2021 – Seen and Heard International

Frank Castorf’s cinematic Vienna Faust explores society, patriotism, consumerism, commercialism and voodoo

31/05/202101/05/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Gounod, Faust: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Bertrand de Billy (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Jacob Pitzer) from Vienna State Opera, 29.4.2021. (JPr)

Adam Palka (Méphistophélès), Nicole Car (Marguerite) & Juan Diego Flórez (Faust)

‘Music and the Mind’: Renée Fleming’s scholarly quasi-recital for Cal Performances at Home

31/05/202101/05/2021 by Harvey Steiman

United States ‘Music and the Mind’: Renée Fleming (soprano), Robert Ainsley (piano), Ehud Isacoff (neuroscience). Recorded at the Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC., 16.3.2021, for Cal Performances at Home. First streamed on 29.4.2021 and available to 28.7.2021. (HS)

Lyric Opera of Chicago pares down a Wagnerian epic for a pandemic drive-through

31/05/202130/04/2021 by Dennis Polkow

United States Twilight: Gods, a Drive-Through Adaptation of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung: Soloists, actors and dancers, Members of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra. Performed at Millennium Lakeside Parking Garage, Chicago and reviewed on 26.4.2021 (running through 2.5.2021). (DP)

avery r. young (narrator) in *Twilight: Gods* (c) Kyle Flubacker

Emanuel Ax treats Philadelphia to an enthralling evening of latish Chopin

31/05/202129/04/2021 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Chopin: Emanuel Ax (piano). Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society & Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Philadelphia, 22.4.2021, reviewed from 24.4.21 stream. (BJ)

A new production of Don Giovanni at Prague’s Estates Theatre offers surprises, charms and thrills

31/05/202129/04/2021 by Rick Perdian

Czech Republic Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra / Karsten Januschke (conductor). Performed at Národní Divadlo, Estates Theatre, Prague and premiered 24.4.2021 on Czech Television and available for streaming globally until 1.5.2021. (RP)

Pavol Kubáň (Don Giovanni), Jana Sibera (Donna Anna)
and Richard Samek (Don Ottavio) © Jan Pohribný

The Hallé’s Summer Season of six live, socially distanced concerts in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall

31/05/202128/04/2021 by AUTHOR

THE HALLÉ IS BACK! LIVE AT THE BRIDGEWATER HALL

Orchestra announces Summer Season with six live concerts (3 June 2021 – 22 July 2021)

The Hallé is delighted to announce its Summer Season of six live, socially distanced concerts in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. Each programme will be performed twice at 2.15pm and 7pm, to allow as many people as possible to hear the orchestra live once more. Three of these concerts (3 & 17 June, 22 July) will also be available for online broadcast in the same style as the Hallé’s hugely successful Winter Season.

Royal Opera House to thank NHS workers with programme of live, world-class opera and ballet

31/05/202128/04/2021 by AUTHOR

#ThankYouNHS

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As the country emerges from lockdown restrictions, the Royal Opera House is delighted to announce a suite of performances, partnerships and events, as well as a special performance by the Royal Opera Chorus for hospital radios up and down the UK, to say thank you to the amazing staff of the NHS.

OOTS’s Timelapse 2.0 allows past and present to mix and mingle with joyful abandon and yield miraculous results

31/05/202128/04/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Timelapse 2.0 – Night Owl Digital Concert: Trish Clowes (saxophone), David Gordon (harpsichord and piano), Orchestra of the Swan / David LePage (violin/director). Filmed in Purfleet, first streamed on 26.4.2021. (CC)

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