Simon Stone’s new thought-provoking retelling of Berg’s Wozzeck at Vienna State Opera

AustriaAustria Berg, Wozzeck: Soloists, Children’s Chorus, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna Stata / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from Vienna State Opera on 31.3.2022. (JPr)

Anja Kampe (Marie) & Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck) © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

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Nothing less than intriguing, though diminishing returns from Tobias Kratzer’s Il trittico at La Monnaie

BelgiumBelgium Puccini, Il trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi): La Monnaie Children’s and Youth Choirs (chorus director: Benoît Giaux), La Monnaie Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Ouri Bronchti (conductor). Livstreamed from Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, on 26.3.2022 and available on ARTE Concert (click here) until 25.6.2022. (JPr)

La Monnaie’s Il tabarro © Matthias Baus

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The Telephone leads to Miss Fortune for Guildhall School of Music and Drama

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone and Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Dominic Wheeler (conductor). Performance of 7.3.2022 streamed here from 25.3. until 1.4.2022. (JPr)

Cleo Lee McGowan (Tina), Jonathan Eyers (Simon) and Amy Holyland (Donna)

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‘Music of comfort, strength and hope’ in A Concert for Ukraine from the Metropolitan Opera

United StatesUnited States Various, A Concert for Ukraine: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House on 14.3.2022 and available here through 21.3.2022. (JPr)

Façade of the Lincoln Center

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