Diana Damrau Shines in an Otherwise Uneven Lucia di Lammermoor

 Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Bayerische Staatsoper Orchestra and Chorus, Oksana Lyniv (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 25.7.2015 (JMI)   Cast: Lucia: Diana Damrau Edgardo: Pavol Breslik Enrico: Dalibor Jenis Raimondo: Alexander Tsymbaliuk Arturo: Emmanuele D’Aguanno Alisa: Rachel Wilson Normanno: Dean Power Production: Bayerische Staatsoper Direction: Barbara Wysocka Sets: Barbara Hanicka Costumes: Julia Kornacka Lighting: Rainer Casper I’m … Read more

‘The Play’s the Thing’: Shakespeare and Mendelssohn Combine to Excellent Effect

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2015 – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn: Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Anna Sideris (soprano), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano), Chorus and Orchestra of Garsington Opera / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 22.7.2015 (JPr)

Garsington Opera RSC Ross Armstrong Joan Iyiola Forbes Masson Simon Manyonda Hedydo Dylan Marty Cruickshank credit Mark Douet
Ross Armstrong,  Joan Iyiola,  Forbes Masson  Simon Manyonda, Hedydo Dylan, and Marty Cruickshank (c) Mark Douet

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