Time-travelling Gothic melodrama from Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton at the Oxford Lieder Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [2]: Six Songs of Melmouth – Schubert, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Satie, Poldowski, Walton: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford (live stream), 13.10.2020. (CS)

Joseph Middleton and Carolyn Sampson (photo courtesy of Oxford Lieder Festival)

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‘Hafez in Song’: Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake at the Oxford Lieder Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival [1]: The Western-Eastern Divan – Schubert, Henze, Wolf, Mahler: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Holywell Music Room, Oxford (live stream), 11.10.2020. (CS)

Ian Bostridge (photo courtesy of Oxford Lieder Festival)

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Brooklyn Art Song Society opens its digital season with Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin

United StatesUnited States Brooklyn Art Song Society – Schubert I: Tyler Duncan (baritone), Erika Switzer (piano). Brooklyn Art Song Society, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn. Live stream viewed on 10.10.2020. (RP)

Tyler Duncan © Tatiana Daubek

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François Girard’s static, drab, and unevenly cast Met Der fliegende Holländer

United StatesUnited States Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Valery Gergiev (conductor). Performance recorded on 10.3.2020 (directed by Gary Halvorson) and reviewed as Met Opera on Demand. (JPr)

Anja Kampe (Senta) in Act II Der fliegende Holländer
(c) Ken Howard/Met Opera

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Louise Alder and Roger Vignoles bring a sophisticated programme of songs at Wigmore Hall to life

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Fanny Mendelssohn, Berg, Bizet, Poulenc, Satie: Louise Alder (soprano), Roger Vignoles (piano), with Julien Van Mellaerts (baritone, Les mamelles de Tirésias). Wigmore Hall, 9.10.2020, reviewed on Wigmore Hall’s YouTube. (CC)

Louise Alder (soprano) and Roger Vignoles (piano)

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The Royal Ballet: Back on Stage and dancing back into our hearts

United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Royal Ballet: Back on Stage: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jonathan Lo (conductor). Live-streamed from the Royal Opera House, London, 9.10.2020. (JPr)

Marianela Nuñez (Kitri) and Vadim Muntagirov (Basilio) in Don Quixote Act III pas de deux (c) Tristram Kenton

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