SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, THEATRE , BROADCASTS AND FILMS
United Kingdom Various composers, Songs for Nancy: Jacquelyn Stucker and Rhiannon Llewellyn (sopranos), CHROMA / Andrew Griffiths (conductor and piano). St. John’s Smith Square, London, 7.3.2018. (JPr)
United Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Directed for the screen by Pati Marr and broadcast to Cineworld Basildon from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 6.3.2018. (JPr)
United Kingdom Various Composers, Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2018: Dancers and English National Ballet Philharmonic / Valery Ovsyanikov (conductor). London Coliseum, 26.2.2018. (JPr)
United Kingdom Debussy, Ravel, Delius and Stravinsky: Benedetto Lupo (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Juanjo Mena (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 21.2.2018. (AS)
United Kingdom Various composers, Carly Paoli – ‘Singing My Dreams’: Federico Paciotti (tenor), Andrea Griminelli (flute), Tring Park 16, Abiah Symphony Orchestra / Steven Mercurio (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 15.2.2018. (JPr)
A highlight of this season for soprano Lisette Oropesa was her Royal Opera debut as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) at Covent Garden. She will soon be making a role debut as Euridice in the French version of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Los Angeles Opera, in a new production opening on the 10 March, directed and choreographed by John Neumeier, and conducted by James Conlon. In advance of these performances in Los Angeles, Lisette Oropesa answers Seen and Heard International’s questions about this current role, as well as, looking back on her life and her career.
United Kingdom Wolf: Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano), Barbican Hall, London, 16.2.2018. (JPr)
The Italian tenor Andrea Carè has recently appeared at the Teatro Real in Madrid – in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Puccini) and Bizet’s Carmen – and at the Palau de Les Arts in Valencia – in Verdi’s Don Carlo alongside Plácido Domingo – and he returns to Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House (February 16, 27 and March 8, 12, 16) in the role of Don José in Carmen, a role he first performed there in 2015. He has previously said: ‘In spite of the brutality and intolerance of what Don José does, I still believe that in reality he is a pure man who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is a passionate man, as many of us are, but he does not have the luck or intelligence to realise that Carmen represents a danger to his own life, his heart and his mental stability. I believe that, however mistakenly and violently he behaves, there is a Don José in every one of us, constantly struggling not to fall into the abyss of insanity’.
In advance of these performances at Covent Garden Andrea Carè answers Seen and Heard International’s questions about this current role, as well as, looking back on his life and his career.