Primi Divi

• Primi Divi Awards 2009 From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (2 days old)

  BEST NEW PRODUCTION Flight (British Youth Opera) BEST REVIVAL Il barbiere di Sivuglia (ROH) BEST CONCERT/SEMI-STAGED PERFORMANCE Falstaff (Pimlico Opera at Cadogan Hall) BEST CONDUCTOR Ch… more

• Review: ARIODANTE*** From FitCrit in Primi Divi (12 days old)

  English Touring Opera at the Royal College of Music Handel and the Premier League are 2 of my favourite things in the world but that doesn’t mean they go together. Jonathan Peter Kenny conducted … more

• Review: FLAVIO***** From BarryTone in Primi Divi (15 days old)

  English Touring Opera at the Royal College of Music English Touring Opera have, quite rightly, acquired an excellent reputation for their productions of Handel operas. Following highly successful a… more

• Review: LETTERS FROM A LOVE BETRAYED** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (19 days old)

  Music Theatre Wales at the Linbury Studio In some ways, Letters from a Love Betrayed reminded me of a sort of reverse whodunit. It is certainly not a whodunit in a conventional sense – although som… more

• Review: BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA*** From Violetta in Primi Divi (22 days old)

  BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican This concert, was one, of many concerts, in a cycle, in celebration, of the composer, Martinu. My reasons, for attendance, were, however, not the composer in … more

• Review: LE PESCATRICI*** From MadamCaterpillar in Primi Divi (26 days old)

  Bampton Classical Opera at St John’s Smith Square This is an opera I don’t know anything about at all but even Barry hadn’t heard it before. You might even say I know the opera just as well as the … more

• Review: LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX*** From FitCrit in Primi Divi (32 days old)

  Royal Opera House Slushy bel canto isn’t usually my thing and in lots of ways Linda di Chamounix was just like the others. Two lovers, they get separated, girl goes mad. Nothing I hadn’t seen befor… more

• Review: Il Signor Bruschino/La scala di seta***/**** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (40 days old)

  British Youth Opera at the Peacock Theatre It’s not often now we get to see an opera none of us have seen before. Particularly not four in the space of two weeks. But this is exactly how the new op… more

• Primi Divi Award Nominations: 2009-10 Season From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (54 days old)

  BEST NEW PRODUCTION Dr Atomic (ENO) Flight (British Youth Opera) Pagliacci (ENO) Partenope (ENO) Varjak Paw (The Opera Group at the Linbury Studio, ROH) BEST REVIVAL Il barbiere di Sivuglia (… more

• Review: GREASE***** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (61 days old)

  Piccadilly Theatre August 2009 (2 performances) I’ve seen Grease twice since I reviewed it last so I thought I should review it again. I saw loads of people performing roles for the first time (… more

• Review: The Proms (Week Six) From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (75 days old)

  Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall Don’t worry, Violetta fans. Violetta will be reviewing a week of the Proms – but she asked especially for the Last Night, so she’ll be reviewing the final eight d… more

• BBC Proms Widget From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (82 days old)

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• Review: The Proms (Week Five) From MadamCaterpillar in Primi Divi (82 days old)

  Royal Albert Hall/Cadogan Hall Prom 40 – Beethoven’s Ninth is one of those pieces of music that’s played every year, except when the hall catches fire. It’s quite a good choice to be an annual even… more

• Review: The Proms, week Three From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (90 days old)

  Royal Albert Hall/Cadogan HallBY SOPHIE The others said I had to review this one because Prom 22 is all about musicals. It’s called A Celebration of MGM Film Musicals and because I go to musicals m… more

• The Proms (Week Two)*** From HairyMcMungo in Primi Divi (97 days old)

  Royal Albert Hall/Cadogan Hall Hairy McMungo will be reviewing Week Two of the Proms. He chose Week Two as his psychic instincts told him this would be the best. Also he chose it because the week i… more

• Review: The Proms (Week One( From BarryTone in Primi Divi (110 days old)

  Royal Albert Hall/Cadogan Hall London’s season of Promenade Concerts has long been, for me, a matter of eager anticipation. It offers the opportunity not only to see some of the greatest singers an… more

• (P)REVIEW: IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA From HairyMcMungo in Primi Divi (130 days old)

  Royal Opera House It’s a rare moment of peace and quiet for Hairy McMungo with Caledonia going to a party after nursery and wee Imogen fast asleep. Hairy predicts she won’t wake up for thirty-one m… more

• Review: GREASE (Act 1) From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (144 days old)

  Piccadilly Theatre June 2009 this is sophie here again, hi There were a number of absentees from this performance. There were so many understudies performing, I might not have remembered them… more

• Review: MAMMA MIA!*** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (146 days old)

  Prince of Wales Theatre this review is by Sophie and I think i should be a co writer and i also think Cunning little vixen should change her password coz i know what it is now Mamma Mia! is a re… more

• Review: COSI FAN TUTTE*** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (152 days old)

  English National Opera 19th June 2009 I love Mozart’s operas, but Cosi fan tutte has a disappointing habit of boring me to death. It’s difficult to know why – those who have claimed it’s musical… more

• BBC CARDIFF SINGER OF THE WORLD FINAL 2009 From FitCrit in Primi Divi (158 days old)

  I don’t know the result of this. I know who I think won it but I stopped watching before the result and recorded that bit. So I can’t go to the Singer of the World site for the aria titles because I k… more

• BBC CARDIFF SINGER OF THE WORLD From FitCrit in Primi Divi (160 days old)

  I was going to watch this on BBC4 but the first episode was so bad I switched off pretty quick and watched the video clips on the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World website instead. At least you could he… more

• PREVIEW: ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 2009-10 Part 1 From FitCrit in Primi Divi (166 days old)

  Yeah ok I’m bunking off my revision again (or dogging my revision as the Scots say but that sounds a bit dodgy to me) but actually this is kind of like revision because it’s writing which is English a… more

• Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA**** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (173 days old)

  by Sophie, guest blogger, more regular than the oficial bloggers atm tho! Her Majesty’s Theatre I saw this once ages ago and I thought it was so boring. Then I saw it again last week and I loved… more

• Review: GREASE**** (the new cast May 09) From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (181 days old)

  Piccadilly Theatre (by Sophie not Cunning Little Vixen, Sophie) edit oh and read this review here by amanda, i dont agree with it all but its a good review with lots of stuff I forgot to mention… more

• Preview: GREASE From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (184 days old)

  Piccadilly Theatre this is by Sophie, it's in Cunning Little Vixen's account and previews are usually Hairy's thing but its still Sophie I promise Grease has got a new cast. I’m really annoyed. … more

• Review: NORMA**** From FitCrit in Primi Divi (187 days old)

  English Touring Opera at the Cadogan Hall 27th April 2009 The first thing that happened in this opera was that James Conway came onto the stage and did a speech which he said he hoped wouldn’t g… more

• Step In to BBC Radio 3 From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (191 days old)

  Be the first to listen, download & explore BBC Radio 3's Composers of the Year content with their brand new "Step In" badge; Listen to music extracts of four great classical composers: Pur… more

• Review: ACIS AND GALATEA*** From CunningLittleVixen in Primi Divi (194 days old)

  Royal Opera April 2009 Acis and Galatea was performed as the second in a double bill with Dido and Aeneas. Dido has been brilliantly reviewed by Barry, so do go along and read his comments. I’m … more

• Review: DIDO AND AENEAS**** From BarryTone in Primi Divi (201 days old)

  Royal Opera April 2009 Dido and Aeneas was presented at the Royal Opera house as the first of a double bill with Acis and Galatea. This second opera will be reviewed by another of the Primi Div… more

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