Radvanovsky is the Medea of the 2020s in David McVicar’s visceral Met production

United StatesUnited States Met: Live in HD – Cherubini’s Medea: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Gary Halvorson) to the Barbican Cinema, London, 22.10.2022. (CC)

Sondra Radvanovsky as Medea © Marty Sohl/The Met Opera

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Ailyn Pérez and Juan Diego Flórez star in Richard Jones’s enthralling Covent Garden La bohème

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Kevin John Edusei (conductor). Broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 20.10.2022. (JPr)

La bohème Act II © Marc Brenner

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Daniel Harding conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in an enlightening concert

GermanyGermany Unsuk Chin, R. Strauss, Vaughan Williams: Andrew Staples (tenor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Livestreamed on Digital Concert Hall from the Philharmonie Berlin, 15.10.2022. (GT)

Daniel Harding conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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Asmik Grigorian’s standout Jenůfa in a Vienna revival with no weak link in the cast

AustriaAustria Janáček, Jenůfa: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from Vienna State Opera, 15.10.2022. (JPr)

Kostelnička (Eliška Weissová) and Asmik Grigorian (Jenůfa) © Michael Pöhn

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NT Live’s Jack Absolute Flies Again was wonderfully farcical and funny

United KingdomUnited Kingdom National Theatre’s Jack Absolute Flies Again (by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris and based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals): Filmed (directed by Tony Grech-Smith) at the Olivier Theatre, London, and screened by National Theatre Live at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 6.10.2022. (JPr)

Laurie Davidson (Jack Absolute) and Peter Forbes (Sir Anthony Absolute) © Brinkhoff Moegenburg

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Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling remains a wonderful company showcase for the Royal Ballet

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels (conductor). Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and relayed to Cineworld Basildon, Essex. 5.10.2022. (JPr)

Natalia Osipova (Mary Vetsera) and Ryoichi Hirano (Prince Rudolf) © Helen Maybanks

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