2021 – Seen and Heard International

English Touring Opera announce 2021 digital season on ETO at Home

14/05/202103/04/2021 by AUTHOR

Easter Sunday: St John Passion
and Documentary on Freelance Opera Artists in Lockdown

On Easter Sunday, ETO will launch its 2021 digital season on ETO at Home, the company’s new streaming platform.

The platform will be launched with the Spring 2020 production of Bach’s St John Passion. The performance was recorded on the 5th of March 2020 at Hackney Empire before ETO’s Spring 2020 tour was cancelled. The film weaves together footage of the live performance with 90 individual video contributions made by choir members in isolation from Cumbria to Cornwall who were due to participate in performances across the country.

The Passion will be accompanied by a 10-minute documentary exploring the lives of the production’s singers and musicians in the year since the performance. Both films will be free to access.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s remarkably powerful St John Passion streamed from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre

14/05/202103/04/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Bach’s St John Passion, BWV 245: Nick Pritchard {Evangelist}, William Thomas (Christus}, Alex Ashworth (Pilatus), Julia Doyle (soprano), Alexander Chance (countertenor), Peter Davoren (tenor), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, streamed on DG Stage (click here) 2.4.2021. (CC)

Christine Goerke demonstrates her impressive range – vocal, dramatic and comedic

14/05/202103/04/2021 by Harvey Steiman

United States Various, Christine Goerke (soprano) and Craig Terry (piano): Recorded at Art Factory Studios, Paterson, NJ, on 18.2.2021, for Cal Performances at Home. Streaming from 1.4.2021 to 30.6.2021. (HS)

Bacewicz to the future as Hallé debutant Delyana Lazarova also conducts Copland and Shostakovich

14/05/202103/04/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Bacewicz, Copland, Shostakovich: Hallé / Delyana Lazarova (conductor). Broadcast (directed by Jonathan Haswell) from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, and streamed on 1.4.2021. (JPr)

Aljaž and Janette’s Remembering the Oscars is a happy hour to help you forget the past year

14/05/202102/04/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara in Remembering the Oscars: Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara and company with Janine Johnson and Giovanni Spanó (singers). Available to stream until 17.4.2021. (JPr)

Aljaž Škorjanec and Janette Manrara ‘The Way We Were’

Kopatchinskaja breathes life into everything she touches and her Death and the Maiden film is astonishing

14/05/202101/04/2021 by Colin Clarke

Switzerland Death and the Maiden – Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) and CAMERATA BERN: Streamed via Virtual Circle by Harrison Parrott.

Mozart: the thick and thin of it

02/03/202301/04/2021 by Jack Buckley

Readers of the London Review of Books have recently been reminded of the incomparable importance of Brigid Brophy (1929-1995), born of Irish parents in Ealing, West London, sometimes called Lady Levey, since her happy husband, Sir Michael Levey, who was Director of the National Gallery, gave up his posting to look after her in her final illness of multiple sclerosis, following her many lesbian affairs, with among others, Iris Murdock.

Pushing the envelope: drag queens and saints on the Opera Philadelphia Channel

14/05/202131/03/2021 by Rick Perdian

United States Courtney Bryan’s Blessed & Angélica Negrón’s The Island We Made: Available to stream until 31.5.2021 on the Opera Philadelphia Channel, 30.3.2021. (RP)

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