Follies (Volksoper) - 2025

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"The orchestra under the baton of Michael Papadopoulos drives the performance forward, managing to render both the jazzy elements of the score and its nostalgic, lyrical aspects with elegance and precision"​

Der Standard

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"The orchestra under Michael Papadopoulos is well worth hearing."​

Kurier

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"Michael Papadopoulos provides the show's drive from the podium."​

Kronen Zeitung

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"The orchestra under Michael Papadopoulos accompanied with verve."​

Die Presse

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"The essence, however, lies in the subtle nuances of human interaction - and in the music, which comes together in all its shades under the direction of conductor Michael Papadopoulos"​

Falter

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"The melodies are lively, and the catchy rhythms make the ensemble dance with infectious energy, kicking their legs high, thanks to Michael Papadopoulos at the helm of the rousing Volksoper orchestra."​

Kultur und Wein

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"The huge orchestra plays the difficult score at the highest possible level (musical direction by Michael Papadopoulos)."​

Broadway World

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Acis and Galatea (Opera Holland Park) - 2024

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"Acis and Galatea was a triumph, overseen musically by the young and talented conductor Michael Papadopoulos, encouraging the City of London Sinfonia to markedly stylish playing."

Colin Clarke, Opera Today

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"a breezely, shapely account of the score by Michael Papadopoulos. The City of London Sinfonia...generate some exquisite colours."

Clive Paget, The Guardian

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"Michael Papadopoulos makes a striking Opera Holland Park debut conducting the City of London Sinfonia in sprightly baroque mode"

Claudia Pritchard, Culture Whisperer

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"The City of London Sinfonia is conducted by Michael Papadopoulos who displays an acute sense for the music and conjures the best out of the small ensemble, making the entire opera marvellous to listen to. It's not surprising that the enthusiastic audience bursts into roaring applause at the end - a spectacular execution."

Michael Higgs, Broadway World

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"I did not expect such astonishing accomplishment from a young person still at the beginning of what hopefully will be a splendid career...Papadopoulos is also capable of producing utmost beauty without sentimentality."

Agnes Kory, Seen and Heard International

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Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire (Royal Opera House) - 2022

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"All that is brilliantly supported by five instrumentalists from the Britten Sinfonia, immaculately conducted by Michael Papadopoulos."​

Richard Morrison, The Times

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"Alexandra Lowe gave a serious star-is-born performance as Pierrot, sending her elegant, sensuous soprano skittering, rasping and swooning over the shot-silk sonorities that flickered up from the Britten Sinfonia and Michael Papadopoulos in the pit. The audience, naturally enough, exploded."

Richard Bratby, The Spectator​​​

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"It was an amazing display, cooly controlled by Michael Papadopoulos."​

Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph

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"Michael Papadopoulos's conducting of the excellent Britten Sinfonia is also highly impressive"

Sam Smith, Opera Online

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"Michael Papadopoulos conducted with a sure hand, and the reduced forces of the Britten Sinfonia responded with perfectly judged playing."

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"[Soprano Alexandra Lowe] was supported throughout by Papadopoulos' faultless conducting"

Keith McDonnell, MusicOMH

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"Musically it's immaculately controlled"

Michael Church, inews

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"Papadopoulos's conducting in Mavra is crisp...the Britten Sinfonia play wonderfully well for him."

Tim Ashley, The Guardian

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Seven Deadly Sins/Mahagonny Songspiel (Royal Opera House) - 2022

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"Under Michael Papadopoulos a virtuoso contingent from the ROH Orchestra injected a sense of apocalyptic terror into one of Weill's finest scores."​

Richard Morrison, The Times

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"The score...is superbly delivered."​

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"Having lost track of the plot, [I] focused my admiration on conductor Michael Papadopoulos's flawless account (with members of the ROH orchestra) of Weill's divinely decadent score."

Mark Valencia, Bachtrack

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"All this stimulates the mind, but it touches the heart too because the singers and wonderful ROH orchestra under Michael Papadopoulos reveal the tender warmth beneath the brittle sarcasm of Weill's score."​

Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph

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"Conductor Michael Papadopoulos gets high energy playing out of his stripped-down Royal Opera ensemble"

Richard Fairman, Financial Times

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"[Michael Papadopoulos and the players of the ROH orchestra] did justice to Weill's fragmented lyricism, dissonances and rhythmic angularity.""​

Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard International

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"...with conductor Michael Papadopoulos keeping Weill's popular dance rhythms bouncing provocatively along."​

George Hall, The Stage

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"Wake-Edwards dares us to look away as she bares all musically, egged on by conductor Michael Papadopoulos."​

Alexandra Coghlan, The Independent

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Dido and Aeneas (Ustinov Studio) - 2022

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"Michael Papadopoulos directs a really stylish quartet of strings from the harpsichord - their raw, rhetorical attack almost an assault in this confined space."

Alexandra Coghlan, The Telegraph

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"Upping the intensity from the harpsichord, placed at the back of the stage, is the musical director Michael Papadopoulos, whose four string players (on modern instruments, with little vibrato) are full of expressive power."

Rebecca Franks, The Times

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Jette Parker Summer Performance (Royal Opera House) - 2021

 

​​"JPYA conductor Michael Papadopoulos led a confident account of the Donizetti, beautifully following the ebb and flow of the score."​

Kevin Ng, Bachtrack

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