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Trafalgar Releasing has acquired worldwide theatrical rights from Lionsgate to distribute Andrea Bocelli: Because I Beli...
10/07/2025

Trafalgar Releasing has acquired worldwide theatrical rights from Lionsgate to distribute Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe to cinemas around the world from September 21, 2025

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‘Musically there’s plenty to enjoy even if both casts proved uneven’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️✍🏻Mark PullingerFull review online!
10/07/2025

‘Musically there’s plenty to enjoy even if both casts proved uneven’

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✍🏻Mark Pullinger

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09/07/2025

'Ogilvie’s vision is far from a benign one'
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✍️Alexandra Coghlan
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Over 600 young performers from Waltham Forest came together to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s Carmen, in a s...
07/07/2025

Over 600 young performers from Waltham Forest came together to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s Carmen, in a special production titled ‘This Is Carmen’⭐️

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'The conclusion from this absorbing and enjoyable production might nonetheless be that Beethoven’s vision is best served...
03/07/2025

'The conclusion from this absorbing and enjoyable production might nonetheless be that Beethoven’s vision is best served undiluted — either as a period-piece…albeit with bags of imagination…or in an entirely updated production.'
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✍️Andrew Green
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What, then, of approaches to staging Fidelio, given its all too authentic depiction of a dimension of early 19th-century life under despotic, dysfunctional power structures…

'The cast is huge and the ensembles were zingy in this revival under conductor Michele Spotti, whipping up the orchestra...
27/06/2025

'The cast is huge and the ensembles were zingy in this revival under conductor Michele Spotti, whipping up the orchestral froth in the pit.'
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✍️Mark Pullinger
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Barrie Kosky gets that Offenbach’s 'Les Brigands' was a vicious social satire on the Second Empire, a year before its fall

'Even without the best tunes, this Faust was very much the devil’s show'⭐⭐⭐⭐✍️Mark PullingerFull review:
26/06/2025

'Even without the best tunes, this Faust was very much the devil’s show'
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✍️Mark Pullinger
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Opéra de Lille, in a co-production with the Opéra-Comique and Bru Zane, brings the 1859 version back to Paris

'The profoundly disturbing subject matter is ingeniously handled by director Cordula Däuper'⭐⭐⭐⭐✍️Mark PullingerFull rev...
23/06/2025

'The profoundly disturbing subject matter is ingeniously handled by director Cordula Däuper'
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✍️Mark Pullinger
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Voice Killer is the operatic equivalent of a true crime docudrama

'It was a jaw-dropping piece of singing, affirmed by a roaring audience. Yes, definitely spinto enough!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✍️Mark Pull...
23/06/2025

'It was a jaw-dropping piece of singing, affirmed by a roaring audience. Yes, definitely spinto enough!'
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✍️Mark Pullinger
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Netrebko’s soprano has the ideal colour and weight for Lisa

'Where Mozart and Da Ponte explore class dynamics, the servants getting one over on the aristocracy, de Beer explores po...
19/06/2025

'Where Mozart and Da Ponte explore class dynamics, the servants getting one over on the aristocracy, de Beer explores power and s*x, focusing on the repression of women'

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✍️Mark Pullinger

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De Beer’s staging is overstuffed with ideas, most of which should have been scrapped at the drawing board stage of development

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