Jim Pritchard – Page 28 – Seen and Heard International

The London Sinfonietta introducing the audience to Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

30/12/202204/11/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Penderecki and Messiaen: Tim Gill (cello), Jonathan Cross (speaker), London Sinfonietta. Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 3.11.2022. (JC)

Cellist Tim Gill and members of the London Sinfonietta in rehearsal © Belinda Lawley

Philipp Stölzl explores Turandot’s brutal side as Zubin Mehta pulls the strings in Berlin

30/12/202201/11/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Germany Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Staatsopern Chor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Zubin Mehta (conductor). Filmed (directed by Tiziano Mancini) on 18.6.2022 at Staatsoper Unter den Linden but available until 13.1.2023 on ARTE Concert. (JPr)

Yusif Eyvazov (Calaf) at the end of *Turandot* Act I

A remarkable Oxford Lieder recital by tenor Christoph Prégardien and pianist Michael Gees

31/10/202228/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2022 [8] – Brahms, Schumann, Schubert: Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano). St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 26.10.2022. (CR)

Martin Schläpfer attempts to reawaken Sleeping Beauty for the 2020s in Vienna

29/10/202227/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Vienna State Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen): Dancers of Vienna State Ballet, Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Patrick Lange (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Balázs Delbó) from the Vienna State Opera, 24.10.2022. (JPr)

Hyo-Jung Kang (Princess Aurora) in Vienna State Ballet’s *Sleeping Beauty*

For Blackeyed Theatre ‘The game is afoot’ as Sherlock Holmes decodes The Valley of Fear

26/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Blackeyed Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear: Filmed (directed by Alex Harvey-Brown) at Bracknell’s Wilde Theatre, 16.9.2022, and available here as a digital stream. (JPr)

Dr Watson (Joseph Derrington) and Luke Barton (Sherlock Holmes) © Alex Harvey-Brown

The RPO’s Mahler Eighth wasn’t the overwhelming experience expected from the forces involved

25/10/202224/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mahler Symphony No.8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand’: Soloists, Philharmonia Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, City of London Choir, Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 23.10.2022. (JPr)

Vasily Petrenko conducts Mahler’s Symphony No.8 (Part I) © Andy Paradise

Ailyn Pérez and Juan Diego Flórez star in Richard Jones’s enthralling Covent Garden La bohème

22/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Kevin John Edusei (conductor). Broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 20.10.2022. (JPr)

Asmik Grigorian’s standout Jenůfa in a Vienna revival with no weak link in the cast

18/10/202217/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Janáček, Jenůfa: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from Vienna State Opera, 15.10.2022. (JPr)

Kostelnička (Eliška Weissová) and Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) © Michael Pöhn

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