Much-Anticipated US Premiere of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane at Bard’s SummerScape Opera

United StatesUnited States Korngold, Das Wunder der Heliane: Soloists, Bard Festival Chorale, The American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor), SummerScape Opera, Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 26.8.2019. (RP)

Das Wunder der Heliane (c) Stephanie Berger.

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Edward Gardner Leads a Dramatic Verdi Requiem at the Three Choirs Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival (3) – Verdi:  Hye-Youn Lee (soprano). Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), James Platt (bass), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 28.7.2019. (JQ)

Edward Gardner conducts the Verdi Requiem (c) Michael Whitefoot

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Faust Damned in Electrifying Fashion at the 2019 Three Choirs Festival

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Three Choirs Festival [2] – Berlioz: Susan Bickley (Marguerite), Peter Hoare (Faust), Christopher Purves (Méphistophélès), David Ireland (Brander), Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Choristers of Gloucester Cathedral, Philharmonia Orchestra / Adrian Partington (conductor). Gloucester Cathedral, 27.7.2019. (JQ)

La damnation de Faust at the 2019 Three Choirs Festival
(c) Michael Whitefoot

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Superlative Benedetti, Immaculate Wigglesworth, and Highly Efficient NYO

United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC PROM 12 – Lera Auerbach, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev: Nicola Benedetti (violin), National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 27.7.2019. (AS)

Nicola Benedetti (violin), NYO & Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) (c) Chris Christodoulou

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