Jim Pritchard – Page 27 – Seen and Heard International

David Alden’s Otello for Grange Park Opera is compelling from first note till last

06/07/202206/07/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Bamber Season 2022 – Verdi, Otello: Soloists, Chorus, The Gascoigne Orchestra / Gianluca Marcianò (conductor). Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, 3.7.2022. (JPr)

Elizabeth Llewellyn (Desdemona) and Gwyn Hughes Jones (Otello) (c) Marc Brenner

Grange Park Opera’s fine playing and singing redeems the almost irredeemable La Gioconda

05/07/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Bamber Season 2022 – Ponchielli, La Gioconda: Soloists, Chorus, The Gascoigne Orchestra / Stephen Barlow (conductor). Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, 2.7.2022. (JPr)

Much to admire in Parsifal from Opera North despite staging and casting missteps

28/06/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Parsifal: Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Richard Farnes (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.6.2022. (JPr)

Toby Spence (Parsifal) and Katerina Karnéus (Kundry) (c) Mark Allan

If you think the unmissable Here Come The Boys is just another Strictly show you couldn’t be more wrong

26/06/202225/06/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Here Come The Boys: Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Essex, 22.6.2022. (JPr)

ASMF’s A London Dream is a must-see evocative mix of Mendelssohn, Shakespeare, dance and sight-seeing

22/06/2022 by Jim Pritchard

A London Dream: a film from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields premiered on Sky Arts, 21.6.2022. (JPr) Standing on the Southbank of the River Thames Zakia Sewell introduced A London Dream – a film featuring the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, as well as the city that is its home … Read more

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David Alden’s Otello for Grange Park Opera is compelling from first note till last

Grange Park Opera’s fine playing and singing redeems the almost irredeemable La Gioconda

Much to admire in Parsifal from Opera North despite staging and casting missteps

If you think the unmissable Here Come The Boys is just another Strictly show you couldn’t be more wrong

ASMF’s A London Dream is a must-see evocative mix of Mendelssohn, Shakespeare, dance and sight-seeing

Tom Morris’s life-affirming Vienna L’Orfeo is as immersive an experience as is possible in an opera house

Pretty Yende is compelling both as actor and singer in Vienna’s I puritani

Her I Am Here show proves Oti Mabuse is definitely here to stay