Thrills and a chill in Lise Davidsen's Tosca at the Met
2024年11月17日 · The Metropolitan Opera is presenting 13 performances of Puccini's Tosca this season, broken into chunks of five, four and four, with breaks in between and each with a different and strong cast. I don't think it's untoward to say that most eyes and ears were glued to the central four (ending on 23rd November), which featured debutant Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi, Met favorite Quinn Kelsey ...
The hidden folk history of Christmas carols | Bachtrack
2024年12月12日 · Cecil Sharp, who died 100 years ago this year, was equally active, sometimes finding alternative tunes to similar text. He found another melody for The Truth Sent from Above, sung to him by Seth Vandrell and Samuel Bradley of Donnington Wood, Shropshire, and published in his 1911 English Folk Carols, a collection of 21 melodies and texts found in Worcestershire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire ...
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake : breathtakingly clear action
2024年12月13日 · Swan Lake was the basis of a sea-change in the status of Bourne’s company.Since its inception it has been seen all over the world, garnering rave reviews and sold-out houses everywhere it goes. As always, Bourne’s gentle but highly effective sense of humour shines through it, alongside his humanity and willingness to avoid sugar-coating threat or tragedy.
The Trocks: a loving tribute to Balanchine brightens up the holiday ...
2024年12月18日 · The company returned to the Joyce for a three-week residency. I caught their opening night, which mixed a tried-and-true classic (Act 2 of Giselle, staged by Yelena Tchernychova), with a world premiere (Symphony, choreographed by Durante Verzola).Symphony is a parody of Balanchine’s Symphony in C.. Giselle was mildly disappointing. There were funny aspects: the grimacing facial expressions ...
The wolf returns: Debbie Wiseman talks The Mirror and the Light
2024年11月7日 · Picking up where the first series left off, The Mirror and the Light opens in the aftermath of Anne Boleyn’s execution, with the cunning Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) rising to greater heights in the court of King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis).. Fans of the first Wolf Hall will be glad to hear that, alongside the cast, the core creative team have returned as well, including ...
Critics’ Choice 2023: the world’s top ten conductors and orchestras
2023年9月11日 · Unsurprisingly, Central European orchestras fared strongly: the Berlin Philharmonic was one of three German orchestras in our top ten, joined by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (3rd) and Leipzig Gewandhaus (9th); the Budapest Festival Orchestra punched well above its weight at 8th; and the Vienna Philharmonic were the …
Human tragedy: a punchy revival of Jones' La bohème
2024年12月18日 · Some significant names are involved. Speranza Scappucci, taking up the role of Principal Guest Conductor next year, conducted with infectious enthusiasm, brisk and rambunctious in pacing, but lingering over moments where the drama requires it at all the right points.The strings had the right swerve and, a couple of slightly uneven brass moments early on, it was a commendable performance in a ...
Sakari Oramo and spellbinding soloists in a memorable
2024年12月16日 · It wasn’t supposed to be like this. The BBC Symphony Orchestra had initially booked the late Sir Andrew Davis for Friday’s concert; instead Sakari Oramo conducted The Dream of Gerontius in his memory. Then a few days ago an ailing Nicky Spence was forced to withdraw from the taxing title role, one he recorded so triumphantly last year with Paul McCreesh, only for a dream super-sub to step in.
The Royal Ballet: MaddAddam is carried by sublime performances
2024年11月15日 · In Act 1 we meet Jimmy (Joseph Sissens), living in a tree, foraging for sustenance, believing himself to be the only human left alive.We also meet, via Jimmy’s memories, the beautiful Oryx (Fumi Kaneko), Crake’s lover but also loved by Jimmy, and Crake himself (William Bracewell), a scientific genius.
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