Broadcasts and Film

The sun shines on Nadine Sierra, Liparit Avetisyan and Ambrogio Maestri in the L’elisir d’amore revival

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sesto Quatrini (conductor). Recorded live (directed by Rhodri Huw) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 5.10.2023 and viewed at the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 9.10.2023. (JPr)

Nadine Sierra (Adina) and Liparit Avetisyan (Nemorino) © Clive Barda

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After four decades Il trittico returns to Vienna State Opera in a new staging by Tatjana Gürbaca

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AustriaAustria Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from the Vienna State Opera, 7.10.2023. (JPr)

Il tabarro © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

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Feast of fine singing from Kaufmann, Yoncheva and Tézier at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2023

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ItalyItaly Jonas Kaufmann at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2023 [4]: Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Arena di Verona Orchestra / Jochen Rieder (conductor). Recorded at Arena di Verona (directed by Henning Karsten) on 20.8.2023 and released by CinemaLive to be shown in cinemas on 12 October (for information click here). (JPr)

(l-r) Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) and Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) singing Ennio Morricone’s ‘Nella fantasia’

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Barrie Kosky’s Das Rheingold for the Royal Opera is a miscast, misconceived, mishmash of ideas

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to Cineworld Basildon, 20.9.2023. (JPr)

Christopher Purves (Alberich) and the Rhinemaidens © Monika Rittershaus

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Vienna State Ballet’s season opener Don Quixote revival does Rudolf Nureyev proud

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AustriaAustria Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote: Dancers of Vienna State Ballet, Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Robert Reimer (conductor). Transmitted live (directed by Balázs Delbó) from the Vienna State Opera, 16.9.2023. (JPr)

Zsolt Török (l, Don Quixote), Liudmila Konovalova (centre, Dulcinea) and Olga Esina (r, The Queen of the Dryads) © Wiener Staatsballett/Ashley Taylor

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A kaleidoscope of music at the BBC Proms from Elena Urioste and Tadaaki Otaka’s BBC NOW

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 7 – Rachmaninoff, Coleridge-Taylor, Beethoven: Elena Urioste (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Tadaaki Otaka (conductor). Recorded (directed by Seren Irvine) for BBC TV on 19.7.2023. (JPr)

Tadaaki Otaka conducts the BBC NOW © BBC/Andy Paradise

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BBC Proms 2023 begin with thoughts of Ukrainian resistance undermined by an odd choice of music

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Prom 1 – First Night of the Proms: Lesley Manville (actor), Paul Lewis (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Dalia Stasevska (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by John Williams) from the Royal Albert Hall, London, 14.7.2023. (JPr)

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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