2019 – Page 2 – Seen and Heard International

Wigmore Hall’s A Winter Birthday is a true celebration of what is good, noble and deeply human

24/02/202025/12/2019 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Various composers, A Winter Birthday: Ailish Tynan (soprano), Anna Huntley (mezzo-soprano), Theodore Platt (baritone), Janet Suzman (readings), Graham Johnson (piano). Wigmore Hall, 21.12.2019. (AK)

L to r: Johnson, Wigmore Hall’s John Gilhooly, Suzman, Tynan, Huntley and Platt.

In Philadelphia, Kavakos and the orchestra in profoundly imaginative Shostakovich

24/02/202024/12/2019 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Shostakovich, Wynton Marsalis: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra / Cristian Mâcelaru (conductor). Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 14.12.2019. (BJ)

The Creation makes a fine Christmas treat at Zurich Opera

24/02/202023/12/2019 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Haydn, The Creation: Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Mauro Peter (tenor), Morgan Pearse (baritone), Orchestra La Scintilla / Riccardo Minasi (conductor). Zurich Opera House, 22.12.2019. (JR)

Monastyrska’s sumptuous Tosca fits Rome Opera’s reconstruction of original 1900 production

24/02/202023/12/2019 by Rick Perdian

Italy Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Orchestra and Chorus / Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 20.12.2019. (RP)

Liudmyla Monastyrska (Tosca) & Claudio Sgura (Scarpia) © Yasuko Kageyama

Circus 1903 at the Royal Festival Hall has magic and awe-inspiring, death-defying, feats

24/02/202023/12/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Circus 1903 – The Golden Age of Circus: Royal Festival Hall, London. 19.12.2019. (JPr)

*Circus 1903*‘s ‘African Elephants’ (c) Dan Tsantilis

Magnificent Bartók at the Barbican from François-Xavier Roth and the LSO

24/02/202022/12/2019 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Sophya Polevaya, Elgar, Bartók: Alisa Weilerstein (cello), London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth (conductor). Barbican Hall, 19.12.2019. (AK)

Constantin Trinks leads the VSO in Humperdinck and Tchaikovsky for the Christmas season

24/02/202022/12/2019 by Geoffrey Newman

Canada Humperdinck, Tchaikovsky: Kallie Claxton and Barb Towell (sopranos), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Constantin Trinks (conductor). Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 7.12.2019. (GN)

Barenboim’s Beethoven: the most human of music gets the most human of performances in Berlin

24/02/202022/12/2019 by Mark Berry

Germany Beethoven: Daniel Barenboim (piano), Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 20.12.2019. (MB)

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