Tag Archives: cinema

Nixon in China, Metropolitan Opera live relay, cinema, February 2011

Posted on 13 February 2011

Peter Sellars exuded enthusiasm from his toes to the end of his extraordinary hair-do, extolling Adams’s music and saying “it builds and has tension . . . rather like Mozart”.

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Giselle, Royal Ballet, live relay from Covent Garden, January 2011

Posted on 20 January 2011

This two-act ballet creates a wonderful dichotomy between daylight and night-time. Act I is set in the everyday world, but the second act takes place in world of the wilis, spirits of dead maidens who rise up and destroy any young man they encounter.

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