Festivals

While the production lacks magic, vocally and musically, Glyndebourne’s Alcina is a triumph

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2022 [3] – Handel Alcina (1735, ed. Flesch): Soloists, Dancers, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Jonathan Cohen (conductor) with Tom Foster (harpsichord continuo). Glyndebourne Opera House, Sussex, 2.7.2022. (CC)

Samantha Hankey (Ruggiero) and dancers © Tristram Kenton

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The Vienna Chamber Orchestra and a troupe of fun-loving virtuosos at the Festival de Música dos Capuchos

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PortugalPortugal Festival de Música dos Capuchos – Mozart, Haydn: Diana Tishchenko (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Victor Julien-Laferrière (cello), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro (piano), Vienna Chamber Orchestra / Victor Julien-Laferrière (conductor). Watched on private video feeds provided by the Festival from the Grande Auditório Universidade Nova FCT (Caparica), Almada, Portugal, 17 & 18.6.2022.  (LV)

Victor Julien-Laferrière playing Haydn with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra © Festival de Música dos Capuchos

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Rachel Nicholls’s remarkable versatility in Die tote Stadt delivers another Longborough success

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2022 [2] – Korngold, Die tote Stadt: Soloists, Longborough Youth Chorus (pre-recorded), Longborough Festival Orchestra / Justin Brown (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 25.6.2022. (CP)

Luci Briginshaw (Juliette), Stephanie Windsor-Lewis (Brigitta/Lucienne), Alexander Sprague (Victorin/Gaston), Lee David Bowen (Graf Albert) (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

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