Festival 2023 – Page 20 – Seen and Heard International

Garsington Opera’s The Bartered Bride gets a rather more muted revival

05/07/202301/07/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [3] – Bedřich Smetana, The Bartered Bride: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra / Jac van Steen (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 30.6.2023. (CR)

Garsington Opera’s *The Bartered Bride* © Alice Pennefather

Fretwork’s discerning anniversary tribute to William Byrd for Temple Music

05/07/202301/07/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom William Byrd Festival [2] – Byrd and Weelkes: Fretwork, Temple Church, London, 30.6.2023. (MB)

Temple Music’s memorable celebration of William Byrd by Stile Antico

05/07/202301/07/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom William Byrd Festival [1] – Byrd, Morley, Philips, and Tomkins, ‘England’s Nightingale’: Stile Antico, Temple Church, London, 29.6.2023. (MB)

A musically excellent Hamlet opens the 2023 Munich Opera Festival

05/07/202329/06/2023 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany Brett Dean, Hamlet: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Opera / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 25.6.2023. (ALL)

Despite some world-class singing, Grange Park Opera’s new Tristan und Isolde misses the boat

05/07/202324/06/2023 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus of Grange Park Opera, The Gascoigne Orchestra / Stephen Barlow (conductor). Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, 22.6.2023. (JPr)

Grange Park Opera *Tristan und Isolde* (Act I) © Marc Brenner

Royal Northern Sinfonia, the UK’s only full-time chamber orchestra, lifts Nevill Holt Opera’s La Cenerentola

05/07/202324/06/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Nevill Holt Opera 2023 – Rossini, La Cenerentola: Soloists, Royal Northern Sinfonia / Dionysis Grammenos (conductor). Nevill Holt, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 23.6.2023. (CP)

Nevill Holt Opera’s *La Cenerentola ©* Genevieve Girling

Longborough’s L’elisir d’amore excitingly transfers from a Basque to a Cotswold village

05/07/202323/06/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2023 [2] – Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Longborough Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Alice Farnham (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 20.6.2022. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *L’elisir d’amore* © Matthew Williams-Ellis

The Michael Wollny Trio offered an unforgettable experience at the Dresden Music Festival

05/07/202323/06/2023 by Colin Clarke

Germany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [16] – 12.6.2023, Kulturpalast, Dresden; Michael Wollny Trio (Michael Wollny [piano], Tim Lefebvre [double bass/guitar/synth], Eric Schaefer [drums]). (CC)

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