Festivals – Page 37 – Seen and Heard International

Sofia Ballet’s freshly exciting Romeo and Juliet is a terrific success in the setting of Pancherovo Lake

30/08/202508/08/2025 by Gregor Tassie

Bulgaria Muses on the Water Summer Festival – Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet: Soloists, Corps de Ballet and Orchestra of Sofia Ballet / Igor Bogdanov (conductor), Pancherovo Lake, Sofia, 1.8.2024. (GT)

Marta Petkova (Juliet) and Frederico Pinto (Romeo)

Clarinettist Mark Simpson’s packed programme and Hugh Cutting’s mixed bag at the EIF 2025

30/08/202507/08/2025 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2025 – [2]: Queen’s Hall. (SRT)

World premiere of Theofanidis’s Siddhartha, She makes a splash in Aspen

30/08/202507/08/2025 by Harvey Steiman

United States Aspen Music Festival [9]: Klein Music Tent, Aspen. (HS)

Sopranist Key’mon Murrah as the Buddha Gautama with members of Kantarei © Diego Redel

A great start to Itinéraire Baroque 2025 from A Nocte Temporis

30/08/202507/08/2025 by Colin Clarke

France Itinéraire baroque en Périgord 2025 [1]: Opening Concert, Pyrame et Thisbé: A Nocte Temporis, Reinoud Van Mechelen (high tenor/director). Église Saint-Étienne-de-la-Cité, Périgord, France, 31.7.2025. (CC)

Enigmatic Boulez, dramatic early Mahler at the BBC Proms

30/08/202505/08/2025 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom BBC Proms 2025 [10] – Boulez, Mahler: Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), James Newby (baritone), Carlos González Nápoles (treble), Malakai Bayoh (alto), Constanza Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra / Hannu Lintu (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 4.8.2025. (CK)

[l-r] Natalya Romaniw (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Hannu Lintu (conductor), Russell Thomas (tenor) and James Newby (baritone) © BBC/Andy Paradise

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Sofia Ballet’s freshly exciting Romeo and Juliet is a terrific success in the setting of Pancherovo Lake

Clarinettist Mark Simpson’s packed programme and Hugh Cutting’s mixed bag at the EIF 2025

World premiere of Theofanidis’s Siddhartha, She makes a splash in Aspen

A great start to Itinéraire Baroque 2025 from A Nocte Temporis

Enigmatic Boulez, dramatic early Mahler at the BBC Proms

Tautly focused The Turn of the Screw creates a creepy psychological mood at Santa Fe Opera

Ailyn Pérez and Liv Redpath excel in an uneven The Marriage of Figaro in Santa Fe

Kahchun Wong’s immaculate conception of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony