Novaya Opera - Moscow | 22 January 2021 |

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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
19 Sep 2020 to 3 Apr 2021
Verdi
20 Sep 2020 to 22 May 2021
Puccini
23 Sep 2020 to 5 Jun 2021
Rimsky-Korsakov
25 Sep 2020 to 19 Mar 2021
Donizetti
30 Sep 2020 to 14 May 2021
Mussorgsky
2 Oct 2020 to 15 May 2021
Puccini
6 Oct 2020 to 17 Mar 2021
Verdi
9 Oct 2020 to 19 May 2021
Verdi
21 Oct 2020 to 26 Mar 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
Bellini
23 Jan 2021
Wagner
24 Jan 2021
Verdi
29 Jan 2021
Bizet
19 to 21 Feb 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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