The Ups and Downs of the Aix-en-Provence Festival
Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing.
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Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing.
With a repertoire of over thirty roles, and appearing at houses and festivals from Glyndebourne to Stuttgart to Stockholm, the Swedish mezzo-soprano is already highly accomplished.
NI Opera’s excellent new Verdi production went straight to the heart, while Royal Opera’s Strauss revival failed to ignite. Plus, the next star Kanneh-Mason…
Alexander Soddy made an auspicious Royal Opera debut with his wonderful conducting of this revival of David McVicar’s staging: a tragedy of horrifying power
The striptease is all Strauss’s in the Bergen Philharmonic’s expertly revealing Salome. Plus, the new-ish Takács Quartet, a theorbo moment and a sock-throwing night at the opera