Glyndebourne’s Proms Pelléas Baffles Watching Audience, Enchants Listeners at Home
18/07/2018
Prom 5 – Debussy: Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.7.2018. (JPr)
Christina Gansch (Mélisande), Christopher Purves (Golaud) & John Chest (Pelléas)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
Vilde Frang in Revelatory Britten at the Blossom Music Festival
17/07/2018
2018 Blossom Music Festival [2] – Britten, Schumann: Vilde Frang (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / John Storgårds (conductor), Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 15.7.2018. (MSJ)
John Storgårds (c) Heikki Tulli
The Bayerische Staatsoper Festival Continues with Le nozze di Figaro
16/07/2018
Munich Opera Festival 2018 [4] – Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Bayerische Staatsoper Chorus and Orchestra / Constantinos Carydis (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 15.7.2018. (JMI)
Le nozze di Figaro © W. Hösl
Puccini’s Il trittico Triumphs in Munich under the Baton of Kirill Petrenko
16/07/2018
Munich Opera Festival 2018 [3] – Puccini, Il trittico: Bayerische Staatsoper Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 14.7. 2018. (JMI)
From the first scene of Il tabarro © W. Hösl
Aspen 3: Trifonov’s Chopin Tribute, a Sublime Emerson Quartet, and a Rossini Favorite
15/07/2018
Alan Privett’s Production of Ariadne is Another Huge Longborough Success
15/07/2018
Longborough Festival Opera 2018 [2] – Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Anthony Negus (conductor), Longborough, 13.7.2018. (CP)
LFO’s Ariadne auf Naxos (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis
Aspen 2: Gypsy Fun from Finckel and Han
14/07/2018
Various composers: Aspen Music Festival 2018 [2]
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A Joyous Tanglewood Concert for Dark Times
14/07/2018
2018 Tanglewood – Brahms and Shostakovich: Rudoph Buchbinder (Piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, MA, 8.7.2018. (CSa)
Tanglewood 2018 – BSO, Andris Nelsons (conductor) & Rudolf Buchbinder (piano) (c) Hilary Scott
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