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It is a virtuoso performance. Rupert the horse, sticking his neck through the stable door, responds on cue and swallows the sugar proffered by Falstaff. “Mondo ladro”, the most poignant aria in Verdi’s operatic swan song, is duly upstaged: the horse ...
May 15, 2012 at 23:54 | Source: Financial Times
A handful of superlatives to begin. The new Royal Ballet programme of Ballo della regina and La Sylphide is tremendous. Johan Kobborg’s staging of La Sylphide is the best I know, the most sensitive to Bournonville’s drama and manner. And Steven McRae ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:52 | Source: Financial Times
LONDON (Reuters) - A new production of Verdi's "Falstaff" at the Royal Opera features a big man on a big ... opens La Scala's 200th birthday tribute season to Verdi in an opera house that is notorious for rough and swift verdicts on productions ...
May 22, 2012 at 11:14 | Source: Reuters
IN THE THEATRE, so much can go wrong. When it comes to performing a multistranded classical ballet, the chance of lighting, dancers, music, scenery and steps all coalescing into a faultless whole seems as likely as winning a rollover Lottery. Well, dance ...
May 27, 2012 at 04:41 | Source: express.co.uk
Writer and broadcaster Edward Seckerson is Chief Classical Music and Opera Critic for The Independent. He wrote and presented the long-running BBC Radio 3 series Stage & Screen, in which he interviewed many of the most prominent writers and stars of ...
May 12, 2012 at 23:00 | Source: The Independent
I HAVE seen some strange double bills in my time but this one takes the HobNob. The juxtaposition of Balanchine’s airily angular ballet, Ballo Della Regina, with one of the earliest Romantic works in existence, Bournonville’s La Sylphide, is unnatural ...
May 25, 2012 at 16:18 | Source: express.co.uk
There are some great performances in an amusing new production of Verdi’s “Falstaff” (1893) at the Royal Opera House in London. Yet Rupert the horse manages to outshine everyone else on stage. Director Robert Carsen sets the action in the ...
May 22, 2012 at 23:17 | Source: Bloomberg
David McVicar’s production of Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House has just been revived, and I went along on Friday night hoping my friend was right. Based on a play by Victor Hugo, Verdi's opera is set at the Mantaun court where the jester Rigoletto ...
May 25, 2012 at 12:14 | Source: Daily Telegraph
Virgin Media Pioneers, an initiative by the telco to help talented youngsters with their careers, has launched The Project – which is offering paid and accredited work experience for 100 unemployed 18-29 year olds in the creative industries across the UK.
May 14, 2012 at 15:34 | Source: Digital Arts Online
The ballet will premiere next month (April 5) at the Royal Opera House and will run as part of a triple bill that will have six performances in total. 'Carbon Life' will be set to a cycle of nine love songs which will be sung by Pierce, Mosshart ...
May 18, 2012 at 10:21 | Source: NME