Novaya Opera - Moscow | 23 April 2021 |

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Il PirataNovaya OperaNo. of reviews: 1 | ![]() |
In Moscow, a rare outing for Bellini’s Il pirata |
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SalomeNovaya OperaNo. of reviews: 1 | ![]() |
A truly sensational Salome at Novaya Opera |
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Prince IgorNovaya OperaLondon ColiseumNo. of reviews: 10 | ![]() |
Jan Latham-Koenig extracts a smooth and burnished sound from the Novaya Opera Orchestra |
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Sumptuous performance of Prince Igor in London |
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The distinctive qualities of the Russian instrumental tradition come across with impressive character |
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Novaya Opera has turned Borodin’s nationalist pageant into a kitsch and tawdry spectacle |
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Sergey Artamonov thrills as Prince Igor, with a beast of a voice |
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Production has too many echoes of Gilbert and Sullivan and Monty Python |
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The direction is roughly hewn |
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Prince Igor at the London Coliseum is magnificent |
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The opera’s dramatic narrative is sacrificed for set-pieces |
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This is an epic delivered with passion and panache |
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Performance schedule
Rossini
11 Aug 2020 to 28 May 2021
Tchaikovsky
8 Sep 2020 to 17 Jun 2021
Borodin
9 Sep 2020 to 20 Jun 2021
Shelygin
13 Sep 2020 to 23 May 2021
Donizetti
16 Sep 2020 to 20 May 2021
Verdi
20 Sep 2020 to 22 May 2021
Puccini
23 Sep 2020 to 5 Jun 2021
Donizetti
30 Sep 2020 to 14 May 2021
Mussorgsky
2 Oct 2020 to 15 May 2021
Verdi
9 Oct 2020 to 19 May 2021
Gounod
12 Nov 2020 to 25 May 2021
Wagner
5 Dec 2020 to 10 Jun 2021
Gounod
9 Dec 2020 to 2 Jun 2021
News & Articles
Operas dominate Novaya's Epiphany Week fest |
For the eighth year in a row, the end of the January holidays will bring with it the beginning of Novaya Opera's Epiphany Week festival, honoring the memory of the theater's founder, Yevgeny Kolobov. |
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Novaya Opera launches 7th Epiphany Week fest |
Novaya Opera is set once again to relieve the post-holiday gloom with its seventh annual Epiphany Week festival, which in fact runs not for a week, but for slightly more than two weeks. |
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Novaya Opera’s ‘Epiphany’ Festival set to start |
The post-holiday musical season gets off to a start this week with the sixth annual festival entitled “Epiphany Week at Novaya Opera.” |
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Touching up the Barbe |
Novaya Opera imports director Elijah Moshinsky to direct a Rossini classic. |
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A feast for opera fans |
Novaya Opera hosts its third annual Epiphany Week festival in honor of its late founder, Yevgeny Kolobov. |
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