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  • This is by way of a prelude to accounting for the manic excitement which preceded the Philharmonia's semi-staged Tristan und Isolde, which finally reached the UK five years after Peter Sellars's production was premiered in Paris.

    Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • The work was "semi-staged" by Sam Helfrich on a platform with two music stands, and it was up to bass Matt Boehler and tenor Jason Papowitz to use just their faces and voices to evoke Franz Kafka's gruesome tale of an execution.

    Waging Underclass Warfare Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Here, in this "semi-staged" performance, Coco is played by Olivier award-winner Sara Kestelman.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • The Encore! series that presents semi-staged versions of classic and often underappreciated musicals has produced many important revivals, including the remarkably successful revival of "Chicago" in 1996 that moved to Broadway and continues to run.

    Michael Kaiser: City Center: A Remarkable History Michael Kaiser 2011

  • The upcoming season sees both a West Coast tour and another Carnegie Hall appearance -- the orchestra's fourth since Alsop took over -- with a semi-staged version of Honegger's "Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher," a Joan of Arc oratorio that's a centerpiece of this year's "woman" theme, coinciding with the 600th anniversary of Joan's birth in 2012.

    BSO does strong woman number in 2011-12 2011

  • WATERFORD CONCERT SERIES, "The Magic of Singing," semi-staged scenes from operettas and musicals, performed by members of the Maryland Opera Studio. 4 p.m.,

    Loudoun County community calendar, Nov. 4-11, 2010 Post 2010

  • Thus Marin Alsop took the podium for a semi-staged "Magic Flute," performed with an energetic narrator in lieu of the spoken dialogue, and featuring - in another community-building move - several members and alumni of Washington National Opera's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program.

    Marin Alsop leads Baltimore Symphony's 'Magic Flute' concert 2011

  • Meanwhile, the Center Theater Group will initiate their latest attempt at a works-in-development festival at the Kirk Douglas under the moniker “Douglas Plus” featuring a number of different semi-staged works and readings at different points of development from the likes of Mike Daisey, Michael Sargent and Matt Sax.

    In the Wings - March 2009

  • The Encore! series that presents semi-staged versions of classic and often underappreciated musicals has produced many important revivals, including the remarkably successful revival of "Chicago" in 1996 that moved to Broadway and continues to run.

    Michael Kaiser: City Center: A Remarkable History Michael Kaiser 2011

  • The acting was so good and the directing so sophisticated that the absence of sets and costumes was never really missed in the Washington Concert Opera's semi-staged production of Rossini's "La Cenerentola" at Lisner Auditorium on Sunday.

    In performance: WCO's "Cenerentola" 2010

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