Germany Bayreuth Festival 2018 [2] Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Christian Thielemann (conductor), Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 27.7.2018. (JPr)
Month: August 2018
Bychkov’s Intense and Dramatic Bayreuth Parsifal Puts a Stranglehold on the Senses
Germany Bayreuth Festival 2018 [1] -Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 26.7.2018. (JPr)
A Carmen at Bregenz to Make Your Mother Swoon
Austria Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Children’s choir of Musikmittelschule Bregenz-Stadt, Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Antonino Fogliani (conductor), Bregenz Festival ‘Spiel auf dem See’, Bregenz, 31.7.2018. (CCr)
Kirill Petrenko Conducts an Outstanding Götterdämmerung at the 2018 Munich Opera Festival
Germany Munich Opera Festival 2018 [8] – Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Bayerische Staatsoper Chorus and Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 27.7.2018. (JMI)
Andrew Manze Leads Splendid Accounts of Two Very Different ‘London’ Symphonies
United Kingdom BBC PROMS 22 – Haydn and Vaughan Williams: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, / Andrew Manze (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.7.2018. (AS)
Operatic Inspiration from—Yes—Pink Floyd
United States Roger Waters/Julien Bilodeau, Another Brick on the Wall: Soloists, Members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra / Alain Trudel (conductor), School for Creative and Performing Arts, Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio. 31.7.2018. (RDA)
A Performance of Eine Alpensinfonie to Cherish in the Memory
United Kingdom BBC PROMS 21 – Mozart, Georg Friedrich Haas and R. Strauss: Hornroh Modern Alphorn Quartet, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 30.7.2018. (AS)