The Royal Ballet’s Yasmine Naghdi and Reece Clarke lead the lineup for Ballet Nights 2024
Royal Ballet dancers Yasmine Naghdi and Reece Clarke head the bill for the Spring 2024 Ballet Nights.
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Anastasia Bartoli answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… singers’ edition!
Soprano Anastasia Bartoli on Lady Macbeth and her nails, her famous mother and her favourite opera, her offstage passions and opinions.
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Kevin Rhodes answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… conductors’ edition
From Strauss to Baryshnikov, Indiana to Vienna, symphonies to bartenders, conductor Kevin Rhodes talks about his passions, dislikes, career and life.
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Günther Groissböck at La Scala – triumphant with caution
Günther Groissböck’s entrance at La Scala for his recital was formal and perfectly polite, but gave away nothing about the man; and so it was during the first group of Leid by Brahms, the Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs). His unforced bass completely submitted to his will and – aside from some small cracks…
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Ildar Abdrazakov – the man with the perfect technique?
Ildar Abdrazakov’s home is the recital platform: he has great charm and brings intensity and an accomplished actor’s craft to each song, yet it seems so simple.
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Olga Peretyatko – the generous and gifted artist in recital at La Scala
Olga Peretyatko was in glorious voice for her captivating recital at La Scala. Beautiful on both the eye and the ear she charmed throughout her highly demanding and lengthy programme, bewitching the audience for more than two hours – people headed toward the exits at 10.40pm after an 8pm start. A mixed programme offered three…
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Anita Rachvelishvili and David Aladashvili cast magic at La Scala
It’s not often that the accompanist for a recital is mentioned in the opening paragraph of a review, but Anita Rachvelishvili‘s recital at La Scala with pianist David Aladashvili was a true joint effort, not just musically, but from how they shared the stage. They obviously know each other very well and although Aladashvili, a…
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Doodles in the Bolshoi archives
The death of a tyrant, abduction by the secret police and insight into the minds of some of the greatest composers in history are all part of the details that Russia‘s Bolshoi Theatre has discovered in the margins of the centuries-old sheet music in its archives. The discoveries have been made during the digitalization of…
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