Year: 2022

Excellent production of works by Honegger and Debussy at the Teatro Real

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SpainSpain Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher & Claude Debussy‘s La Damoiselle élue: Pequeños Cantores JORCAM (chorus director: Ana González); Chorus (chorus director: Andrés Máspero) and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Juanjo Mena (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 16.6.2022. (JMI)

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Bampton Classical Opera’s September performances of Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno 

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BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA 2022 – G F Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (1707) Performances: 3 September, 7pm: Old Walland, Wadhurst, Sussex, TN5 6LU 11 September, 3pm: Weald Manor, Bampton, Oxfordshire, OX18 2HQ 24 September, 4pm: Summer at Breinton, Woking, Surrey, GU22 0RD Libretto: anonymous, English translation by Gilly French Conductor: Julian Perkins Bampton Classical Player This autumn Bampton … Read more

Strong cast, striking visuals and beautiful finish lift San Francisco Opera’s Dream of the Red Chamber revival

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Meigui Zhang plays the qin in Dream of the Red Chamber © Cory Weaver

United StatesUnited States Bright Sheng, Dream of the Red Chamber: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Darrell Ang (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 14.6.2022. (HS)

 

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Previewing the Festival de Música dos Capuchos 2022 with artistic director Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro

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Festival de Música dos Capuchos 2022 Beginning in 1980 the Festival de Música dos Capuchos was a major event on the international landscape. After a silence of two decades, the Festival was reborn in 2021 in a beautiful monastery in Almada across the Tagus River from Lisbon, with the hall at the University of Lisbon’s … Read more