2018 – Page 2 – Seen and Heard International

A Superb Production at Glyndebourne of Barber’s Unjustly Neglected Vanessa

21/08/201809/08/2018 by Robert Beattie

United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018 [3] – Barber, Vanessa: Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jakub Hrůša (conductor), Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Sussex, 6.8.2018. (RB)

Emma Bell (Vanessa) & Edgaras Montvidas (Anatol) in *Vanessa* (c) Tristram Kenton

Sir Mark Elder Brings a Lifetime of Wagner Experience to Hallé’s EIF Siegfried

21/08/201809/08/2018 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2018 [4] – Wagner: Hallé / Sir Mark Elder (conductor), Usher Hall, 8.8.2018. (SRT)

TENOR NICHOLAS PHAN IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER SALLON

24/02/202009/08/2018 by Christopher Sallon

Holding the Key: Nicholas Phan talks to Christopher Sallon

‘Music is for everybody, but the artist, alone, holds the key’ declares Nicholas Phan, one of the USA’s most accomplished lyric tenors. In a blog recorded in 2010, some eight years before our July interview in Tanglewood, he stood calmly before the camera and provided an ‘insider’s’ glimpse, as he prepared for his Carnegie Hall debut recital with accompanist Myra Huang. With a maturity and self-assurance which belied his years – he was then just 31 years old – he spoke of the need to take risks and proceeded to provide a key to his programme of songs by Benjamin Britten. Phan’s performance that night, particularly his account of Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, and the song cycle Winter Words, a setting of Thomas Hardy poems, garnered rave reviews, as did his Winter Words CD, released soon thereafter.

Thea Musgrave is Honoured During Richard Farnes’ Notable Proms Debut

21/08/201808/08/2018 by Alan Sanders

United Kingdom BBC PROM 33 – Musgrave and Brahms: Golda Schultz (soprano), Johan Reuter (baritone), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Richard Farnes (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.8.2018. (AS)

Golda Schultz (soprano) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by Richard Farnes (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou — Golda Schultz (soprano), BBC SO & Richard Farnes (conductor) (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Superb Account of Ives’ Second Symphony

21/08/201808/08/2018 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom BBC PROM 31 – Bernstein, Gershwin, Ives: Inon Barnatan (piano), Minnesota Orchestra / Osmo Vänskä (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.8.2018. (CC)

Minnesota Orchestra & Osmo Vänskä (conductor) (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

A New Production of The Magic Flute Premieres at the Festival Castell Peralada

13/08/201808/08/2018 by José Irurzun

Spain Festival Castell Peralada 2018 [2] – Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Liceu Chorus and Orchestra/Josep Pons (conductor), Castle Gardens Auditorium, Peralada, 6.8.2018. (JMI)

Festival Castell Peralada 2018 – Die Zauberflöte © T. Ferrer — Festival Castell Peralada 2018’s *Die Zauberflöte* © T. Ferrer

Cultured and Technically Adept Chamber Music from the Navarra Quartet

13/08/201808/08/2018 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Lake District Summer Music – Haydn, Britten, Schubert: Navarra Quartet (Magnus Johnston, Marije Johnston, Rebecca Jones, Brian O’Kane), St. Thomas’s Church, Kendal, Cumbria, 6.8.2018. (MC)

Still Celebrating! Bramwell Tovey Conducts Bernstein’s Songfest at Tanglewood

13/08/201808/08/2018 by Rick Perdian

United States Tanglewood [2]- Bernstein, Sibelius: Soloists, Boston Symphony Orchestra / Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 4.8.2018. (RP)

Bramwell Tovey leads the BSO and soloists in Bernstein’s *Songfest* © Hilary Scott

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