Skip to content

Seen and Heard International

SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, THEATRE , BROADCASTS AND FILMS

Seen and Heard International

  • Home
  • Concerts
    • UK Concerts
    • International Concerts
  • Opera & Ballet
    • International Opera
    • UK Opera
    • Ballet and Dance Reviews
  • Theatre & Broadcasts
    • Broadcasts and Film
    • Musicals
    • Theatre
  • Articles & Interviews
    • Featured Articles and News
    • Interviews
    • News and Press Releases
    • Season Previews
  • Festivals
    • Festival 2020
    • Festival 2021
      • Aspen Music Festival 2021
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2021
      • Three Choirs Festival 2021
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2021
    • Festival 2022
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2022
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2022
      • Aspen Music Festival 2022
    • Festival 2023
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2023
      • Three Choirs Festival 2023
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2023
    • Festival 2024
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2024
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2024
      • Salzburg Festival 2024
    • Festival 2025
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2025
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2025
    • BBC Promenade Concerts 2026
  • Contact
  • HOW TO DONATE
  • Home
  • Concerts
    • UK Concerts
    • International Concerts
  • Opera & Ballet
    • International Opera
    • UK Opera
    • Ballet and Dance Reviews
  • Theatre & Broadcasts
    • Broadcasts and Film
    • Musicals
    • Theatre
  • Articles & Interviews
    • Featured Articles and News
    • Interviews
    • News and Press Releases
    • Season Previews
  • Festivals
    • Festival 2020
    • Festival 2021
      • Aspen Music Festival 2021
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2021
      • Three Choirs Festival 2021
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2021
    • Festival 2022
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2022
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2022
      • Aspen Music Festival 2022
    • Festival 2023
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2023
      • Three Choirs Festival 2023
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2023
    • Festival 2024
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2024
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2024
      • Salzburg Festival 2024
    • Festival 2025
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2025
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2025
    • BBC Promenade Concerts 2026
  • Contact
  • HOW TO DONATE

Rick Perdian

Bryn Terfel’s Wonderful, World-Weary Sir John Falstaff in Zurich

14/10/201529/09/2015 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Verdi: Falstaff: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor), Zurich Opera, 27.9.2015 (RP)

Zurich_Falstaff_Photo

Read more

Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Rick Perdian, Zurich

Zurich Opera’s Wozzeck  ̶  Stark, Brutal, Transcendent

29/09/201527/09/2015 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Berg: Wozzeck, Soloists, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor), Zurich Opera, 25.09.2015 (RP)
Zurich_Wozzeck

Read more

Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Rick Perdian, Zurich Leave a comment

Verismo Double Bill with a Lyric Touch

27/09/201516/09/2015 by Rick Perdian

SingaporeSingapore Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci, & Puccini: Gianni Schicchi: Singapore Lyric Opera Orchestra, Singapore Lyric Opera Chorus, SLO Children’s Choir, Joshua Kangming Tan (conductor), Esplanade Theatre, 10.09.2015  (RP)

Verismo Double Bill with a Lyric Touch
Verismo Double Bill with a Lyric Touch

Read more

Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags Rick Perdian, Singapore Leave a comment

Second Concert in Beethoven Series Hits the Mark

10/09/201507/09/2015 by Rick Perdian

SingaporeSingapore Cherubini, Beethoven: Stephen Hough (piano), Lan Shui (conductor) Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, 5.9.2015 (RP)

SSO_Hough_05092015
Pianist Stephen Hough with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Rick Perdian, Singapore Leave a comment

Hough’s The Loneliest Wilderness Opens Beethoven Cycle

10/09/201505/09/2015 by Rick Perdian

SingaporeSingapore Hough, Beethoven: Ng Pei-Sian (cello), Stephen Hough (piano), Lan Shui (conductor) Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Esplanade Concert Hall, 02.09.2015 (RP)

SSO_Ng Pei-San
Cellist Ng Pei-Sian with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
in Steven Hough’s The Loneliest Wilderness

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Rick Perdian, Singapore Leave a comment

Beyond Bach – Masaaki Suzuki with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra

10/09/201531/08/2015 by Rick Perdian

SingaporeSingapore Bach, Poulenc, Beethoven: Masato Suzuki (organ), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor), Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, 28.8.2015 (RP)

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Rick Perdian, Singapore Leave a comment

Music Has a Home in KL’s Twin Towers

13/08/202026/08/2015 by Rick Perdian

MalaysiaMalaysia Merican, Liszt, Brahms, Dvořák: Ciarán McAuley & Mustafa Fuzer Nawi (conductors), Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra & National Symphony Orchestra, Petronas Philharmonic Hall, Kuala Lumpur, 22.08.2015 (RP)

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Kuala Lumpur, Rick Perdian Leave a comment

Organists Offer a Kalaidescope of Sounds and Styles at Victoria Concert Hall

28/08/201521/08/2015 by Rick Perdian

 SingaporeSingapore Various: VCH Organ Series 2015/16, Phoon Yu and Alexia Tye, Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore 17.08.2015 (RP)Singapore-500

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts, Previously Published Tags Rick Perdian, Singapore Leave a comment
  • Page 86 of 89
  • <
  • 1
  • ...
  • 80
  • 81
  • 82
  • 83
  • 84
  • 85
  • 86
  • 87
  • 88
  • 89
  • >
Older posts
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 … Page85 Page86 Page87 … Page89 Next →

SEARCH THE SITE

CHOOSE A WEEK TO VIEW

CHOOSE A MONTH TO VIEW

TOP 5 SEEN AND HEARD POSTS

  • Music by Benjamin and Messiaen is a brave start to this year’s London Piano Festival
  • Elim Chan leads the San Francisco Symphony in a powerful John Adams symphony
  • Voices of Ascension explores war, mortality and the consolation of music
  • Youl Sun: speed, force, accuracy – but only flashes of poetry
  • A feast of Czech music from Ehnes, Edusei and the Philharmonia

RECENT COMMENTS

  • Del Pickard on Torrential Tchaikovsky, seismic Shostakovich: Seong-Jin Cho, Rouvali and the Philharmonia at the RFH
  • Stephen Skinner on A feast of Czech music from Ehnes, Edusei and the Philharmonia
  • Anonymous on An ornate, obscure Carmen at the Los Angeles Opera
  • Steve Schack on Sequentia brings a chilling ‘The Wanderer’ to Columbus
  • Laurence on Breathtaking Brahms, malignant Manfred: Fischer, Gardner and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall

SEEN AND HEARD'S RECENT REVIEWS

  • Music by Benjamin and Messiaen is a brave start to this year’s London Piano Festival (31/10/2026)
__________________________________
  • Elim Chan leads the San Francisco Symphony in a powerful John Adams symphony (31/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Voices of Ascension explores war, mortality and the consolation of music (31/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Youl Sun: speed, force, accuracy – but only flashes of poetry (31/10/2026) __________________________________
  • A feast of Czech music from Ehnes, Edusei and the Philharmonia (30/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra contrast the fascinating new with the familiar old (30/10/2026) __________________________________
  • In Edinburgh SCO have a Weill of a time, and in Schulhoff and Barber too (30/10/2026) __________________________________
  • A Brew to a Kill – ale’s well that ends well – or is it? (29/10/2026) __________________________________
  • A sparkling revival of Rossini’s L’equivoco stravagante at Wexford (28/10/2026) __________________________________
  • An ornate, obscure Carmen at the Los Angeles Opera (28/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Ensemble Connect serves up mostly rhythmically vibrant, earthy, virtuosic Hungarian fare (28/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Countertenor Iestyn Davies and harpist Oliver Wass find the high ground in Berkeley (27/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Batiashvili, Capuçon and Thibaudet explore different corners of the piano trio repertoire (27/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Benjamin Beilman and the Pasadena Symphony are brilliant in Barber (27/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Steve Reich’s music from several decades makes a strong mark in a Berkeley tribute (27/10/2026) __________________________________
  • INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, NEWS, AND SEASON PREVIEWS

    • Rick Perdian in conversation with composer Alex Weiser (24/10/2026)
    __________________________________
  • Rick Perdian in conversation with general director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera Khori Dastoor (19/10/2026) __________________________________
  • (P)review of Scottish Ballet and Forest of Black’s These Violent Delights in cinemas soon (14/10/2026) __________________________________
  • First highlights for Nevill Holt Festival 2027 (09/10/2026) __________________________________
  • (P)review of ENB’s The Sleeping Beauty film: ideal viewing for those new to ballet (05/10/2026) __________________________________
  • Gregor Tassie in conversation with Czech opera director Jiří Nekvasil (03/10/2026) __________________________________
  • 21st Malcolm Arnold Festival in Northampton (24 October) and Live-stream Day (1 November) (27/09/2026) __________________________________
  • The Met: Live in HD 2026-27 season starts with Così fan tutte on 3 October (24/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Gregor Tassie in conversation with conductor Viliana Valtcheva (19/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Manfred Honeck is the new Principal Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra from September 2028 (19/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Chelsea Opera Group return with Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet in November (18/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Hampstead Garden Opera return with Bellini’s La sonnambula in November (18/09/2026) __________________________________
  • What The World Needs Now – The Burt Bacharach Songbook returns for eight more performance in October (14/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Beczała and Grigorian herald the new Vienna State Opera season in grand gala style (11/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Patrick Lange is Opera North’s Music Director designate (10/09/2026) __________________________________
  • Follow us

    Copyright © 2026 Seen and Heard International | All rights reserved |Privacy Policy
    imunify-bot-check
    We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.