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Category: Ballet

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  Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House *****

  Death in Venice Royal Opera House, 3rd December 2019 Fresh from the superlative semi-staged version of Peter Grimes from Ed Gardner, the Bergen PO and assorted chums and straight into this. A top drawer new version of Death in Venice from David McVicar. I have fond memories of seeing Deborah…

  January 26, 2020
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  Natalia Goncharova exhibition at Tate Modern review *****

  Natalia Goncharova Tate Modern, 26th August 2019 Right cards on the table. If I don’t start getting a move on I am never going to catch up in terms of documenting my cultural adventures on this blog, Which would render it even more pointless and too much of a chore.…

  October 11, 2019
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  English Chamber Orchestra at Cadogan Hall review *****

  English Chamber Orchestra, Jessica Cottis (conductor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Ben Goldscheider (horn) Cadogan Hall, 16th March 2019 Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31 Purcell/Britten – Suite of Six Songs from Orpheus Britannicus Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite I love Britten’s Serenade, first…

  April 3, 2019
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  English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells review ***

  English National Ballet Sadler’s Wells, 26th March 2017 So there I am sitting at a performance of Steve Reich classics a few months ago. In front of me is some twenty something with an open tablet nodding his head up and down like he’s listening to Metallica. Utter p*ick. Anyway once…

  April 1, 2017