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L’Orfeo review – Kentridge’s exhilarating creativity animates compelling Monteverdi

A visual whirlwind accompanies charismatic and stylish performances in William Kentridge’s new staging. In the pit, Jonathan Cohen and the OAE add light and shade

The Guardian - UK

From Masters of the Universe to Monteverdi: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The cartoon favourite and Mattel toy He-Man battles Skeletor on the big screen, and Garsington continues its run of excellent early operas

The Guardian - UK

Ancient amour

I was recently on short notice to attend a concert at the Banyan Tree Hotel -- Ecco La Primavera: Love Songs Of The Renaissance by Siam Sinfonietta. The programme looked strange -- I didn't recognise any of the pieces.

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Angel’s Bone review – frenetic and unsettling allegory of human trafficking marks ENO’s Manchester debut

Kip Williams’ in-the-round staging, with the action live-projected onto enormous screens, can be disorientating, but Du Yun’s Pulitzer-winning work is compelling and kaleidoscopic

The Guardian - UK

Danny L Harle: Cerulean review – an earnest homage to early 00s bangers or a poor imitation?

On a high-minded album boasting a weighty guest list including Dua Lipa and Clairo, the superproducer lacks the hooks of the pop-trance he’s so heavily influenced by

The Guardian - UK

Nero's ancient Rome and Jazz Age New York meet in `The Comet/Poppea' at Lincoln Center

“The Comet/Poppea” has started its five-performance run at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City in New York

The Independent UK

Concerto Italiano/Alessandrini review – purity and expressiveness as natural as breathing

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonRinaldo Alessandrini and his six superlative vocalists celebrated their 40th anniversary with a return to Monteverdi – the composer with whom they first established their reputation

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Alexander Goehr: composer who brought European avant garde sensibilities to stuffy 50s Britain

Goehr, who has died, was a founder of the New Music Manchester group with Harrison Birtwistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, revolutionising the parochial world of British music

The Guardian - UK

L’Incoronazione di Poppea review – sexting, dope and toxic masculinity in Monteverdi update

Director Walter Sutcliffe’s modern-day production of Monteverdi’s take on Emperor Nero scores some hits but as many misses. Musically, though, it is outstanding

The Guardian - UK

Our top 10 classical recordings of 2023

Previously unexplored corners of repertoire, why Italians are outstanding Monteverdians, and a recording of Liszt with huge verve and personality

The Guardian - UK

Bevan/BBCSO/Wigglesworth review – intensely personal and panoramic Magnificat from husband and wife team

Conducting his own setting, dedicated to wife and soloist Sophie Bevan, Ryan Wigglesworth captured the scale and scope of a text that spans ‘the history and future of humanity’. Bevan was also glorious in a tantalising fragment of Monteverdi

The Guardian - UK

Monteverdi: Tutti I Madrigali album review – Alessandrini has achieved something truly outstanding

Twenty-eight years in the making, Rinaldo Alessandrini finally completes his wonderful survey of Monteverdi madrigals, and the complete set is a joy to behold

The Guardian - UK

The Coronation of Poppea review – ETO’s gender-fluid staging has fizz but also flaws

Monteverdi’s opera about unfettered desire is pulled into the present day in Robin Norton-Hale’s stylised production with fine singing and solid musical support from Yshani Perinpanayagam

The Guardian - UK

Monteverdi, Knotty Charmer, Galahad, Mazal Tov and All Attractive shine

Monteverdi, Knotty Charmer, Galahad, Mazal Tov and All Attractive shone when the horses were exercised in Bengaluru on Wednesday morning (June 21).

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The Guardian - UK

Hallé/Wigglesworth review – British composer debuts an outstanding Magnificat

Ryan Wigglesworth composes a finessed Monteverdi Magnificat with the elegant, expansive assistance of wife and soprano Sophie Bevan and a virtuosic choir

The Guardian - UK

Clorinda Agonistes review – a dance of love and death on the battlefield

A crusader and a Saracen have a fateful encounter in this richly layered work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, set to Monteverdi and a plangent score by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom

The Guardian - UK

A rebel with a cause: how I breathed new life into Monteverdi’s Saracen warrior

It was the energy of the baroque gem Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda that first drew choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, but its enigmatic heroine became an obsession. She explains why she has given Clorinda a new story – and an extra body

The Hindu

Lake Tahoe primed to deliver in Governor’s Cup

BENGALURU: Lake Tahoe, who has been well prepared, is expected to score in the Governor’s Cup (2,4

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Olga Neuwirth: Orlando review – sumptuous staging but music drama lacks Woolf’s wit

Neuwirth’s 2019 opera adapting and updating Virginia Woolf’s story has an outstanding lead in Kate Lindsey although it ultimately feels less than the sum of its parts

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