Festivals – Page 90 – Seen and Heard International

Longborough’s season ends with a ravishing interpretation of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen

05/08/202304/08/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2023 [4] – Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Soloists, Musicians using orchestral material from The Early Music Company / Harry Sever (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 2.8.2023. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *The Fairy Queen* © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Southern sunshine and Nordic twilight: John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic at the Proms

05/08/202304/08/2023 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Prom 26 – Barry, Walton, Sibelius: James Ehnes (violin), BBC Philharmonic / John Storgårds (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 3.7.2023. (CS)

A memorable revival of Kartaloff’s Parsifal marks another triumph for Sofia Opera’s Wagner Festival

04/08/2023 by Gregor Tassie

Bulgaria Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Dancers, Chorus and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Constantin Trinks (conductor). Sofia Opera and Ballet Theatre, 25.7.2023. (GT)

Sofia Opera and Ballet Theatre’s *Parsifal* Act I

Tudor passions reign in Bard SummerScape’s grand production of Saint-Saëns’s Henri VIII

04/08/202304/08/2023 by Rick Perdian

United States Saint-Saëns, Henri VIII: Soloists, Dancers, Bard Festival Chorale, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor). Fischer Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 30.7.2023. (RP)

Alfred Walker (Henri VIII) and Amanda Woodbury (Catherine d’Aragon) © Stephanie Berger

A joyous Itinéraire Baroque concert of Haydn Paris symphonies and a concerto

03/08/2023 by Colin Clarke

Ton Koopman conducts the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra © Jean-Michel Bale

France Itinéraire Baroque 2023 III – Les Symphonies Parisiennes: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra / Ton Koopman (conductor/organ). Eglise Abbatiale de Cercles, France, 3.8.2023. (CC)

Honest commitment and intensity from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the Proms

03/08/202303/08/2023 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Prom 24 – Karabits, Mozart, Rachmaninov: Felix Klieser (horn), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 24.7.2023. (CS)

Felix Klieser with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kirill Karabits © BBC/Mark Allan

Ryan Bancroft’s BBC NOW was on magnificent form in Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky at the Proms

03/08/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Prom 22 – Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky: Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Ryan Bancroft (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 1.8.2023. (CC)

Ryan Bancroft conducts the BBC NOW © Yusef Bastawy

A fine concert from Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyriques devoted to the Virgin Mary

03/08/2023 by Colin Clarke

France Itinéraire Baroque, 2023 I: Ave Maris Stella: Marie Lys, Judith van Wanroij (sopranos), Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Eglise abbatiale de Cercles, France, 28.7.2023. (CC)

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