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...Director Mart van Berckel and director/ choreographer Nanine Linning stepped in at the last moment to take over the staging of the old and the new oratorio respectively and achieved an elegant, darkly moving...
...Stage director Robert Carsen reads Glanert’s haunting love scene between Rahel and Alfonso VIII as a dream of religious utopia....
...Jacqueline Smith Maritime Coordinator The International Transport Workers’ FederationLondon SE1, UK...
...This was not the tale told by director Kornél Mundruczó at Sunday night’s premiere in Berlin....
...Scripted by Susanne Farrell and Alexander Maksik from the latter’s novel A Marker to Measure Drift, the film is directed with calm control — if a slight lack of stylistic verve — by Singaporean director...
...The Berlin Staatsoper has turned the Alter Orchesterprobensaal, its former orchestral rehearsal room, over to director Silvia Costa and dramaturge/pianist Alain Franco for an hour-long event featuring the...
...Born in Hong Kong, Chan was eight years old — and already an avid pianist and choral singer — when she attended a Hong Kong Sinfonietta concert conducted by its female music director, Wing-sie Yip....
...This is the second music-theatre evening in the hall this month, following a dynamic incarnation of Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with puppetry by South African director Janni Younge....
...The stage director’s focus is on the psychodrama of Salome, a traumatised woman-child who has been abused by her stepfather and neglected by her mother....
...For director Peter Sellars, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1693 opera is the perfect vehicle for a reflection on contemporary injustices. People in cages; forced repatriation....
...Last week the house appointed Christian Thielemann to succeed Daniel Barenboim as general music director. And now this....
...For the Komische Oper’s season-opener, stage director Tobias Kratzer has wisely avoided any overt contemporary or political references....
...And, as with her superb performance in Shirley Valentine last year, she brings great wit, infectious warmth and aching vulnerability to Myrtle, giving meaning to the tiniest purse of the lips or sideways...
...So it was an embarrassed Winrich Hopp, artistic director of the festival, who took the stage before Saturday’s opening concert to explain that the high drama of Berlioz’s Les Troyens had “leaked into reality...
...When the erstwhile Salzburg Festival director Gerard Mortier, at the time indendant in Madrid, brought together director Peter Sellars and conductor Teodor Currentzis to tackle Henry Purcell’s unfinished...
...Warlikowski is one of the most thoughtful, intriguing and meticulous opera directors of our time, but he is churning out productions and losing his own originality....
...Director Jay Scheib and his team have gone to immense lengths to provide some of the audience with augmented reality glasses, though in the end they could only furnish 330 pairs for an audience of almost...
...They’re all on the agenda this year, as well as music ranging from Puccini to Aussie pop sensation Troye Sivan; choreographies exploring the lives and work of Nijinksy and Jacqueline du Pré; the world’s...
...In 2007, she took up a job as director of a smaller Swiss company, Bern Ballett, where she ended up on a collision course with German-style Regietheater — a more director-centric, experimental way of staging...
...Writer-director Ted Huffman and composer Philip Venables have written a piece of music theatre based on Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s eponymous 1977 cult fantasy novel, a “fairytale-cum-manifesto” (Artforum...
...In the hands of stage director Nigel Lowery, music director Bernhard Forck and Berlin’s Akademie für Alte Musik, Zemira e Azor was much more than a consolation prize. It was a discovery and a delight....
...But I particularly object to Shirley Apthorp’s sideswipe about the appointment of Christian Thielemann as successor to Daniel Barenboim as general music director at Berlin’s Staatsoper....
...In its detachment and ambiguity, this is a profoundly unsettling Lulu, and the director’s team was roundly booed in curtain calls. But should Lulu ever be comfortable viewing?...
...Jacqueline Karachi has never worked anywhere besides Cartier....
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