Festival 2024 – Page 22 – Seen and Heard International

Garsington Opera’s impressively alert Un giorno di regno should keep you amused and absorbed

03/08/202404/07/2024 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2024 [4] – Verdi, Un giorno di regno: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Chris Hopkins (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 1.7.2024. (CR)

Christine Rice as La Marchesa del Poggio © Julian Guidera

Sofia Opera’s latest Ring cycle closes with superlative stagings of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung

03/08/202403/07/2024 by Gregor Tassie

Bulgaria Wagner, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Evan-Alexis Christ (conductor). Sofia Opera, 18 & 20.6.2024. (GT)

An entertaining and stimulating The Magic Flute from Wild Arts at Thaxted

03/08/202402/07/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Thaxted Festival 2024 [2] – Mozart Die Zauberflöte (sung in English, translated by Jeremy Sams, abridged): Soloists, Orchestra / Orlando Jopling (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, 30.6.2024. (CC)

Sofia Opera’s revived Ring cycle continues with a terrific Die Walküre

03/08/202401/07/2024 by Gregor Tassie

Bulgaria Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Evan-Alexis Christ (conductor). Sofia Opera, 16.6.2024. (GT)

Opus13 prove to be the big discovery of the East Neuk Festival 2024

03/08/202401/07/2024 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Various, East Neuk Festival 2024 [2]: (SRT)

East Neuk Festival 2024 – Opus 13 © Neil Hanna

Pianist Kawamura and the Dorics prove Crail Parish Church the ‘perfect place for chamber music’

03/08/202429/06/2024 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Various, East Neuk Festival 2024 [1]: Crail Parish Church, Fife. (SRT)

Hisako Kawamura playing in Crail Parish Church © Neil Hanna

Sofia Opera’s revival of Das Rheingold has more colourful visual splendours backed by magnificent singing

03/08/202429/06/2024 by Gregor Tassie

Bulgaria Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, ‘Talasumche’ Children’s Vocal and Drama Foundation, Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Evan-Alexis Christ (conductor). Sofia Opera, 15.6.2024. (GT)

Sofia Opera and Ballet’s *Das Rheingold*

Beethoven’s path to greatness with the Ehnes Quartet at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival

03/08/202428/06/2024 by Laurence Vittes

Canada Beethoven, Montreal Chamber Music Festival 2024: Ehnes Quartet (James Ehnes, Amy Schwartz Moretti [violin], Che-Yen Chen [viola], Edward Arron [cello]), Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt (viola). Bourgie Hall, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. (LV)