United States Handel, Semele: Soloists, Chatham Baroque / Antony Walker, Pittsburgh Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Headquarters, Pittsburgh, 20.5.2022. (RP)
Pittsburgh Opera scores musically and visually with its Art Deco Semele
Month: May 2021
Lush Berg and poised Mozart in Cleveland
United States In Focus / Episode Eleven, Order and Disorder: Afendi Yusuf (clarinet), Stephen Rose (violin), Jeanne Preucil Rose (violin), Lynne Ramsey (viola), Mark Kosower (cello), Strings of The Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Performed in Severance Hall, Cleveland, 18-19.3 and 14.4.2021 and reviewed as a video stream. (MSJ)
Lynne Ramsey (viola) & Mark Kosower (cello) (c) Roger Mastroianni
Harmoniemusik is a life-enhancing concert from the Academy of Ancient Music in Cambridge
United Kingdom Harmoniemusik: From field to table: Peter Whelan (bassoon) / Members of the Academy of Ancient Music. Livestreamed from the West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, 21.5.2021. (CC)
Bampton Classical Opera’s performance of Gluck‘s La corona is a joy from beginning to end
United Kingdom Gluck, La corona (concert performance): Soloists, CHROMA / Robert Howarth (conductor). St John’s, Smith Square, London, 18.5.2021. (MB)
Frankfurt Opera announces 2021-2022 season
Frankfurt Opera’s 2021-2022 season will see eleven new productions, of which eight will be performed in the opera house and three in the Bockenheimer Depot, a former tram depot and the main workshop of the Straßenbahn Frankfurt am Main. In addition, there will be fifteen revivals of past productions and eight vocal recitals. Complete details … Read more
Opernhaus Zürich for 2021/22
THE 2021/22 SEASON AT THE OPERNHAUS ZÜRICH
GIANANDREA NOSEDA SUCCEEDS FABIO LUISI AS GENERAL MUSIC DIRECTOR
A NEW ’RING DES NIBELUNGEN’ +NEW PRODUCTIONS WITH CECILIA BARTOLI AND
DIANA DAMRAU + WORLD PREMIERES AND HIDDEN GEMS
OPERA REVIVALS WITH ANNA NETREBKO, ANJA HARTEROS, ELĪNA GARANČA, BRYN TERFEL, LUDOVIC TEZIER AND MARCELO ÁLVAREZ
THE BALLETT ZÜRICH – CRYSTAL PITE RETURNS, A WORLD PREMIERE BY CHRISTIAN SPUCK, AND NEW WORKS BY THE DANCERS
377 PERFORMANCES, 17 PREMIERES, 20 REVIVALS, 43 CONCERTS & SONG RECITALS,
15 SPECIAL OFFERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, ‘OPER FÜR ALLE’ & ’BALLETT FÜR ALLE’
The ESO plays David Matthews’s conspicuously successful arrangement of Elgar’s String Quartet
United Kingdom Elgar reimagined, Elgar (arr. David Matthews): English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods (conductor). Wyastone Concert Hall, Monmouth. Relayed via the ESO’s YouTube channel, 14.5.2021. (JQ)
