Month: February 2014

The Royal Albert Hall hosts an unusual production of La Bohème over the coming week.  Directed by Francesca Zambello, Giacomo Puccini’s passionate but tragic story of doomed love – originally set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s – moves on 100 years, taking place in wartime Paris in this revival of Zambello’s…

New York City Ballet’s extraordinarily varied Winter Season draws to a close this week, and there’s still time (just!) to catch some of the most interesting and creative works from the Company’s vast repertoire. À la Francaise is devoted to ballets choreographed to the music of French composers.  The first of these is by Liam…

Oh to be in Los Angeles towards the end of February – when Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Phil are joined at Walt Disney Concert Hall by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and by violinist Alina Pogostkina and cellist Alisa Weilerstein – for a 10-day TchaikovskyFest! This exciting collaboration gets underway with a…

On Saturday, February 8th, the Metropolitan Opera in New York presents Antonín Dvořák’s most famous opera, Rusalka, featuring soprano Renée Fleming in one of her signature roles.  On this occasion, the enjoyment of the performance will not be limited to the audience at the Met, for the production is being screened in cinemas around the…