Newsletter – Page 38 – Seen and Heard International

A Carmen for the twenty-first century at Glyndebourne

03/08/202417/05/2024 by Margarida Mota-Bull

United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival 2024 – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Children’s Chorus (members of Glyndebourne Youth Opera and Trinity Boys Choir), Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Glyndebourne, Lewes, E. Sussex, 16.5.2024. (MM-B)

Carmen (Rihab Chaieb), Zuniga (Dingle Yandell) and Glyndebourne Chorus (rear) © Richard Hubert Smith

Three explosive performances and a touching gesture: Kirill Karabits’s fitting farewell with the BSO

04/06/202417/05/2024 by Chris Kettle

United Kingdom Bartok, Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Alexander Gavrylyuk (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor). Lighthouse, Poole, 15.5.2024. (CK)

Kirill Karabits conducts pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra © Mark Allan

Last ounce of spirituality missing from The Dream of Gerontius at the Royal Festival Hall

04/06/202417/05/2024 by John Rhodes

United Kingdom Williams, Elgar: Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Norman (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), The Bach Choir (musical director: David Hill), Philharmonia Orchestra / David Hill (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 16.5.2024. (JR)

David Hill conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra © Andy Paradise

Intelligently programmed and performed Berlin recital by Denis Kozhukhin

04/06/202417/05/2024 by Mark Berry

Germany Widmann, Schubert, Ligeti, Liszt: Denis Kozhukhin (piano). Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 16.5.2024. (MB)

The Ballet Icons Gala returned to The London Coliseum on 17 March 2024

21/03/202431/01/2024 by AUTHOR

BALLET ICONS GALA – 17 March 2024, 7.00pm at the London Coliseum

CLICK HERE TO READ OUR REVIEW OF BALLET ICONS GALA 2024

You are urged to see Murder in the Dark though I must keep you in the dark about the play itself

24/02/202431/01/2024 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Torben Betts’s Murder in the Dark: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 29.1.2024. (JPr)

Torben Betts’s Murder in the Dark © Pamela Raith

The art of storytelling with Renée Fleming and friends at SongStudio 2024

24/02/202431/01/2024 by Rick Perdian

United Kingdom SongStudio 2024: Renée Fleming (Artistic Director and host), Graham Johnson (piano), Nicolas Phan (tenor), Angel Blue (soprano). Carnegie Hall, New York, 22 to 27.1.2024. (RP)

Florian Störtz (bass-baritone) and Jeong-Eun Lee (piano) © Richard Termine

A mix of the familiar and the considerably less so, is a joy from beginning to end in Salzburg

24/02/202431/01/2024 by Mark Berry

Austria Mozartwoche Salzburg 2024 [4] – Mozart, Reicha, and Michael Haydn: Baborák Ensemble (Radek Baborák [horn], Milan Al-Ashhab, [violin], Martina Bačová [violin, viola], Karel Untermüller [viola], Hana Baboráková [cello], David Pavelka [double bass]). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 29.1.2024. (MB)

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