2021 – Seen and Heard International

Lush Berg and poised Mozart in Cleveland

25/06/202122/05/2021 by Mark S Jordan

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)

Afendi Yusuf (clarinet), Stephen Rose, Jeanne Preucil Rose (violins),
Lynne Ramsey (viola) & Mark Kosower (cello) (c) Roger Mastroianni

Harmoniemusik is a life-enhancing concert from the Academy of Ancient Music in Cambridge

25/06/202122/05/2021 by Colin Clarke

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)

AAM’s *Harmoniemusik*: From field to table

Bampton Classical Opera’s performance of Gluck‘s La corona is a joy from beginning to end

25/06/202120/05/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Gluck, La corona (concert performance): Soloists, CHROMA / Robert Howarth (conductor). St John’s, Smith Square, London, 18.5.2021. (MB)

Harriet Eyley (Meleagro) and Samantha Louis-Jean (Atalanta) (c) Simon Weir

Frankfurt Opera announces 2021-2022 season

25/06/202120/05/2021 by Rick Perdian

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

25/06/202119/05/2021 by AUTHOR

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’

In a sentimental mood – guitarist Jason Vieaux in recital for Chamber Music Northwest

25/06/202119/05/2021 by Rick Perdian

United States Various, Jason Vieaux: Eloquent & Eclectic: Jason Vieaux (guitar). Chamber Music Northwest, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, premiered on 15.5.2021 and available to stream through 22.5.2021 on cmnw.org. (RP)

The ESO plays David Matthews’s conspicuously successful arrangement of Elgar’s String Quartet

25/06/202118/05/2021 by John Quinn

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)

Kenneth Woods conducting the English Symphony Orchestra

She Walks in Beauty – Marianne is Faithfull

02/03/202317/05/2021 by Jack Buckley

Marianne is Faithfull

Marianne is Faithfull. That’s true whether upper or lower case is used for the f. We have to ask, faithful to what or to whom? In Marianne’s case it doesn’t just mean tribe, though as I shall show, that is of overwhelming importance; it means faithful to herself, even as that self continues to reveal to her, unknown aspects of herself.

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