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2024-02-06 14:13:09
Tosca review – full of thrills but star soprano Ausrine Stundyte doesn’t quite rise to this challenge
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Lithuanian singer is a superb actor but was not on her best form vocally here. She is strongly supported by Marcelo Puente and Gabriele Viviani and terrific conducting from Karen KamensekThe latest revival of Jonathan Kent’s familiar Covent Garden staging of
2023-10-03 13:00:05
Aida
Nicola Luisotti conducts Marina Rebeka, Elina Garanca, Yusif Eyvazov and Gabriele Viviani in a live broadcast from the Staatsopen Unter den Linden.
2023-06-30 14:00:00
Accidentally like a martyr
Chris’s Cache previews Donizetti’s Poliuto, with a broadcast starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde and Gabriele Viviani, along with Les Martyrs, the opera’s French grand opera revision, with Leyla Gencer, Mario di Felici and Renato Bruson.
2021-10-04 06:43:32
'The more light-heartedly you can handle this, the better it would be' - Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Die ägyptische Helena
[…] then Act I all over again with Strauss at the rostrum. It was like a different opera; one big line from beginning to end, the right tempi and rubatos, co-operation with the singers and many of the 4/4 passages beaten in 2." Fulham Opera performs Richard Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena at St John's Church, Fulham, SW6 1PB (19,22, 24, 26, 28 October) in a production directed by Guido Martin-Brandis, conducted by Ben Woodward/John Paul Jennings with Justine Viviani as Helena, Brian Walter Smith as Menelas, Luci Briginshaw as Aithra, Ingeborg Børch/Liza Graham as the Omniscient Mussel, Oliver Gibbs/Andrew Mayor as Altair, Dominic J Walsh as Da Ud, Liz Stock as Hermione. Full details from the Fulham Opera website. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog […]
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