Year: 2021

Roderick Williams and operas by Bernstein, Barber and Mozart delight audiences at Cumbria Opera Festival 2021

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Memories of the Cumbria Opera Festival 2021 The Cumbria Opera Group has existed since 2016, with the aim of bringing high-quality opera, classical music, and music education to the fantastic county of Cumbria. For a week in September this year they presented Cumbria’s first ever Opera Festival. It will return in 2023 (26 August to … Read more

The pity of war: Kent Nagano’s shattering War Requiem in Zurich  

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland Britten, War Requiem: Georgia Jarman (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Russell Braun (baritone), Zürcher Sing-Akademie (chorus master: Florian Helgath), Zürcher Sängerknaben (chorus masters: Konrad von Aarburg & Alphons von Aarburg), Tonhalle Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich 7.10.2021. (JR)

Kent Nagano (c) Antoine Saito

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Lively and sophisticated: Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love at Lyric Opera of Chicago

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Denis Vélez (Giannetta), Charles Castronovo (Nemorino) & Chorus (c) Cory Weaver

United StatesUnited States Donizetti, The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 2.10.2021. (JLZ)

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Fulham Opera perform the revised ‘Wiener-Fassung’ of Die Ägyptische Helena this month at their Fulham home

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Fulham Opera’s Die Ägyptische Helena – 19 – 30 October 2021 at St John’s Church, Fulham, London

  • Fulham Opera to stage the UK premiere of the Vienna version of Richard Strauss’s Die Ägyptische Helena
  • New orchestration by Paul Plummer
  • New production directed by Guido Martin-Brandis
  • Fulham Opera are the most ambitious fringe opera company in London, having produced Don Carlo, Falstaff, Die Meistersinger and a complete Ring cycle since their founding in 2011

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