Sweden Monteverdi L’Orfeo. Soloists, Wermland Opera Orchestra, Hans Ek (conductor). Wermland Opera, Karlstad 26.3. 2014
Month: April 2014
Longborough Festival (Nominated for RPS Award) Opera Season Preview
Longborough Festival Opera Nominated for RPS Award Longborough Festival Opera is delighted to announce that its 2013 Ring Cycle has been shortlisted in the Opera and Music Theatre category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. LFO is the first privately owned opera house to have staged a full-length production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle led by conductor … Read more
The Portland Baroque Shines Brightly
Canada Sheidt, Nicolai, Biber, Buxtehude, Weichlein, and Johann Christoph Bach, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Monica Huggett, artistic director and violin, Stephen Stubbs, chitarrone, Harry van der Kamp, bass, Vancouver Playhouse, 11.4.2014.
More Drama Off Stage Than On for Met’s Andrea Chénier
United States Giordano, Andrea Chénier: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), The Metropolitan Opera House, New York. 12.4.14 (RP)
Gergiev’s Colourful, Inspiring Scriabin
United Kingdom Messiaen, Chopin, Scriabin: Daniil Trifonov (piano); London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 12.4.2014 (CC)
Right Music in the Right Place
United States Caldara, Vivaldi: Soloists: Cynthia Roberts (violin), Owen Dalby (violin), Katie Rietman (cello), Simon Martyn-Ellis (Baroque guitar), Clarion Orchestra, Steven Fox (Conductor/Director), Fabbri House, New York, 12.4.2014 (SSM)
With Piano Rarities, Hough Examines Romanticism
United States Schoenberg, Strauss, Wagner, Bruckner, Brahms, Liszt: Stephen Hough (piano), Alice Tully Hall, New York City, 13.4.14 (DA)
A Dark, Sinister Queen of Spades
Switzerland Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, conductor: Jiri Belohlavek, Zurich Opera, Zurich. 11.4.14 (JR)