Colin Clarke – Page 24 – Seen and Heard International

AAM’s revelatory, richly satisfying, Command Performance: Music for an Empress

25/11/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Command Performance: Music for an Empress: Alexandra Lowe (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music / Laurence Cummings (director). Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 23.11.2023. (CC)

AAM’s *Command Performance: Music for an Empress* in Milton Court Concert Hall

Insula’s Sky Burial at the Barbican is a stunning evening, unique, and vitally important

28/11/202322/11/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Gounod, Fauré – Sky Burial: Oliver Barlow (treble), John Brancy (baritone), Amitai Pati (tenor), Mat Collishaw (filmmaker), accentus, Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 20.11.2023. (CC)

Laurence Equilbey conducts tenor Amitai Pati, accentus, and the Insula Orchestra with Mat Collishaw’s projections to the rear background © Mark Allan

Covent Garden’s new production of Handel’s Jephtha is currently something of a missed opportunity

28/11/202310/11/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Handel, Jephtha, HWV 70: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Lawrence Cummings (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 8.11.2023. (CC)

Oliver Mears’s new production of *Jephtha* © Marc Brenner

ENO’s 7 Deaths of Maria Callas: a lovely set of vocal performances within a concept of limited appeal

28/11/202307/11/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Abramović/Nikodijević, 7 Deaths of Maria Callas (UK premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Yoel Gamzou (conductor). London Coliseum, 3.22.2023. (CC)

Sarah Tynan (Lucia) and Marina Abramović (Callas) © Tristram Kenton

The ENO Orchestra is excellent in a well-sung Traviata and Konwitschny’s concept is an interesting one

28/11/202304/11/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Richard Farnes (conductor). London Coliseum, 2.11.2023. (CC)

The NOVO Quartet win big in this year’s Geneva Competition and has a fine future ahead

28/11/202302/11/2023 by Colin Clarke

Switzerland The 77th Concours de Geneve: String Quartet final round: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland, 29.10.2023. (CC)

The Philharmonia’s Barber and Copland were reminders of the greatness of this fine orchestra

29/10/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Shaw, Barber, Copland: Renaud Capuçon (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra / Ryan Bancroft (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.10.2023. (CC)

In the title role Amartuvshin Enkhbat dominates the current revival of Oliver Mears’s Rigoletto

27/10/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Julia Jones (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 24.10.2023. (CC)

Gianluca Buratto (Sparafucile) and Ramona Zaharia (Maddalena) © Tristram Kenton

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