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Béatrice et Bénédict


Reviews (5)


MusicWeb international

2017 August

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Ian Lace

2017 August

"This Glyndebourne production is novel and imaginative ... Stéphanie d'Oustrac's Béatrice is superb: a wild virago spitting defiance and venom at Bénédict who gives as good as he gets ... Impressive, too, is Sophie Karthàuser's Héro ... A very worthwhile production of a comic opera that is seldom performed and little known except for its overture".


BBC music magazine

2017 September

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Christopher Cook (musikanmelder)

2017 September

"BBC music opera choice: This is Pellyland, a deeply satisfying comic world with its own style conjured up for Glyndebourne by one of the most assured opera directors at work today ... The LPO rise magnificently to the challenge of Berlioz's vibrant orchestration and daring harmonies ... d'Oustrac is a perfect Béatrice, a comic actress with impeccable timing who relishes every word ... Appleby's Bénédict is much more than the bluff soldier".


Klassisk

2017, nr. 47

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Steen Chr. Steensen

2017, nr. 47

""Béatrice et Bénedict" er en komisk opera, men sådan som Laurent Pelly fremstiller den, bliver det komiske suppleret med en vemod og distance, der også ligger gemt i musikken, og det er denne opsætnings store styrke".


Fono Forum

2017 September

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Manuel Brug

2017 September

"Die erste Visualisierung von Berlioz' selten zu sehender Shakespeare-Komödie. Eine kleine, feine Oper. Nicht weltbewegend, aber witzig und anrühend ... Antonello Manacorda untermalt die lyrischen, komplex gestrickten Ensembleszenen ... spritzig. Stéphanie d'Oustrac gibt die Béatrice als spätes, noch ziemlich saftiges Mädchen. Paul Appleby ist ein gar nicht so schroffer Anti-Galan Bénédict ... Komödienspezialist Laurent Pelly bringt das lockere Gewebe zum Schweben".


The gramophone

2017 August

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Mike Ashman

2017 August

"Such sweetness and neatness, a classical ballet of movement and placing, requires the hardest work and drill from cast and production team. And that is fully achieved here ... Manacorda is a natural-sounding guide to the stage events shown here ... Stéphanie D'Oustrac and Paul Appleby spar well ... The only official DVD to date of such an important opera, well recorded and filmed in a slick modern production, deserves a place in the catalogue and on your shelves".