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LeedsCelebrity recital: Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff
Gounod, de Polignac, Chausson, Hahn, Fauré, Duparc
Véronique Gens; Susan Manoff
BayreuthVéronique Gens: Passion
Lully, Desmarets, Delalande et Destouches, Collasse, Rebel, Charpentier
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas; Véronique Gens; Ensemble Les Surprises
ParisCastor et Pollux (concert performance)
Rameau: Castor et Pollux
György Vashegyi; Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; Orfeo Orchestra; Purcell Choir; Reinoud Van Mechelen; Tassis Christoyannis
MunichDialogues des Carmélites
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Johannes Debus; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Bavarian State Opera; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Bayerisches Staatsorchester
VersaillesLa Jérusalem délivrée, ou la suite d'Armide (concert performance)
Régent Philippe d'Orléans: La Jérusalem délivrée, ou la suite d'Armide
Leonardo García Alarcón; Opéra royal de Versailles; Cappella Mediterranea; Chœur de chambre de Namur; Marie Lys; Véronique Gens
ParisLa Fille de Madame Angot
Lecocq: La Fille de Madame Angot
Hervé Niquet; Richard Brunel; Opéra Comique; Bruno de Lavenère; Laurent Castaingt; Orchestre de chambre de Paris
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BerlinClaudio Abbado conducts music from “Carmen” at the 1997 New Year’s Eve Concert
Bizet, Rachmaninov, Sarasate, Ravel, de Falla, Brahms
Berliner Philharmoniker; Claudio Abbado; Gil Shaham; Anne Sofie von Otter; Mikhail Pletnev; Véronique Gens
BerlinAntonio Pappano and Véronique Gens
Ravel, Duparc, Mussorgsky, Scriabin
Berliner Philharmoniker; Sir Antonio Pappano; Véronique Gens
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A radiant Werther in Budapest
In their role debuts, Tassis Christoyannis and Véronique Gens make for an incredible pair in this concert performance of Massenet's opera.
Unhappy ever after: Gluck's Armide returns to Paris
Excellent performances and stage direction make a good case for an opera that's on the slow side dramatically.
Scheherazade allures twice over at the Lucerne Festival
Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia give fine performances of works by Rossini, Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Paris 1913 brought to life by Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth
Two works premiered in Paris in 1913 – Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène and Stravinsky The Rite of Spring – excite the Edinburgh International Festival audience... but spark no riots.
La Calisto arrives at La Scala for the first time and triumphs
Cavalli's debut at La Scala is a triumph, earning applause that not even a Bohème or a Traviata can sometimes elicit.
Carthage carnage: Tcherniakov's Trojans flops at the Bastille
Tcherniakov reduces Berlioz' epic to little more than Circle Time therapy, a poor way to mark the composer's anniversary year.