Jonas Kaufmann and Sonya Yoncheva shine in a cinema-influenced staging that updates the opera, seemingly to the 1940s or ’50s. Read entire story.
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Jonas Kaufmann and Sonya Yoncheva shine in a cinema-influenced staging that updates the opera, seemingly to the 1940s or ’50s. Read entire story.
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“Aida,” “Salome” and “Lohengrin” will be performed in both New York and Moscow from 2019 to 2022. Read entire story.
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Millennium Centre, CardiffWelsh National Opera’s revival brings David Pountney’s 1982 version back to grim and glorious life and restores Janáček’s original musical visionJanáček’s adaptation of Dostoevsky’s partly autobiographical novel, set in a Siberian prison camp, is not an opera for the fainthearted. The fate of those incarcerated in a hell pit … Read entire story.
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Hackney Empire, LondonEnglish Touring Opera’s ambitious autumn programme features two baroque operas that both deal with sex and war and the private and the political English Touring Opera’s autumn season centres on two great baroque works, Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Rameau’s Dardanus. They’re poles apart in style: Rameau’s tragédie lyrique … Read entire story.
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Glyndebourne, LewesHytner’s sunny, unironic staging of Mozart’s problematic comedy – about to tour for a final time – is one of the most intelligent and insightful aroundGlyndebourne has always honoured Mozart as its patron saint. That’s good for Glyndebourne and, largely, good for Mozart. But one side-… Read entire story.
Source: Music | The Guardian