An outstanding performance of Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara at Wexford

IrelandIreland Wexford Festival Opera 2023 [3] – Marco Tutino, La Ciociara: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Opera Festival / Francesco Cilluffo (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford 2.11.2023. (RB)

Wexford Festival Opera’s production of La Ciociara © Clive Barda/ArenaPAL

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West-Eastern Divan Ensemble epitomise how we must believe music can bring us closer together

GermanyGermany Hindemith, Carter, Hensel, and Beethoven: West-Eastern Divan Ensemble (Michael Barenboim [violin, viola], Miriam Manaserhov [viola], Assif Binness [cello], David Santos Luque [double bass], Daniel Gurfinkel [clarinet], Mor Biron [bassoon], Ben Goldscheider [horn]). Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, 9.11.2023. (MB)

West-Eastern Divan Ensemble in Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal © Peter Adamik

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Netrebko and Guerrero impress in an eye-watering revival of Carsen’s Vienna Manon Lescaut

AustriaAustria Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Jader Bignamini (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Anna Gettel) from Vienna State Opera on 8.11.2023. (JPr)

Robert Carsen’s Manon Lescaut Act II © Wiener Staatsoper

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