Among the offerings are early and mature works, a pairing with Berlioz, and a Jerome Robbins dance work set to Chopin’s music, as well as Dvorak’s opera “Dimitrij.” Read entire story.
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Among the offerings are early and mature works, a pairing with Berlioz, and a Jerome Robbins dance work set to Chopin’s music, as well as Dvorak’s opera “Dimitrij.” Read entire story.
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Coliseum, LondonRory Kinnear debuts as director for English National Opera in Ryan Wigglesworth’s accomplished first opera, but the inventive music fails to take charge of the storyRyan Wigglesworth says he has been obsessed with Shakespeare’s late play for 20 years, and that made The Winter’s Tale the obvious choice of subject … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian
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Breaking The Waves, the new Missy Mazzoli-Royce Vavrek opera, caused a huge wave (ahem) of excitement when Opera Philadelphia premiered it in October – and even more when the production traveled to New York in January. As a result, reports Peter Dobrin, the company now has terrific word-of-mouth … Read entire story.
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“It’s not just a question of whether you like the music, or think you like it; it’s a question of knowing that it exists. Although Glass has written 11 symphonies, [conductor Dennis Russell] Davies says that when a major American orchestra was recently approached about performing Glass, the response was, ‘But … Read entire story.
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SSE Hydro, GlasgowThe Followill boys scarcely acknowledge each other during a slick and tidy two-hour set powered by predictable arena rock Although it’s nearly a decade since their fourth album, Only By the Night, made them household names around the world, familial Nashville manband Kings of Leon only now … Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian