August 2018 – Seen and Heard International

Happy Birthday Lenny! Tanglewood Celebrates Bernstein’s Legacy

18/09/201831/08/2018 by Rick Perdian

United States Tanglewood [7] – The Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood: Audra MacDonald (host), Boston Symphony Orchestra joined by musicians from the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival / Christoph Eschenbach, Keith Lockhart, Andris Nelsons, Michael Tilson Thomas, John Williams (conductors), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 25.8.2018. (RP)

Yo-Yo Ma, Jessica Zhou, and John Williams following Williams’s *Highwood’s Ghost* © Chris Lee

The Berlin Phil and Kirill Petrenko Simply in a Class of their Own

18/09/201831/08/2018 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Lucerne Festival [2] – R. Strauss, Beethoven: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, Lucerne, 29.8.2018. (JR)

Berliner Philharmoniker & Kirill Petrenko (conductor)
(c) Salzburger Festspiele/Monika Rittershaus

Fine Partnership of Nézet-Séguin and Rotterdam Philharmonic at the Proms

18/09/201830/08/2018 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Prom 61 – Liszt, Bruckner: Yefim Bronfman (piano); Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 28.8.2018. (CC)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Yefim Bronfman (piano) (c) Chris Christodoulou

Bampton’s Clever UK Modern-Times Première of Isouard’s Cendrillon

18/09/201829/08/2018 by AUTHOR

United Kingdom Bampton Classical Opera 2018 – Isouard, Cendrillon: Soloists and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Harry Sever (conductor), Westonbirt Orangery, Tetbury, 27.8.2018. (CP)

Jenny Stafford (Tisbe), Benjamin Durrant (Dandini) & Aoife O’Sullivan (Clorinde)
in *Cendrillon* (c) Bampton Classical Opera

Sebastian Catana’s Jester Anchors Berkshire Opera Festival’s Riveting Rigoletto

18/09/201829/08/2018 by Rick Perdian

United States Berkshire Opera Festival – Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Berkshire Opera Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Brian Garman (conductor), Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield, MA, 25.8.2018. (RP)

Sebastian Catana (Rigoletto) and Maria Valdes (Gilda) in Berkshire Opera Festival’s Rigoletto © Ken Howard — Sebastian Catana (Rigoletto) & Maria Valdes (Gilda) in *Rigoletto* © Ken Howard

An Encouraging Augury for the Berlin Philharmonic’s Partnership with Kirill Petrenko

18/09/201829/08/2018 by Mark Berry

Germany Salzburg Festival [6] – Strauss and Beethoven: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 26.8.2018. (MB)

Kirill Petrenko (conductor) & BPO (c) Salzburger Festspiele/Monika Rittershaus

Salzburg’s Highly Successful Production of The Queen of Spades

18/09/201829/08/2018 by Mark Berry

Germany Salzburg Festival [5] – Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir (chorus master: Wolfgang Götz), Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberfer), Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy (stage music), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 25.8.2018. (MB)

Salzburger Festspiele (c) Monika Rittershaus — Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*(c) Salzburger Festspiele/Monika Rittershaus

Marin Alsop Leads a Fine Centenary Tribute to Her Mentor, Leonard Bernstein

17/09/201829/08/2018 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom PROM 60 – Bernstein, Shostakovich: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet (piano), Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 27.8.2018. (CS)

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (c) BBC/Chris hristodoulou

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