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MUSIC REVIEWS: OPERAS, COMPETITIONS, MUSIC FESTIVALS --- and contemporary music crossovers
Contact Anne Ku if you feel a forthcoming concert, festival, competition, or opera is worthy of a personal preview or review.
MAUI
The inspiration of Kealoha, the slam poet of Hawaii
19 April 2011
Thomas Purviance on Franz Liszt
11 April 2011
From entertainment to art: review of Maui Choral Arts
21 March 2011
REVIEW: The Elixir of Love: a one-off production by Maui Pops Orchestra and San Francisco Pocket Opera
23 March 2011 2-page PDF
A one-off opera production in Maui: Elixir of Love
15 March 2011
Maui Choral Arts singers sing on
13 December 2010
AMSTERDAM
Rzewski "Reeds" for Calefax reed quintet
21 March 2010
Holland Festival 2010
13 March 2010
Chinese Opera in Amsterdam
5 February 2010
New Music from China in Amsterdam
25 January 2010
Camenae Collective Octet in Amsterdam
23 December 2009
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in Amsterdam
7 December 2009
Music and Poetry at Dutch Music Days in Amsterdam: Nederlandse Muziekdagen
16 October 2009
Tan Dun's Marco Polo in Amsterdam,
21 November 2008
Messiaen's opera Saint Francis of Assisi in Amsterdam
24 June 2008
Golijov's Passion for St Mark in Amsterdam
23 June 2008
Doctor Atomic, opera by John Adams and Peter Sellars, European premiere in Amsterdam
25 June 2007
UTRECHT
Brendan Kinsella concert in Utrecht, by Emanuel Overbeeke
12 July 2011
Ricciotti Ensemble premieres new opera "Pinocchio in Love" -- ENGLISH
20 July 2010
De premiere van Pinocchio in love van het Ricciotti Ensemble -- DUTCH!
21 July 2010
Review: Glass Vase Concert in Utrecht, Netherlands by Emanuel Overbeeke
4 June 2010
Brautigam premieres new piano concerto of Jacob TV
7 March 2010
Effusion: a cross domain exploration through video and music
17 February 2010
Love Dolls, the play by Duda Paiva
16 February 2010
Four Dutch men win the 8th International Student Piano Competition, Utrecht,
21 October 2008
Loevendie's new operina Babylon in Utrecht
4 November 2007
Queen and the Soldier in Utrecht
20 August 2007
NETHERLANDS: Woerden, den Bosch
In Viaggio with Carla Regina
29 April 2010
National preliminary rounds of the 48th International Vocal Competition in Den Bosch, Netherlands,
6 October 2009
LONDON
Opera for first timers, 20 November 2008
Debussy's Pelleas et Melissande, Independent Opera, Sadler's Wells, London
7 December 2008
Strauss' Elektra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London,
5 December 2008
Four operas in three consecutive days in London (9, 10, 11 October 2008):
Handel's Partenope, Cavalli's La Calisto, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
International Vocal Competition
1 October 2008
Donizetti's Don Pasquale at Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf London
22 August 2008
Cosi Fan Tutte, first production of Situation Opera in London
8 August 2008
Figaro, the Barber of Seville in London
18 July 2008
ITALY
Cortona Contemporary Music Festival: a personal reflection
8 August 2007
BOOK REVIEWS
The real Taiwan and the Dutch, 1 August 2010
Spirit Matters, by Matt Pallamary, 14 December 2008
Change Thrivers: Your Resource Guide for Making Change Work by Afsaneh Noori
10 January 2007
A Man of His Village by Tanyo Ravicz
9 January 2007
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
4 February 2005
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