Spain F. Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites, Orchestra Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chorus Opera Bordeaux, Nader Abassi (conductor), Bordeaux Grand Thèàtre, 10.2.2012(JMI)
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Hardworking Maestro Temporarily Winding Down
Finland Göran Forsling talks to Mikko Franck
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Freshly Rendered
United States Vivaldi and Handel: Emma McGrath (violin and leader), Seattle Symphony, Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 8.3.2013 (BJ)
A Fine Celebration of Purcell – Man of the Theatre
United Kingdom Purcell: Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Robert Davies (baritone), The Early Vocal Consort of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Badinerie, Simon Jones (violin and director), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 08.03.2013 (GPu)
Netrebko’s Windy City Debut
United States Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Emmanuel Villaume (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 9.3.2013 (JLZ)
Illuminating Singing of Britten by Bostridge
United Kingdom Elgar, Britten: Ian Bostridge (tenor) City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Michael Seal (conductor) Symphony Hall, Birmingham 6.3.2013. (CT)
An Entertaining but Perplexing Staging of The Flying Dutchman
United States Richard Wagner, The Fying Duthchman: LA Opera, James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, (9.03.2013) (JRo)
Russian Ballet Pyrotechnics in Homage to Nijinsky
United Kingdom Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2013: Vaslav Nijinsky: Soloists, Orchestra of English National Ballet / Valery Ovsyaikov (conductor), London Coliseum, 10.3.2013. (JOD)