What happens when an opera house asks a ballet dancer and choreographer with her own dance company to produce an opera? There is a lot of ballet where normally there is not, and there is hardly any Personenregie. Tannhäuser has a place for ballet, normally given to...
Parsifal Parsifal was the sixth Wagner opera to be produced at the Sofia Opera by Plamen Kartaloff in his mission to develop a Wagnerian tradition in Bulgaria. First staged in 2015, the preparation for the opera was assisted by Richard Trimborn. Kartaloff believes...
Wotan may be a god, but he never strikes me as the brightest button in the box. His decision to give away Freia as payment to the giants for Valhalla, his castle in the sky, has clearly not been thought through. So too is the Arts Council’s decision to uproot English...
Is it possible the there is one Musical Opinion reader who has never seen La Traviata? And maybe is it also possible this reader has not formed an opinion about the central character before even seeing the opera? And maybe this reader also has a great degree of...
If you stroll around the ever-expanding Salford Quays complex these days, you will see a very different Media City to the one when the Lowry Theatre first opened more than 20 years ago. BBC and ITV studios, hotels, bars, restaurants, apartment blocks, trams and an...
Lisa Peacock Concert Management Ltd announces the greatly anticipated appearance in London of Juan Pérez Floristán, Gold Medallist of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition 2021 in music by Chopin, Liszt, Wagner/Liszt and Beethoven on Saturday...
Berlin’s Musikfest attracts some of the world’s finest musicians and is a fine addition to the opening week of the new concert season at the Philharmonie. The concert on August 25 introduced German audiences to the newly appointed Klaus Mäkelä as the Artistic Partner...
The 2022 Presteigne Festival celebrated forty years of inspiring music-making in Radnorshire with a characteristically eclectic and carefully planned series of concerts taking place over six days in late August. Several exciting festival commissions and premieres...
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