ENO’s Triumphant Akhnaten Revival Shrouds Audiences in Minimalism and Provides Balm
13/02/2019
Glass, Akhnaten (performed in Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebrew and English): Soloists, Gandini Juggling Company, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Karen Kamensek (conductor), London Coliseum, 11.2.2019. (CC)

Anthony Roth Costanza (Akhnaten) © Jane Hobson.
World Premiere of Casablancas’s Intriguing L’enigma di Lea at the Liceu
12/02/2019
Benet Casablancas, L’enigma di Lea: Liceu Chorus and Orchestra / Josep Pons (conductor), Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 10.2.2019. (JMI)

Liceu’s L’enigma di Lea © A. Bofill
An Uneven Presentation of Verdi’s Rarely Heard I masnadieri in Valencia
11/02/2019
Verdi, I masnadieri: Generalitat Valenciana Chorus, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra / Roberto Abbado (conductor), Palau de les Arts, Valencia, 9.2.2019. (JMI)

I masnadieri © M. Lorenzo & M. Ponce
A Superb Cast, Led by Amanda Majeski, for the Royal Opera’s Katya Kabanova
11/02/2019
Janáček – Katya Kabanova: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 9.2.2019. (MB)

Susan Bickley (Kabanicha) & Amanda Majeski (Katya) (c) ROH/Clive Barda
Opera Warwick’s Entertaining La vie Parisienne Was Full of Ingenious Ideas
10/02/2019
Offenbach, La vie Parisienne: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Warwick / Laurie Duncan (conductor). Warwick Arts Centre Theatre, Coventry, 7.1.2019. (RD)

Gabrielle (Naomi Awre) in Opera Warwick’s La vie Parisienne
(c) Gabrielė Stravinskaitė
A Blood-Drenched Elektra in Chicago
08/02/2019
R. Strauss, Elektra: Soloists, Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago / Donald Runnicles (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago. 2.2.2019. (JLZ)

Nina Stemme as Elektra at Lyric Opera of Chicago (c) Cory Weaver
Smart and Lean Grand Macabre Makes the Case for Ligeti in Zurich
07/02/2019
Ligeti, Le Grand Macabre: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Tito Ceccherini (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 3.2.2019. (CCr)

Zurich Opera’s Le Grand Macabre (c) Herwig Prammer
Memorable Singing as Paris Opéra Stages Carsen’s Rusalka
05/02/2019
Dvořák, Rusalka: Soloists, Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: Alessandro di Stefano), Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). Opéra Bastille, Paris, 29.1.2019. (MB)

Paris Opéra’s Rusalka (c) Guergana Damianova/Opéra national de Paris