Offenbach , Les contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Frankfurter Museumsorchester, Frankfurt Opera Chorus. Conductor: Hartmut Keil. Oper Frankfurt 15. 4.2011 (JMI)
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Cav and Pag at Barcelona’s Liceu
P. Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana and R.Leoncavallo, I Pagliacci: Soloists, Orquestra Simfònica y Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu. Conductor: Daniele Callegari. Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. 11,12 and 13. 4.2011. (JMI)
London Diaghilev Festival (2) Le Pavillion d’Armide, L’Après-midi d’un Faune and Boléro
Diaghilev Festival (2) Le Pavillion d’Armide, L’Après-midi d’un Faune and Boléro, with music by Tcherepnin, Debussy and Ravel: Guest soloists and dancers of the Kremlin Ballet Company, St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Titov. London Coliseum, London, 16.4.2011. (JPr)
Gianandrea Noseda Bows Out with Verdi’s Otello
Verdi, Otello : (Concert Performance). BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 16.4.2011 (RJF)
The Tsar’s Bride at The Royal Opera
Rimsky-Korsakov, The Tsar’s Bride: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: Renato Balsadonna), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 14.4.2011 (MB)
Heritage Opera’s Così fan tutte
Mozart, Così fan tutte : (Opera buffa in two acts, K.588 (1790) Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. English translation by Chris Gill 2006, revised 2010): Heritage Opera, Haigh Hall, Wigan, Lancashire: 15.4.2010 (MC)
The Edinburgh Youth Orchestra play Berlioz,Bartók and Shostakovich
Edinburgh Youth Orchestra: Joanna MacGregor (piano), Sian Edwards (Conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 17. 4.2011 (SRT)
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Oliver Knussen
Mussorgsky/Knussen, Schumann, Debussy: Anssi Karttunen (cello), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 16.4.2011 (SRT)