Marquita Lister Opernhaus Graz’s new production of Tosca is a hit. According to Larry Lash of the Financial Times, bq. A stage direction in…