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Alastair Macaulay's review: Jenufa never fails

Jan 16, 2025 | slippedisc.com | Alastair Macaulay

The Royal Opera’s “Jenufa”By Alastair MacaulayLeoš Janáćek’s opera “Jenůfa” – one of the great works of the human spirit – takes a tragic situation, deepens it, and then transcends it. The unmarried Jenůfa is made pregnant by one man, Śteva, and has her face slashed by another Laca, whose love for her drives him to this shocking violence.
'Thin, dull and obvious'

Nov 15, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Alastair Macaulay

Our renowned ballet reviewer had an unusually bad night:MaddAddam, Wayne McGregor’s Timidly Clichéd Dystopiaby Alastair MacaulayIn Wayne McGregor’s new three-act “MaddAddam”, the Royal Ballet has chosen to present us with the triumph of the inept, the mediocre, and the neo-bland – dolled up as if they were innovative and bold. McGregor made this harmless piece of dreariness two years ago for the National Ballet of Canada, and yet the Royal at Covent Garden has chosen to import it.
Alastair Macaulay: A new golden age of choreography?

Oct 23, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Alastair Macaulay

Alastair Macaulay reviews the Royal Ballet’s latest for slippedisc.com:Encounters: Four Contemporary Balletsby Alastair MacaulayThe Royal Ballet, as if proclaiming that we have entered a great era of new ballet choreography, is beginning its season entirely with repertory choreographed in the twenty-first century.
Star pianist: AI will never replace me - Slippedisc

Sep 28, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Norman Lebrecht

From an interview by Christian Berzins with Khatia...
Now Berlin cuts music lessons in schools - Slippedisc

Sep 15, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Norman Lebrecht

This message has been posted by the Komische...
Alastair Macaulay: This Swan Lake is a work in progress

Aug 30, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Alastair Macaulay

From our ballect critic:Georgian State Ballet Swan Lake 2024.viii.30by Alastair MacaulayThe ballerina Nina Ananiashvili – a Georgian who starred with the Bolshoi Ballet of Moscow and American Ballet Theatre and gave memorable guest performances with many other companies – had a glorious stage career before she became director of the State Ballet of Georgia, to which she has brought Western choreography by George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and others.
Review: A prophet with some honour

Jul 29, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Susan Hall

Roving critic Susan Hall has been to see Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète at Bard College, its first US staging in almost half a century. Worth the wait? by Susan HallLeon Botstein regularly produces musical works not often performed. At Summerscape, Dr. Botstein’s Bard music festival, he conducts Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète. The work premiered in Paris in 1849, a year of revolution. Another topic, the fraudulent prophet, is familiar to today’s audiences.
ABC Classics uncovers female orgasms in classical music - Slippedisc

Jul 12, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Norman Lebrecht

‘Is is about masturbating while thinking about God?’...
Alastair Macaulay: Sarasota outdances Royal Ballet in Ashton

Jun 5, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Alastair Macaulay

Frederick Ashton, from Sarasota 2024.iv.05by Alastair Macaulay Since choreography presents dance in terms of time and space, its greatest achievements make us feels time and space as never before.
The silence of the Dutch

May 16, 2024 | slippedisc.com | Semyon Bychkov

Amid the fury of thousands of musicians at the Concertgebouw’s cancellation of the Jerusalem Quartet, one institution has gone silent. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO), resident at the hall though independently managed, has uttered not a peep. None of its conductors, managers or musicians has popped up in solidarity with the colleagues the Concertgebouw has excluded. Why not?