Newsletter – Page 45 – Seen and Heard International

Notes of unity, times of division: Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl in the shadow of the debate

26/10/202420/09/2024 by Laurence Vittes

United States Bernstein, Beethoven: Key’mon Murrah (countertenor), Hera Hyesang Park (soprano), Rihab Chaieb (mezzo-soprano), Anthony León (tenor), Dashon Burton (bass), Los Angeles Master Chorale (artistic director: Grant Gershon), Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 12.9.2024. (LV)

[l-r] Dashon Burton, Rihab Chaieb, Gustavo Dudamel, Anthony León, Hera Hyesang Park, Grant Gershon, Key’mon Murrah © Timothy Norris/LA Phil

A dynamic ensemble cast makes Cluedo 2 overcome its leaden start

26/10/202419/09/2024 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks’s Cluedo 2: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 17.9.2024. (JPr)

[l-r] Ellie Leach (Miss Scarlett), Edward Howells (Professor Plum), Gabriel Paul (Reverend Green), Hannah Boyce (Mrs Peacock), Dawn Buckland (Mrs White) and Jason Durr (Colonel Mustard)

Mesmerising unity in diversity in Hannover’s Satyagraha

26/10/202419/09/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Glass, Satyagraha: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover / Masaru Kumakura (conductor). Staatsoper Hannover, 8.9.2024. (DMD)

Hannover State Opera’s *Satyagraha* © Sandra Then

Ariadne auf Naxos is presented in an unusual and highly innovative form by Iván Fischer in Budapest

26/10/202418/09/2024 by Agnes Kory

Hungary R. Strauss: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (orchestral suite) Op.60-IIIa, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists, Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor), Müpa Budapest, 8.9.2024. (AK)

Regents Opera’s two full Ring cycles at Bethnal Green’s York Hall in February/March 2025

26/10/202418/09/2024 by AUTHOR

The ‘End of the World’ will go ahead, as plucky Regents Opera forge onwards to complete opera’s epic undertaking, Wagner’s full Ring cycle

As larger houses around the world are forced to stop after the third instalment, Regents Opera navigates obstacles to ensure its full cycle will go ahead in February 2025.

Ben Woodward completes the biggest undertaking of the cycle so far, the distillation of Götterdämmerung.

The full Ring cycle transfers to a new venue, York Hall in Bethnal Green.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago season opens with a compelling Rigoletto

26/10/202418/09/2024 by James Zychowicz

United States Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 14.9.2024. (JLZ)

Mary Birnbaum’s production of *Rigoletto* © Lyric Opera of Chicago

Last Night of the Proms 2024: an evening of questionable programming and uneven quality

26/10/202417/09/2024 by Christopher Sallon

United Kingdom PROM 73 – Last Night of the Proms: Angel Blue (soprano), Sir Stephen Hough (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, BBC Singers, (Neil Ferris (chorus/choir master) / Sakari Oramo (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London 14.9.2024. (CSa)

Saffron Opera Group’s Meistersinger for its 10th anniversary was a triumph over adversity

26/10/202417/09/2024 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Saffron Opera Group Chorus (chorus director: James Davey), Saffron Opera Group Orchestra / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 15.9.2024. (JPr)

Saffron Opera Group’s *Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg* (final scene) © Sara Platt

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