United Kingdom Britten, Barbican Britten: Phaedra: Richard Alston Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia / Pekka Kuusisto (director), Barbican, London, 9.11.2013 (J’OD)
Month: November 2013
Messiah Just As Handel Would Have Wished It
United Kingdom Handel: Messiah: Elizabeth Drury and Louise Prickett (sopranos), James Armitage and Jeremy Kenyon (altos), Peter Wilman and Alexei Winter (tenors), Julian Rippon and Paul Sheehan (basses), Devon Baroque / Jonathan Watts (director), Persephone Gibbs (leader); The Minster Church of St Andrew, Plymouth. UK 9.11. 2013 (PRB)
‘A Contemporary Hero of British Choral Music’: Bob Chilcott in Conversation with John Quinn
United Kingdom ‘A contemporary hero of British Choral Music’: Bob Chilcott in conversation with John Quinn
Category Five Winds Blow in Whangarei
New Zealand Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Roelofsen, Rameau, Bach, Gershwin, Byrd, Debussy: Category Five [Peter Dykes (oboe), Moira Hurst (clarinet), Simon Brew (saxophone), Mark Cookson (bass clarinet), Oscar Lavën (bassoon)], The Old Library, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, 27.10.2013 [Pse]
Purcell’s The Indian Queen: A Pastiche by Peter Sellars
Spain H. Purcell: The Indian Queen, Orchestra and Chorus Opera Perm (MusicAeterna), Teodor Currentzis (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real, 5.11.2013 (JMI)
Photo: Javier del Real
Petra Lang Distinguishes Herself as Brünnhilde in Geneva
Switzerland Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande /Ingo Metzmacher (conductor), Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva, 7.11.2013. (JPr)
Oke Gives Magnificent Performance in Britten’s Final Opera
United Kingdom Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice (1973): Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North / Richard Farnes (conductor), The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, Salford, 7.11.2013
Opera North Swings into the Sixties with Britten’s Dream
United Kingdom Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960): Sung in English with subtitles. Soloists, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North/ Stuart Stratford (conductor), The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, Salford, 6.11.2013.
Sung in English with subtitles.