Germany Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: Deutsche Oper Chorus and Orchestra / Ivan Repušić (conductor), Deutsche Oper Berlin, 23.9.2019. (JMI)
A rather modest Un ballo in maschera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Month: September 2019
Virtuosity from DiDonato but Kosky’s Agrippina is puzzling and contradictory
United Kingdom Handel, Agrippina: Soloists, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 23.9.2019. (AK)
Two great artists, Daniel Barenboim and Michael Volle, head the Staatsoper’s marvelous Ring cycle
Germany Der Ring des Nibelungen [1]: Wagner, Das Rheingold, Die Walkűre: Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Berlin / Daniel Barenboim (conductor), Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 21 & 22.9.2019. (JMI)
An evocation of the wonderfully bittersweet world of Weimar Berlin
United Kingdom Weimar Berlin: To the Cabaret!: Dagmar Manzel (singer), Simon McBurney (narrator), Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano), Gerard McBurney (creative director), Amelia Kosminsky (projection director), Caroline Moores (production/stage manager), Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 23.9.2019. (CC)
An interesting WNO Carmen in which the women outshine the men
United Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2019. (GPu)
(c) Bill Cooper
The Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra celebrates a unique relationship
United Kingdom Britten, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky: Jennifer Pike (violin), Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra / Jan-Latham-Koenig (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 22.9.2019. (GT)
An unmissable part of Scotland’s annual musical calendar ends in East Lothian
United Kingdom Lammermuir Festival 2019 [3]: Various ensembles and venues, 20-22.9.2019. (SRT)
Hulks Ahoy as CODA’s The Producers reopens the Ashcroft Playhouse
United Kingdom Mel Brooks, The Producers (lyrics and music by Brooks and adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan from the 1967 film): Ensembles and musicians of CODA (Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association) / Joshua Hickin (musical director and arranger). Ashcroft Playhouse at Fairfield Halls, Croydon. 20.9.2019. (JB)
