Festivals

BBC SSO’s inspired coupling of Pergolesi and Stravinsky at the BBC Proms

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2021 [4] – Pergolesi, Stravinsky: Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Simon Shibambu (bass-baritone), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.8.2021. (CC)

[l-r] Benjamin Hulett, Carolyn Sampson, Martyn Brabbins &  Simon Shimbabu (c) Chris Christodoulou

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Bayerische Staatsoper’s The Turning Point: in Munich is it the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?

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GermanyGermany Munich Opera Festival 2021 – The Turning Point: A Final Evening of Endings and Beginnings: Soloists, Nikolaus Bachler (recitation), Bayerisches Staatsorchester / Ivor Bolton, Asher Fisch, Kent Nagano, Kirill Petrenko (conductors). Performance of 30.7.2021 at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper and streamed (directed by Christoph Engel) from 3.8. to 10.8.2021. (JPr)

Ivor Bolton conducts Christian Gerhaher singing ‘Possente spirto’ 

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A trio of symphonies from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom BBC Proms 2021 [3] – Gipps, Adès, Brahms: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Gražinytė-Tyla (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 5.8.2021. (CS)

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou

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Nevill Holt’s La traviata – an astonishing achievement, full of emerging talent

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Nevill Holt Opera 2021 [1] – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, chorus and Manchester Camerata / Nicholas Chalmers (conductor). Nevill Holt, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 5.8.2021. (CP)

Susana Gaspar (Violetta) & Luis Gomes (Alfredo) (c) Lloyd Winters

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