| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 9-Feb-2013 Oslo Opera House, Main Stage | Pappano returns home: The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Oslo |
 Little-known fact no. 1: Antonio Pappano made his conducting debut at the Norwegian National Opera, conducting La Bohème in 1987.
Little-known fact no. 2: Antonio Pappano was music director of the Norwegian National Opera in the early 90s.
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| 14-Oct-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Out of the pit and into the Alps with the MET Orchestra |
 The orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House rarely gets out of its pit, but when it does, it plays at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie has a rather different acoustic to the Met – much more closely-held, much more intense – and its unforgiving glare occasionally presented one challenge too many for the MET Orchestra. Still, they acquitted themselves well in this matinée.
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| 29-Sep-2012 Bridgewater Hall | BBC Philharmonic and Juanjo Mena: Wagner Evening |
 Juanjo Mena launched the BBC Philharmonic’s season with an all-Wagner programme which, despite some small faults, featured some excellent playing.
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| 4-Aug-2012 Großes Festspielhaus | Mariss Jansons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Salzburg |
 Strauss’ Don Juan has a long tradition as one of the Vienna Philharmonic’s more dazzling curtain-openers but a recent tendency, even with Gustavo Dudamel, who conducted this work with the orchestra last autumn, has been for more subdued accounts which downplay the brilliance and virtuosity of the orchestral writing.Read full review... | |
