Newsletter – Page 42 – Seen and Heard International

Nánási rightly conducts Tchaikovsky’s rich Eugene Onegin score and not Huffman’s blank stage

26/10/202429/09/2024 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet & Opera / Henrik Nánási (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 26.9.2024. (AK)

Gordon Bintner (Eugene Onegin) and Liparit Avetisyan (Lensky) © Tristram Kenton

Puccini’s Suor Angelica felt like a return to the great days of ENO

26/10/202429/09/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Puccini, Suor Angelica (sung in English): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Corinna Niemeyer (conductor). London Coliseum, 27.9.2024 (CC)

Annabella Vesela-Ellis (Novice Nun) and Gaynor Keeble (Mistress of the Novices) © Genevieve Girling

Two contrasting Rachmaninoff works from the LPO under Edward Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall

26/10/202429/09/2024 by John Rhodes

United Kingdom Rachmaninoff: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Kristina Mkhitaryan (soprano), Dmytro Popov (tenor), Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone), London Philharmonic Choir (artistic director: Neville Creed), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 28.9.2024. (JR)

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner © Mark Allan

The LPO, DiDonato and Gardner shine in mythic vengeance, queenly suicide and social heroism

26/10/202429/09/2024 by Christopher Sallon

United Kingdom ‘Moments Remembered’ – Samuel Barber, Berlioz and Beethoven: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London. 25.9.2024. (CSa)

An outstanding London recital from Igor Levit

26/10/202428/09/2024 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Bach, Brahms, and Beethoven: Igor Levit (piano). Royal Festival Hall, London, 27.9.2024. (MB)

Tension and drama abound in the Chicago Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Fourth and Walton Viola Concerto

26/10/202428/09/2024 by Zach Carstensen

United States Vaughan-Williams, Walton, Tchaikovsky: Antoine Tamestit (viola), Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (conductor). Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 26.9.2024. (ZC)

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2021 © Todd Rosenberg/CSO

Sir Simon Rattle conducts a Bach St Matthew Passion of great integrity in Munich

26/10/202428/09/2024 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany Bach, Matthäus-Passion (St Matthew Passion): Soloists, Augsburger Domsingknaben, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Herkulessaal, Munich, 26.9.2024. (ALL)

Bach’s *St Matthew Passion* in Munich’s Herkulessaal © Severin Vogl/BRSO

An outstanding Benjamin Bernheim dominates the Met’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann revival

26/10/202427/09/2024 by Edward Sava-Segal

United States Offenbach, Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 24.9.2024. (ES-S)

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (background, Nicklausse), Erin Morley (Olympia), and Benjamin Bernheim (Hoffmann) © Karen Almond/Met Opera

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