Swan Lake, American Ballet Theater, March 2009
Posted on 30 March 2009Irina Dvorovenko was a lovely Odette-Odile, alternating well between a sublime white swan, and her seductive black counterpart in Act III.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Macbeth, by Ernest Bloch, University College Opera, March 2009
Posted on 26 March 2009Altogether this was well worth seeing, and I applaud University College Opera for putting it on.
La Sonnambula, live cinema screening from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, March 2009
Posted on 22 March 2009With Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez as the lovers Amina and Elvino, this promised to be a superb performance and it was.
Madama Butterfly, live relay, Metropolitan Opera, New York, March 2009
Posted on 8 March 2009This production by the late Anthony Minghella — perhaps the best Butterfly I’ve ever seen … portrayed the child as a puppet, which worked extremely well …