A Drama of Extremes: La Damnation de Faust in Berlin

Berlioz: Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Charles Castronovo (tenor, Faust) Joyce DiDanato (mezzo-soprano, Marguerite), Ludovic Tézier (bass Méphistophélès), Florian Boesch (bass, Brander), Simon Halsey (chorus director), Berlin Philharmonikier, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Berlin Philharmonie, 10.04.15 (HR)   Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust   Not quite an opera and not quite a pure concert work, Hector Berlioz’s La Damnation … Read more

Scottish Opera’s Jenůfa Impresses with its Integrity and Power to Stun

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Janáček, Jenůfa: Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera, The Chorus of Jenůfa / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 9.4.2015 (SRT)

Kathryn Harries as Kostelnička Buryjovka, Lee Bisset as Jenůfa and Peter Wedd as Laca Klemeň in Jenůfa. Scottish Opera 2015. Credit James Glossop (1)
Kathryn Harries as Kostelnička Buryjovka, Lee Bisset as Jenůfa and Peter Wedd as Laca Klemeň in Jenůfa. Scottish Opera 2015. Credit James Glossop

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