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...David Alden’s 2006 production of Jenůfa came late to the party, but its bleak, minimalist settings, with incipient violence lurking outside a rundown factory, still provides an effective frame if the performance...
...Cyrille Dubois is the stylish Jason and Thomas Dolié and David Witczak give fine support as Creon and Orontes....
...The forest belongs in the German Romantic tradition of Caspar David Friedrich, rather than conjuring a world of Disneyesque enchantment....
...This symphony is a fail-safe work in performance and David Afkham led the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an adequately played account that was well dramatised, stinting neither in volume (challenging in the Barbican...
...It is very doubtful that David Alden’s 2009 production would have pleased Britten, but it has strengths alongside its irritations....
...‘Intelligence’ premieres at Houston Grand Opera on October 20, houstongrandopera.org ‘Stabat Mater’ is at David Geffen Hall, New York, on November 22, 24 and 25, nyphil.org ‘El Niño’ opens at the Metropolitan...
...Originally presented in 1975, it has classic designs by David Hockney, the prime reason for its popularity....
...Among the others, David Bednall’s Assumpta est Maria opens with catchy syncopations, but settles into a consoling conclusion....
...David McVicar’s handsome and lively The Marriage of Figaro, first seen in 2006 and now on its 10th revival, is near the top of the list....
...David Matthews’s String Quartet No 17 showed how much life there still is in traditional structures and a musical language that verges on Romanticism....
...Christine Rice was a glowingly sung Brangäne, David Stout an impressively strong Kurwenal, and Matthew Rose a deeply considered, resonant King Marke....
...Among the other works, David Fennessy’s Rosewoods interwove decorative guitar filigree and string murmurings inspired by the Italian Chapel decorated by prisoners-of-war in Orkney, palpably evoking the flickering...
...Similarly, David Butt Philip, also most recently seen in Janáček, is her youthful and engaging Prince....
...It will soon be 20 years since David McVicar’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte was first seen at the Royal Opera....
...Robert Murray, though not mellifluous, was a vivid Essex and there was a strong double act from Charles Rice and David Soar as Cecil and Raleigh....
...His substantial tally, eclectic in style, includes thriller The Riddle of the Sands, vampire horror The Hunger starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie, and A Month in the Country with Colin Firth, as...
...It has taken David Lang 14 years to complete his unaccompanied choral work The Writings....
...The New York Philharmonic’s 2022-23 season opens at the new David Geffen Hall on October 12, lincolncenter.org...
...The men were less impressive, tenor David Junghoon Kim at his poetic best in softer passages but constricted on top notes, while Kihwan Sim sounded too youthful, a touch shallow....
...If David Alden’s production left a lingering sense of déjà vu, that is because he already directed Otello for English National Opera back in 2014....
...This story starts when Nwanoku was called to a meeting by Ed Vaizey, minister for culture in David Cameron’s government in the early 2010s....
...In tune with expectations today, director David Pountney has sharpened the satire....
...David Pountney directs....
...David Henry Hwang’s award-winning play M Butterfly takes on new life as an opera, music by Huang Ruo, libretto by the author himself, getting its premiere as the last of Santa Fe’s five operas this year....
...Two other works — David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion (2007) and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s Song (2010) — completed this one-hour concert by four expert singers from the Danish group Theatre of...
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