United Kingdom LIVE From London Spring: VOCES8 with Jonathan Dove (piano). Livestreamed from VOCES8 Centre, London, 13.2.2021. (CC)
The VOCES8 of Spring is an auspicious start to their new LIVE From London festival
Broadcasts and Film
John Holiday premieres Tyshawn Sorey’s Save the Boys for Opera Philadelphia
United States Tyshawn Sorey, Save the Boys: John Holiday (countertenor), Grant Loehnig (piano). Opera Philadelphia, Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia. Available on Opera Philadelphia Channel through 31.5.2021. (RP)
Lawrence Cummings inextricably links music and dance in his mouthwatering concert with the Academy of Ancient Music
United Kingdom Georg Muffat, J. S. Bach, Telemann, Handel, AAM LIVE 2021 Suonare è danzare: Academy of Ancient Music / Lawrence Cummings (director/harpsichord); Bojan Čičíć (violin). Performed at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge, and livestreamed (click here) on 12.2.2021. (CC)
Bonus delights from Cleveland and London
United States In Focus / Bonus Episode 1: Sonata and Serenade: Mitsuko Uchida (piano), Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London (January 2021); Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio (November 2020, reviewed as a video stream). (MSJ)
This magnificently polished musical Das Rheingold is a striking success for Anthony Negus and Melbourne Opera
Australia Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Melbourne Opera Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Livestream from the Regent Theatre, Melbourne, 7.2.2021. (JPr)
From Venice to a Philadelphia screen: a magical evocation of nature and humankind
United States Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons): Gil Shaham (conductor and violinist), Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded at Verizon Hall in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, in November 2020, and reviewed from a 6.2.2021 WHYY TV broadcast. (BJ)
Anna Netrebko’s vocal opulence matches her surroundings in a disappointing ‘Day and Night’ Met recital
Austria Met Stars Live in Concert – Anna Netrebko (soprano) with Pavel Nebolsin (piano): Elena Maximova (mezzo-soprano). Livestreamed (directed by Gary Halvorson) from the Spanish Riding School, Vienna, 6.2.2021. (JPr)
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SF Opera allows a reappraisal of Daniel Slater’s convincing 2012 Lohengrin with Brandon Jovanovich, Camilla Nylund and Petra Lang
United States Wagner, Lohengrin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). 2012 performance at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, streamed over the weekend 6-7.2.2021. (JPr)
