Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2020 preview concert
13/11/2019
United Kingdom Huw Watkins, Michael Zev Gordon, John Luther Adams, Helen Grime: Huw Watkins (piano), David Adams (violin and viola), Matthew Hunt (clarinet). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 12.11.2019. (PCG) Read more
Conor Mitchell’s powerful new music drama, packing a political punch, is staged in Belfast
12/11/2019
United Kingdom Conor Mitchell, Abomination: A DUP Opera: The Belfast Ensemble / Tom Brady (conductor). Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 8.11.2019. (RB)
Abomination: A DUP Opera (c) The Belfast Ensemble
A novel and imaginative double bill at Wexford Festival Opera
04/11/2019
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [3] – Andrew Synnott, Rossini: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Michele Spotti (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, 27.10. 2019. (RB)
Adina (c) Clive Barda
A look back at some events of the 2019 Oxford Lieder Festival
02/11/2019
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [5] – various composers: Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Joseph Middleton (piano), and others. Oxford various venues, 12 to 26.10.2019. (RD)
Balance issues and uneven singing compromise a handsome Vivaldi production in Wexford
01/11/2019
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [2] – Vivaldi, Dorilla in Tempe: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Andrea Marchiol (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, 26.10.2019. (RB)
Rosa Bove (Filindo), with dancers (c) Clive Barda
An outstanding production of Massenet’s Don Quichotte by Wexford Festival Opera
30/10/2019
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [1] – Massenet, Don Quichotte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Timothy Myers (conductor), Wexford Opera House, Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford, 25.10.2019. (RB)
Aigul Akhmetshina and Goderdz Janelidze (c) Clive Barda
Two impressive Messiaen concerts at the Oxford Lieder Festival
28/10/2019
Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [4] – Messiaen: (CR) Read more
A persuasive recital by Dorothea Röschmann at the Oxford Lieder Festival
27/10/2019
Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [3] – Mendelssohn, Wolf, Mahler, Schumann & Wagner: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano). St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford 25.10.2019. (CR)
Dorothea Röschmann © Harald Hoffmann
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