Spain Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Liceu Chorus and Orchestra / Giampaolo Bisanti (conductor), Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 15 and 16.1.2019. (JMI)
Enthusiastic, Sold-out Houses Greet Both Nights of Madama Butterfly at the Liceu
Month: January 2019
IMS Prussia Cove Musicians Show How Beethoven Both Baffles and Beguiles
United Kingdom Mozart, Beethoven – IMS Prussia Cove Sándor Végh Memorial Concert: Kings Place, London, 14.1.2019. (CS)
Oxford Philharmonic’s Concert Showcases Three Principal Eras in Musical History
United Kingdom Bach, Schumann, and Beethoven: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, Charlotte Scott (violins), Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Town Hall, Oxford, 14.1.2019. (CR)
Stars Align to Enable This Royal Opera Traviata Revival Succeed Like Few Others
United Kingdom Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 14.1.2019. (CC)
Bleak Trovatore Boasts an Outstanding Quartet
United States Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists and Chorus of the Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony / Carlo Montanaro (conductor), Seattle, Washington, 12.1.2019. (ZC)
Big-Boned, Muscled-Up Bruckner from Jaap van Zweden
United States Mozart, Bruckner: Carey Bell (clarinet), San Francisco Symphony / Jaap van Zweden (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 11.1.2019. (HS)
A Mother’s Words Lift Dear Erich from the Maudlin and Mundane
United States Rosenthal, Dear Erich: Soloists, New York City Opera Orchestra / Adam Glaser (conductor), National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, New York, 12.1.2019. (RP)
in Ted Rosenthal’s Dear Erich © Sarah Shatz
Stefan Herheim’s Staging of The Queen of Spades Comes to Covent Garden
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Members of the Tiffin Children’s Chorus and Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding) and Extra Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 13.1.2019. (MB)
(c) Catherine Ashmore