July 2021 – Page 9 – Seen and Heard International

Semperoper Ballett’s first streaming event is a six-part celebration of who they are and how they’re doing things

21/08/202105/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Germany A Collection of Short Stories – multi-part ballet evening: Dancers of Semperoper Ballett. Filmed (directed by Tilo Krause for Armida Film) at Semperoper Dresden and streamed from 2 until 15.7.2021 (click here). (JPr)

*The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude* (c) Ian Whalen

There is huge applause at Munich’s Tristan und Isolde for Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros and Kirill Petrenko

21/08/202105/07/2021 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 4.7.2021 (ALL)

Jonas Kaufmann (Tristan) and Anja Harteros (Isolde) © W. Hösl

Bright, clean and gorgeous playing from the Castalians at the East Neuk Festival 2021

21/08/202105/07/2021 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom East Neuk Festival 2021 – Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Castalian Quartet (Sini Simonen, Daniel Roberts [violin], Charlotte Bonneton [viola], Christopher Graves [cello]). The Bowhouse, St Monans, Fife, 4.7.2021. (SRT)

Das Rheingold revival in Munich: sometimes pleasing but rather an uneven performance

21/08/202104/07/2021 by José Irurzun

Germany Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Bayerische Staatsoper Orchestra / Patrick Lange (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 3.7.2021. (JMI)

Bayerische Staatsoper’s *Das Rheingold* (c) W. Hösl

New Chamber Opera’s delightful, charming and innocent production of Galuppi’s The She-Devil

21/08/202104/07/2021 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Galuppi, La Diavolessa: Soloists of New Chamber Opera and The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor/harpsichord). New College, Oxford, 30.6.2021. (CR)

Robin Ticciati and LPO bring Vaughan Williams and Mahler to the idyllic South Down

17/03/202503/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Vaughan Williams, Mahler – London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Rites of Passage: Sally Matthews (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Filmed 15.6.2021 in the Glyndebourne Opera House (by Maestro Broadcasting and directed by Dominic Best) and available on Marquee TV from 2.7.2021. (JPr)

Sally Matthews (soprano), LPO and Robin Ticciati (conductor)

Business-as-usual mediocrity instead of post-Covid risk-taking: Gürbaca’s Lucia is way off the mark in Zurich

21/08/202102/07/2021 by Casey Creel

Switzerland Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Speranza Scappucci (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 26.6.2021. (CCr)

Steven Isserlis and Sam Haywood in a splendid finale to the Spotlight Chamber Concerts

21/08/202101/07/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Waterloo Festival [5] – Bruch, R. Strauss, Dvořák, and Le Beau: Steven Isserlis (cello), Sam Haywood (piano). St John’s, Waterloo, London, 24.6.2021. (MB)

Steven Isserlis (cello) and Sam Haywood (piano) (c) Matthew Johnson

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