Japan Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor), Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo, 7.12.2013 (RP)
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A Jolly Opera Colourfully Staged and Well Sung
United Kingdom Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore (sung in Italian with surtitles in English): Soloists, RNCM Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Francesco Pasqualetti (conductor), RNCM Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, 8.12.2013. (RJF)
Winter Warmth from Manze, Brautigam and the RLPO
United Kingdom Schubert, Schumann, Purcell arr. Manze & Britten, Mozart: Ronald Brautigam (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Manze (conductor), Guild Hall, City of Preston, 8.12.2013 (MC)
Classic Film of Wagner’s Dutchman Revived
United Kingdom Wagner, The Flying Dutchman (Director Joachim Herz’s 1964 B&W film Der fliegende Holländer), Soloists, Leipzig Opera Choir, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester / Rolf Leuter (conductor), Screened in association with Wagner 200 at the Barbican Cinema, London, 7.12.2013. (JPr)
Innovative Fidelio May Not Be to All Tastes
Switzerland Beethoven: Fidelio Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Conductor: Fabio Luisi, Zurich Opera, Zurich. 8.12.2013. (JR)
Musical Energy
Italy Schubert and Scriabin Evgeny Kissin (piano) Schubert, Sonata in D op 53 D850; Scriabin, Sonata-fantasia no 2 in G sharp minor op 19 and Seven Studies from the Twelve Studies, op 8. Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome. 05.12.2013 (JB)
Jordan Comes Home
Switzerland Mussorgsky, Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky: Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, François-Frédéric Guy (piano), Philippe Jordan, (conductor), Tonhalle Zurich, 5-12-2013 (JR)
Llandaff Cathedral Proves to be the Ideal Setting for Welsh Sinfonia and Young Musicians
United Kingdom Adams, Morfydd Owen, Vaughan Williams, Barber, Pärt, Elgar: Welsh Sinfonia, members of National Youth Orchestra of Wales, Mark Eager (conductor). Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff. 7.12.2013 (PCG)