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Death in Venice review – Britten’s final opera soars in WNO’s captivating staging

The Guardian 08 Mar 2024

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Olivia Fuchs’ new production casts aerialists as the Polish family to stunning effect ... It is indeed his supreme grace and athleticism that holds the whole audience in his thrall ... ....

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Homework, not theatre: WNO's Cosi fan tutte reviewed

The Spectator 07 Mar 2024

Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte hasn’t always been taken seriously. In fact for much of the 19th century it wasn’t even reckoned to be very good (Donald Tovey described its characters as ‘humanly speaking, rubbish’) ... Hoehn has one major new insight ... Literally ... .

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Cosi fan tutte review — Mozart’s tale of love in a surreal new makeover by WNO

The Times/The Sunday Times 26 Feb 2024

Mozart gave Così fan tutte an alternative title, La scuola degli amanti, which is taken desperately literally in Welsh National Opera’s new production ... Related articles. MUSIC ... our reviews ... .

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Równość już na etapie projektowania: sposób na zarządzanie ryzykiem dyskryminacji związanym z AI

The Eagle-Tribune 16 Feb 2024

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--lut 16, 2024--. Od 2021 r. Mary Kay Inc. współpracuje z organizacją Equal Rights Trust (ERT), której misja polega na wspieraniu postępów na rzecz równości za pośrednictwem prawodawstwa na całym świecie ... (Photo. Mary Kay Inc.) ... PUB.

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At WNO’s American Opera Initiative, three glimpses into the future

The Washington Post 21 Jan 2024

The Washington National Opera’s incubator program for young composers and librettists presented three short works in progress at the Kennedy Center ... .

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New interim director for WNO

British Theatre Guide 04 Dec 2023

WNO ... WNO’s current General Director Aidan Lang is to retire at the end of this year following four years in the role and more than 40 years working in opera globally.

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It’s easy to fall in love with WNO’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’

The Washington Post 05 Nov 2023

Simon Godwin’s visually arresting production shines with a cast including soprano Rosa Feola and tenor Adam Smith ... .

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World Premiere of ‘Grounded’ Opens WNO Season

The Georgetowner 02 Nov 2023

It made sense for “Grounded,” a Metropolitan Opera commission, to have its world premiere in Pentagon-adjacent Washington, D.C. Opening in the Kennedy Center Opera House on Oct. 28, the show ....

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Take me out to the … opera? Nats Park hosts free ‘Opera in the Outfield’

Wtop 27 Sep 2023

with the Jumbotron screening of Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La bohème” with Alevtina Ioffe conducting the WNO Orchestra under the guidance of WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello.

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The future of opera – I hope: WNO's Candide reviewed

The Spectator 27 Jul 2023

Too soon?) ... Most popular. Matt Ridley ... The economics of subsidised opera are inscrutable and it seems bizarre that WNO has lavished such effort on a potential smash, only to slip it out for a brief late-season tour to Brecon, Truro and Brum ... SUBSCRIBE ... .

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Candide review – WNO go for broke with picaresque, Pythonesque craziness

The Guardian 23 Jun 2023

The task is not unlike the dangerous journey across two continents on which Voltaire sends Candide – his gullible Gulliver of a hero – in search of the truth of human existence ... Reality was worse then and is no better today ... ....

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WNO sinks an unsinkable opera: The Magic Flute, at Birmingham Hippodrome, reviewed

The Spectator 11 May 2023

As stage directions go, the The Magic Flute opens with a zinger. ‘Tamino enters from the right wearing a splendid Japanese hunting costume.’ That’s right, a Japanese hunting costume ... Even the peerless WNO Chorus didn’t sound its usual red-blooded self.

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In WNO’s belated ‘Blue,’ a powerhouse family portrait of joy and pain

The Washington Post 12 Mar 2023

Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s celebrated opera "Blue" arrives at the Kennedy Center after a three-year postponement ... .

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The Magic Flute review – WNO’s hectic new version is a lightsaber too far

The Guardian 06 Mar 2023

Evans’s backstory comes with the overture, making young Pamina and Tamino childhood friends, abruptly separated when Pamina is spirited away from her manic mother, Queen of the Night, by Sarastro, King of the Day ... ....

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