Italy Lalo and Tchaikovsky. Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Conductor, Vasily Petrenko. Ray Chen (violin) Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome. 21.11.2015 (JB)
Jack Buckley
Beethoven Life and Music
Italy Spontini, Beethoven: Orchestra dell’ Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano. Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome. 10.10.2015 (JB)
Beethoven Contemporaneous wth Francesconi’s Admirable Sense of Theatre
Italy Luca Francesconi, Beethoven: Orchestra and Chorus of Santa Cecilia. Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano, Chorus Master, Ciro Visco. Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano) Rachel Willis-Sorensen (soprano) Adriana Di Paola (contralto) Stuart Skelton (tenor) Michael Volle (bass). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome. 03.10.2015 (JB)
Trashing Mexico at Rome’s Santa Cecilia
Italy de Falla, Paganini, Mexican Trash: The Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Rivero with Massimo Quarta (violin) and Jose Luis Ordonez and Liuvia Ruelas (vocalists). A Santa Cecilia concert at Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome. 14.9.2015 (JB)
Where the Music Takes You (or Don’t Let the Music Talk Politics)
Italy Beethoven, Dvorak, Khachaturian. Filarmonica della Scala, conductor, Daniel Harding, Alessandro Taverna (piano). A Santa Cecilia concert at Sala Sinopoli, Parco della Musica Rome as part of the With You Armenia Centennial 05-09-2015 (JB)
The Unhappy Deception at the Rossini Opera Festival
Italy Rossini Opera Festival (3): L’Inganno Felice: Orchestra Sinfonica G Rossini, Conductor, Denis Vlasenko. Stage Director, Graham Vick (his 1994 staging) with sets and costumes of Richard Hudson and Projections of Matthew Richardson. Teatro Rossini, Pesaro 15.8.2015 (JB)
c Giacomo Mariotti
Singers Chosen by the Gods
Rossini Opera Festival (2): Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini, Chorus of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Chorus Master, Andrea Faidutti; Conductor, Donato Renzetti. Jessica Pratt (soprano), Viktoria Yarovaya (mezzosoprano), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Dempsey Rivera (tenor), Mirco Palazzi (bass). Adriatic Arena, Pesaro. 15.8.2015 (JB) Rossini: Messa di Gloria Il Piano d’Armonia sulla morte d’Orfeo La morte di Didone It … Read more
Only Half Joking
Italy Rossini Opera Festival (4) La Gazza Ladra. Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Communale Bologna, Chorus Master, Andrea Faidutti, Conductor, Donato Renzetti; Staging by Damiano Michieletto with sets by Paolo Fantin, Cotumes by Carla Teti and Lighting by Alessandro Carletti. Adriatic Arena, Pesaro. 16.8.2015 (JB)
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