United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert & Sullivan Touring Company, The Plaza Theatre, Stockport, 9.7.2014. (RJW)
A Piratical Performance at Stockport’s Plaza Theatre
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Cape Town Opera Captures Magic of Show Boat
United Kingdom Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II: Show Boat: Soloists, Cape Town Opera Chorus, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, 8.7.2014 (MC)
Sibelius Pyrotechnics, Followed by Actual Fireworks
United States Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Dvořák: Augustin Hadelich (violin), Cleveland Orchestra, Hans Graf (conductor) Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 05.07.2014 (MSJ)
A Golden Evening for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Rooster
United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, Le Coq d’Or (The Golden Cockerel): Dancers, Singers, Chorus and Orchestra of the Moscow State Music Theatre for Young Audience named after Natalia Sats / Alevtina Ioffe. (conductor), London Coliseum, London, 8.7.2014. (JPr).
Jun Hwi Cho Wins Joyce B. Cowin First Prize At The Seventh New York International Piano Competition
Jun Hwi Cho Of Seoul, South Korea Wins Joyce B. Cowin First Prize At The Seventh New York International Piano Competition
New English Ballet Theatre Save the Best till Last
United Kingdom Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos et al, Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal: New English Ballet Theatre, Peacock Theatre, London, 5.7.2014 (J.O’D)
Four Fistfuls of a Lunchtime Concert at Cardiff
United Kingdom Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Rachmaninov: David Doidge (piano) and Seho Lee (piano), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff , 4.7.2014 (LJ).
CBSO Season Ends Magnificently with Janáček and Bartók
United Kingdom Janáček and Bartók: Michelle DeYoung (soprano), Gábor Bretz (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner, (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham 2.7.2014.