Germany Bayreuth Festival 2018 [1] -Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 26.7.2018. (JPr)
Jim Pritchard
Against All the Odds Søndergård’s Proms ‘Symphony of a Thousand’ Wins in the End
United Kingdom Prom 11 – Mahler: Soloists, Southend Boys’ Choir, Southend Girls’ Choir, BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Chorus, BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thomas Søndergård (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London 22.7.2018. (JPr)
Glyndebourne’s Proms Pelléas Baffles Watching Audience, Enchants Listeners at Home
United Kingdom Prom 5 – Debussy: Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.7.2018. (JPr)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
The Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists 2018 Summer Performance Proves a Celebratory Showcase
United Kingdom 2018 Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Music and Opera Excerpts from Offenbach, Rossini, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss and Ambroise Thomas: Noa Naamat (director), Nick Havell (lighting designer), Jo Meredith (movement director) Jette Parker Young Artists, Orchestra of Opera North / Nick Fletcher, James Hendry, Matthew Scott Rogers, Sonia Ben-Santamaria & Jac van Steen (conductors). The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 15.7.2018. (JPr)
Thanks to Barry Humphries and Meow Meow Weimar Germany’s Silenced Voices are Heard Once More
United Kingdom Various compoers, Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret: Barry Humphries (conférencier/voice), Meow Meow (cabaret artist), Satu Vänskä (musical director/voice), Aurora Orchestra, Barbican Theatre, London, 12.7.2018. (JPr)
Kelli O’Hara’s Anna is the Glory of The King and I Revival at the London Palladium
United Kingdom Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I: London Palladium, 4.7.2018. (JPr)
The OAE Brings the Music and Dance of Louis XIV’s Versailles to the Southbank
United Kingdom André Campra, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau and others: Anna Dennis (soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Les Corps Éloquents (Hubert Hazebroucq [dancer/choreographer] and dancers: Irène Feste and Romain Arreghini), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / John Butt (harpsichord/conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 26.6.2018. (JPr)
Terfel and Martineau Bring a Wonderful End to the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival
United Kingdom 2018 Aldeburgh Festival – Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) and Malcolm Martineau (piano): Snape Maltings Concert Hall. 24.6.2018. (JPr)
