United States Gregory Spears, Fellow Travelers: Soloists, Chorus, Lyric Opera of Chicago / Daniela Candillari (conductor), Athenaeum Theater, Chicago. 17.3.2018. (JLZ)
Fellow Travelers Dramatizes the McCarthy Era
Month: March 2018
Love is in the Air – Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
United States Van der Aa, Rachmaninoff: Janine Jansen (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York, 13.3.2018. (RP)
Music of Our Time Championed Again by Ensemble Intercontemporain
United Kingdom Birtwistle, Carter, Holliger, Cage, Ubaldini: Ensemble Intercontemporain (Sophie Cherrier [flute]; Martin Adámek [clarinet]; Jens McNamara [horn]; Didier Pateau [oboe]; Paul Riveaux [bassoon]), Wigmore Hall, London, 19.3.2018. (CC)
Mark Eager Steps Down from Welsh Sinfonia
United Kingdom Beethoven, Rodrigo, Rossini, Charlie Barber: Saki Kato (guitar), Welsh Sinfonia / Mark Eager (conductor). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 17.3.2018. (PCG)
Fine Singing and a Staging that Could Hardly be Bettered at the RNCM
United Kingdom Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Royal Northern College of Music / Anthony Kraus (conductor). RNCM Opera Theatre. 17.3.2018. (RJF)
Mid-Wales Opera’s Attractive and Intimate Eugene Onegin
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists and Ensemble Cymru / Jonathan Lyness (conductor), Riverfront Theatre, Newport, 16.3.2018. (GPu)
In their Year of Change Ballet Black’s Barbican Performances Hold the Attention
United Kingdom Ballet Black – The Suit and A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Barbican Theatre, London, 16.3.2018. (JO’D)
(c) Bill Cooper
Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky Dance in Dialogue at the Festival Hall
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky: Daniil Trifonov (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 17.3.2018. (CS)
