Bel Air Classiques
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Sneguirev briefly charts the history of the edifice, and provides hair-raising commentary about its decrepitude...It is a grand and beautiful house for ballet and opera, and this fine and loving... —
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Special offer. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Marc Mauillon (Pelléas), Jenny Daviet (Mélisande), Laurent Alvaro (Golaud), Stephen Bronk (Arkel), Emma Lyren (Genevieve), Julie Mathevet (Yniold), Stefano Olcese (Médecin, Berger)
Malmö Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maxime Pascal
One thinks ‘Aha, a stage director who understands the music!’. Plaudits to Benjamin Lazar. As often, Golaud lies at the centre of events. Mélisande is a flaky young thing to whom Jenny Daviet... —
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Special offer. Rameau: Les Indes Galantes
Dancers of Eastman, Münchner Festspielorchester, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Freiburg, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Stage director and choreographer)
Stylishly played by the Munich Festival Orchestra under Ivor Bolton, the music of Rameau’s episodic exotic fantasy glows brightly in this performance…Dancers of the Eastman weave through the... —
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Minkus: La Bayadère
Svetlana Zakharova (Bayadère Nikiya), Vladislav Lantratov (Solor), Maria Alexandrova (Gamzatti), Alexey Loparevich (Dugmanta, Rajah), Andrey Sitnikov (The High Brahmin) & Denis Medvedev (The Golden Idol)
Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Pavel Sorokin
Kitsch even by classical ballet standards, this Bolshoi production of the Marius Petipa-choreographed oriental fantasy wit bland music by Minkus boasts a celebrated Kingdom of Shades sequence. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Nabucco
George Gagnidze (Nabucco), Susanna Branchini (Abigaille), Rubens Pelizzari (Ismaele), Rafal Siwek (Zaccaria), María José Moreno (Fenena), Nicolò Ceriani (High Priest of Belo), Paolo Antognetti (Abdallo), Elena Borin (Anna); Daniel Oren, Arnaud Bernard
This performance boasts a very decent cast. George Gagnidze is in bullish form as Nabucco, his baritone rock solid if not especially beautiful…Branchini has her wild moments as Abigaille, but... —
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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Iuliia Moskalenko, Mykyta Sukhorukov
Ballet Company of the National Opera of Ukraine & Orchestra and Chorus of the National Opera of Ukraine, Oleksiy Baklan
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Special offer. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), Yulia Sokolik (Fyodor), Eri Nakamura (Xenia), Heike Grötzinger (Nurse), Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Andrey), Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen), Sergey Skorokhodov (Grigory), Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam)
Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kent Nagano, Calixto Bieito
the updating seems neither modish nor forced, and is carried out with economy and intelligence...There's no dip in commitment anywhere in the cast. Tsymbalyuk's Boris, sung in a pleasingly smooth,... —
