Xabier Anduaga is a superb Gennaro in Bergamo’s Lucrezia Borgia
24/11/2019
Italy Festival Donizetti Opera 2019 [2] – Donizetti, Lucrezia Borgia: Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Coro Teatro Municipale di Piacenza / Riccardo Frizza (conductor), Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, 22.11.2019. (JMI)
Festival Donizetti Opera 2019’s Lucrezia Borgia (c) Gianfranco Rota
World premiere of a rare Donizetti opera in a staged version at the Bergamo festival
22/11/2019
Italy Festival Donizetti Opera 2019 [1] – Donizetti, L’ange de Nisida: Donizetti Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor), Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 21.11.2019. (JMI)
Donizetti’s L’ange de Nisida (c) Rota
Vale of Glamorgan Festival 2020 preview concert
13/11/2019
United Kingdom Huw Watkins, Michael Zev Gordon, John Luther Adams, Helen Grime: Huw Watkins (piano), David Adams (violin and viola), Matthew Hunt (clarinet). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 12.11.2019. (PCG) Read more
Conor Mitchell’s powerful new music drama, packing a political punch, is staged in Belfast
12/11/2019
United Kingdom Conor Mitchell, Abomination: A DUP Opera: The Belfast Ensemble / Tom Brady (conductor). Lyric Theatre, Belfast, 8.11.2019. (RB)
Abomination: A DUP Opera (c) The Belfast Ensemble
A novel and imaginative double bill at Wexford Festival Opera
04/11/2019
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [3] – Andrew Synnott, Rossini: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Michele Spotti (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, 27.10. 2019. (RB)
Adina (c) Clive Barda
A look back at some events of the 2019 Oxford Lieder Festival
02/11/2019
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [5] – various composers: Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Joseph Middleton (piano), and others. Oxford various venues, 12 to 26.10.2019. (RD)
Balance issues and uneven singing compromise a handsome Vivaldi production in Wexford
01/11/2019
Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [2] – Vivaldi, Dorilla in Tempe: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Andrea Marchiol (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, 26.10.2019. (RB)
Rosa Bove (Filindo), with dancers (c) Clive Barda
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
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This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best. 
In its own way, the Seven Words of Christ is just as sublime as the Stabat Mater. 
This sensitive, dynamic recording is a joy, and may even constitute a revelation. 
The pair exhibits a refined style on these illuminating performances. 
A deeply affecting experience that ought to win the opera many new admirers. 
A US opera union probe finds singer guilty of abusing power 
It's the singers who save this particular production of Verdi's opera 
The Southbank Centre played host to a perfect and passionate performance 
On a night to remember, the Albanian singer explores with shattering force the music championed by a 
The musician has returned to the London venue after living through his 'wildest musical fantasi 
