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5 days ago |
bachtrack.com | Peter Quantrill
At the Bucharest Opera Festival, regional companies face the challenge of adapting a production for a stage which may be two or even three times larger than their home theatre. More shrewdly than their colleagues in other houses, the principals for this compelling Lucia di Lammermoor from the Galați Opera took every opportunity to come downstage from the drop-in set, though the lighting did not always follow them.
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1 week ago |
gramophone.co.uk | Peter Quantrill
The fourth edition of the Bucharest Opera Festival was launched on Sunday night with an opulent showcase for the talents of the host company.
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3 weeks ago |
thestrad.com | Peter Quantrill
An A-lister line-up proves a mixed bag on this anniversary celebration The Strad Issue: June 2025 Description: An A-lister line-up proves a mixed bag on this anniversary celebration Musicians: Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons Works: Shostakovich: Cello Concertos nos.1 and 2 Catalogue number: DG 4866949 The decades of experience Yo-Yo Ma brings to this music tells from the outset in the offhand, almost downbeat start to the First Concerto, all the better to build a...
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3 weeks ago |
hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
A big prize for a contemporary composer – from an unexpected source – has Peter Quantrill wondering why we don’t see more cross-pollination and mutual recognition between art formsIn the UK, at least, Chanel is still known first and foremost as a signifier of French chic, whether in the image of Coco, or the perfume bottles reassuring husbands of a duty fulfilled, or in the handbags bought by women to please themselves.
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3 weeks ago |
hifinews.com | Peter Quantrill
In this genre-melting, career-defining piece, the composer hoped to capture America’s ‘pep’ and ‘metropolitan madness’. Peter Quantrill surveys a century of recordings Imagine being George Gershwin [pictured above, in 1937]. There you are at breakfast one day in January 1924, chewing over ideas for your next musical, when your brother reads out an announcement in the newspaper. The impresario Paul Whiteman has arranged a concert on 12 February.
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Faust in Bucharest - my review for Opera Now. tl:dr - no, the devil doesn't have all the best tunes. Marguerite has most of them, at least when sung by Anita Hartig. https://t.co/L8hP2WmT7c
RT @euromove: Young European Movement UK President Alfred Quantrill strongly hopes for a youth mobility agreement, ideally linked to Erasmu…
RT @bachtrack: Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal @glyndebourne ✍️ Peter Quantrill https://t.co/oqS2Nw0kam
