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| Saturday 4-Jan-14 10:30am |
 LSO St Lukes, LondonLSO Discovery Singing Day |
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| LSO St Lukes, London, 161 Old Street, London EC1V 9NG, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Jan-14 10:30am LSO Discovery Singing Day A singing workshop on Haydn’s Creation followed by an informal performance which friends and family can watch. Some singing ability is required.Tickets £17 (includes music hire).Session lasts from 10:30am - 4:30pm. | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 01:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY The Magic Flute |
The Magic Flute (Mozart) (abridged holiday version for families)  Metropolitan Opera Jane Glover, Conductor Julie Taymor, Director Heidi Stober, Soprano: Pamina Kathryn Lewek, Soprano: Queen of the Night Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Nathan Gunn, Baritone: Papageno Eric Owens, Bass: Sarastro |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 4-Jan-14 01:00pm The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), K620 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)) (abridged holiday version for families) Jane Glover, Conductor Julie Taymor, Director Heidi Stober, Soprano: Pamina Kathryn Lewek, Soprano: Queen of the Night Alek Shrader, Tenor: Tamino Nathan Gunn, Baritone: Papageno Eric Owens, Bass: Sarastro | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 03:00pm |
Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset): Stora Salen Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Bernstein |
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| Stockholm Concert Hall (Konserthuset): Stora Salen, Hötorget 8, Stockholm 10387, Sweden Saturday 4-Jan-14 03:00pm Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Bernstein Image credit: Jan-Olav Wedin | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Eugene Onegin |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Krzysztof Warlikowski, Director Malgorzata Szczęśniak, Set Designer Kristine Opolais, Soprano: Tatyana Larissa Diadkova, Mezzo-soprano: Philippyevna Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Edgaras Montvidas, Tenor: Lensky Artur Rucinski, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Kevin Conners, Tenor: Monsieur Triquet Rafal Siwek, Bass: Prince Gremin |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm The story of a cosmopolitan, educated, yet excessively arrogant outsider. He antagonizes the women who love and desire him, just as he does his friend, whom he ultimately kills in a duel. Is it Onegin’s longing to see himself always reflected in others? Is it his inability to adjust socially? The answer for him and the people with whom he comes into contact is bitter. Its name: solitude. Tchaikovsky’s “Lyrical Scenes” subtitled Eugene Onegin ranks among the greatest, most beautiful and most frequently performed Russian operas.
In Russian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Krzysztof Warlikowski, Director Malgorzata Szczęśniak, Set Designer Kristine Opolais, Soprano: Tatyana Larissa Diadkova, Mezzo-soprano: Philippyevna Yekaterina Sergeyeva, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Edgaras Montvidas, Tenor: Lensky Artur Rucinski, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Kevin Conners, Tenor: Monsieur Triquet Rafal Siwek, Bass: Prince Gremin | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm |
Grieg Hall (Grieghallen), Bergen Bergens Tidende Concert: New Year |
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| Grieg Hall (Grieghallen), Bergen, Edvard Griegs plass 1, Bergen 5015, Norway Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm Bergens Tidende Concert: New Year It’s not really a New Year until the corks are popped at the Bergens Tidende concert. Newspaper readers help to choose the program, which features old favorites, gifted soloists and as always, element of surprise. | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Romeo und Julia |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm Romeo und Julia Running time 2 hours 20 minutes. Ticckets 198 - 32 CHF. | ||
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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Carmen |
Royal Opera Daniel Oren, Conductor Francesca Zambello, Director Christine Rice, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Yonghoon Lee, Tenor: Don José Kostas Smoriginas, Baritone: Escamillo Sarah Fox, Soprano: Micaela |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:00pm Daniel Oren, Conductor Francesca Zambello, Director Christine Rice, Mezzo-soprano: Carmen Yonghoon Lee, Tenor: Don José Kostas Smoriginas, Baritone: Escamillo Sarah Fox, Soprano: Micaela | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris The Sleeping Beauty |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm The Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty Music by Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893) Original choreography by Marius Petipa Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev The “Ballet of ballets,” Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. Virtuosity together with sumptuous sets and costumes recreate the splendour of one of the most brilliant masterpieces in the classical repertoire. | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris) The Bolshoi Ballet - Illusions Perdues |
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| Palais Garnier (Opéra de Paris), 75009 Paris, France Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm The Bolshoi Ballet - Illusions Perdues The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet presents Lost Illusions, a creation by Alexei Ratmansky, based on the novel by Balzac. The choreographer’s neoclassical language stands out in a great narrative ballet with a French flavour. This is a grand story of thwarted love, ambition and disillusionment in which the dancers reveal their talents and the choreographer, another facet of his work. | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin Onegin - John Cranko |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm Onegin - John Cranko ONEGIN is an emotionally charged tale of love and rejection. The young and provincial Tatiana is captivated by the sophisticated, brooding stranger Onegin. She writes him a letter confessing her love, but Onegin rejects her and to prove his indifference, flirts with her sister Olga. Lensky, Olga’s fiancé and Onegin’s best friend is offended by this so that he challenges Onegin to a duel, where Onegin kills him. Several years later Onegin and Tatiana meet again...
The famous choreographer John Cranko created this touching ballet, in which several steamy virtuoso duets show the emotional development of the protagonists. Pushkin’s verse novel, used by Tchaikovsky for his opera EUGENE ONEGIN in 1879, is also the source for John Cranko’s ballet, although not a single note of the dance score is taken from the opera, but from other Tchaikovsky musical scores. Image credit: Enrico Nawrath / Staatsballett Berlin | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm |
ZKO Haus, Zürich Opera Box: La Vie Parisienne |
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| ZKO Haus, Zürich, Seefeldstrasse 305, Zürich, Switzerland Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm Opera Box: La Vie Parisienne Tickets: CHF 68 / 58 / 48 | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Eglise, Chateau d'Oex Last night of the New Year Music Festival in Gstaad, Lauenen, Rougemont & Chateau d'Oex |
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| Eglise, Chateau d'Oex, Route des Chenolettes 11, Chateau d'Oex 1660, Switzerland Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm Last night of the New Year Music Festival in Gstaad, Lauenen, Rougemont & Chateau d'Oex | ||
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Deutsche Oper, Berlin Falstaff |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Donald Runnicles, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer Barbara Haveman, Soprano: Alice Ford Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Nannetta Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Dana Beth Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Mistress Quickly Gideon Poppe, Tenor: Bardolph Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Dr Caius Joel Prieto, Tenor: Fenton Michael Nagy, Baritone: Ford Markus Brück, Baritone: Sir John Falstaff Marko Mimica, Bass: Pistol |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Saturday 4-Jan-14 07:30pm In Italian language with German surtitles.
Just as Shakespeare's comedies never get bogged down in tattiness but always explore the sadness and loneliness behind the mask of tomfoolery, so too is Verdi's late work, FALSTAFF, much more than a light-hearted run-around. Basing his FALSTAFF on the Bard's “Merry Wives of Windsor” and “Henry IV”, Verdi created one of the quirkiest scores of the 19th century, one that takes the theatre itself as the central theme of the piece. Society repeatedly equates a Falstaff encounter with an open season for lies and masquerades. The story presents us with a pretend rendezvous, a husband disguised as a spy and a collective ghost staged in a park at night. Falstaff is the individualistic outsider stirring up the comfortable status quo with his otherness and inducing the bourgeoisie to act, to produce theatre, to be anarchical. Verdi penned FALSTAFF around the time that he was setting up his “Casa Verdi” home for retired musicians in Milan. The opera is at once a testimony to the youthfulness and experience of a composer shortly before his 80th birthday. The work deals with the ageing process and touches on issues such as loneliness and depression. Ever present, however, is the spirit of the closing fugue: “Tutto nel mondo è burla. / Everything in the world is but a joke.” In the wake of Janácek's JENUFA in 2012, director Christof Loy and General Music Director Donald Runnicles have now chosen FALSTAFF as the work with which to continue their successful collaboration at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Image credit: Agentur Donald Runnicles, Conductor Christof Loy, Director Johannes Leiacker, Set Designer Barbara Haveman, Soprano: Alice Ford Elena Tsallagova, Soprano: Nannetta Jana Kurucová, Mezzo-soprano: Meg Page Dana Beth Miller, Mezzo-soprano: Mistress Quickly Gideon Poppe, Tenor: Bardolph Thomas Blondelle, Tenor: Dr Caius Joel Prieto, Tenor: Fenton Michael Nagy, Baritone: Ford Markus Brück, Baritone: Sir John Falstaff Marko Mimica, Bass: Pistol | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Die Fledermaus |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 4-Jan-14 08:00pm | ||
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The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD Sounds of Central Europe |
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| The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD, North Bethesda, MD, United States Saturday 4-Jan-14 08:00pm Sounds of Central Europe | ||
| Saturday 4-Jan-14 08:15pm |
Flagey: Studio 4, Brussels Happy New Year! |
Humperdinck, Hänsel and Gretel (Prelude) Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker Suite: excerpts (Pas de Deux, Coda, Final Waltz) Strauss R., Der Rosenkavalier (arr. Doebber) |
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| Flagey: Studio 4, Brussels, Place Saint-Croix / Heilig Kruisplein, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Saturday 4-Jan-14 08:15pm Happy New Year! Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893), Nutcracker Suite: excerpts (Pas de Deux, Coda, Final Waltz) Strauss, Richard (1864-1949), Der Rosenkavalier, Op.59 (arr. Doebber) | ||
