United Kingdom Aljaž and Janette A Night to Remember: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 20.5.2025. (JPr)
Have A Night to Remember with Strictly’s Aljaž and Janette, their dancers and live band
Jim Pritchard
You will find Asmik Grigorian’s tour de force in Paris Opera’s Il trittico hard to forget
France Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra national de Paris / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Broadcast live from the Opéra Bastille (directed by Mathilde Jobbé-Duval) on 16.5.2025 and available until 16.6.2025. (JPr)
Barrie Kosky’s minimally staged, flawed Royal Opera Walküre, is great music theatre nonetheless
United Kingdom Wagner, Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, London, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 14.5.2025. (JPr)
A superb cast reimagines Shakespeare in the joyful and absolutely unmissable & Juliet
United Kingdom & Juliet: Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 5.5.2025. (JPr)
Eleonora Buratto was an outstanding Cio-Cio-San in Berlin Philharmonic’s exceptional Madama Butterfly
Germany Puccini, Madama Butterfly (concert performance): Soloists, Rundfunkchor Berlin (chief conductor: Gijs Leenaars), Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Broadcast live from the Berlin Philharmonie (directed by Michael Beyer) on the Digital Concert Hall, 27.4.2025. (JPr)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: see it on tour and let your imagination do most of the work
United Kingdom The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (based on the novel by C. S. Lewis): Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 15.4.2025. (JPr)
Sonya Yoncheva as Iolanta headlines an exceptional cast in Vienna’s intriguing new production
Austria Tchaikovsky, Iolanta: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Tugan Sokhiev (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Ella Galliani) from Vienna State Opera, 6.4.2025. (JPr)
Sondra Radvanovsky brings her own ideas about Turandot to The Royal Opera’s much-revived production
United Kingdom Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Rafael Payare (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Bridget Caldwell) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 1.4.2025. (JPr)
