Canada 2020 VSO New Music Festival [1] (GN)
The joys of ‘(re)-creation’ guide Vancouver’s 2020 New Music Festival
Festivals
Daniel Barenboim and the Vienna Philharmonic treat Salzburg to a Mozart concert of near-perfection
Austria Salzburg Mozartwoche [2] – Mozart: Radek Baborák (horn), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Barenboim (piano, conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 25.1.2020. (MB)
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe Soloists play Mozart in Salzburg with distinction and affection
Salzburg Mozartwoche [1] – Mozart: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Soloists. Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 25.1.2020. (MB) Mozart – Divertimento in B-flat major for two oboes, two horns, and two bassoons, KV 270; Divertimento in D major for two violins, viola, double bass, oboe, and two horns, ‘Nannerl Septet’, KV 251; Divertimento in E-flat major for … Read more
Unusual programme enlivens Cartagena Music Festival
Colombia Martinus, Pinzón, Victoria: Santiago Cañón–Valencia (cello), Orquesta de Cámara de Colombia / Federico Hoyos (conductor), Julio Victoria Live Band. Auditorio Getsemaní, Cartagena, Columbia, 11.1.2020. (LV)
(c) Diego Vega
Silesian Theater Opava’s Freudian Der Freischütz at the Opera 2020 Festival in Prague
Czech Republic Weber, Der Freischütz: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Silesian Theater Opava / Vojtěch Spurný (conductor). Estates Theater Prague, 7.1.2020. (SS)
Olomouc Ensemble Shines in Quirky Così fan tutte at Prague’s Opera 2020 Festival
Czech Republic Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Moravian Theater Olomouc / Miloslav Oswald (conductor). Moravian Theater Olomouc guest performance, Estates Theater Prague, 6.1.2020. (SS)
A diabolical double bill of Rachmaninoff at Prague’s Opera 2020 Festival
Czech Republic Rachmaninoff, Francesca da Rimini & The Miserly Knight: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the F. X. Šalda Theater Liberec / Martin Doubravský (conductor), F. X. Šalda Theater guest performance, Národní Divadlo Prague, 5.1.2020. (SS)
Donizetti’s Pietro il Grande done in the Rossini style at the Bergamo Festival
Italy Festival Donizetti Opera 2019 [3] – Donizetti, Pietro il Grande: Coro Donizetti Opera, Orchestra Gli originali / Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor), Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, 23.11.2019. (JMI)
