An outstanding production of Massenet’s Don Quichotte by Wexford Festival Opera
30/10/2019
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [1] – Massenet, Don Quichotte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Timothy Myers (conductor), Wexford Opera House, Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford, 25.10.2019. (RB)
Aigul Akhmetshina and Goderdz Janelidze (c) Clive Barda
Two impressive Messiaen concerts at the Oxford Lieder Festival
28/10/2019
Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [4] – Messiaen: (CR) Read more
A persuasive recital by Dorothea Röschmann at the Oxford Lieder Festival
27/10/2019
Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [3] – Mendelssohn, Wolf, Mahler, Schumann & Wagner: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano). St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford 25.10.2019. (CR)
Dorothea Röschmann © Harald Hoffmann
Three violas, front-and-center with Miami’s New World Symphony
25/10/2019
United States Higdon, Feldman, Berlioz arr. Steven Mackey: Roberto Diaz, Tabea Zimmermann, and Cynthia Phelps (violas), New World Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas and Christopher Rountree (conductors). New World Center, Miami. 19.10.2019. (LV)
Steven Mackey, Tabea Zimmermann, Michael Tilson Thomas,
and the New World Symphony
Roderick Williams charts an emotional trajectory in Schubert’s Winter Journey
22/10/2019
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [2] – Ross Griffey & Schubert, Tales of the Beyond: Nicholas Mogg and Roderick Williams (baritones), Christopher Glynn (piano). St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 21.10.2019. (CR)
Roderick Williams
Thomas Oliemans’s brilliance lifts The Day of the Dead at the Oxford Lieder Festival
18/10/2019
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [1] – Tippett, Finzi, Schubert, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Fauré: Soloists invited by Sholto Kynoch (artistic director). Holywell Cemetery & Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 15.10 2019. (CP)
Thomas Oliemans
James Darrah’s Semele in Philadelphia: a revelatory blend of depth and brilliance
10/10/2019
United States Festival O19 [4] – Handel, Semele: Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Gary Thor Wedow (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia. 28.9.2019. (BJ)
Opera Philadelphia’s Semele (c) Dominic M. Mercier
The opening of the Galina Vishnevskaya Festival in Kazan
04/10/2019
Russian Federation Galina Vishnevskaya Festival – Shostakovich: Irina Moreva (soprano), Giorgi Chelidze (bass), Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor), Saydachev Concert Hall, Kazan, 25.9.2019. (GT)
Galina Vishnevskaya Festival in Saydachev Concert Hall
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