World premiere of a rare Donizetti opera in a staged version at the Bergamo festival
22/11/2019
Italy Festival Donizetti Opera 2019 [1] – Donizetti, L’ange de Nisida: Donizetti Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Jean-Luc Tingaud (conductor), Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 21.11.2019. (JMI)
Donizetti’s L’ange de Nisida (c) Rota
Juggling on the Nile – Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera
22/11/2019
United States Glass, Akhnaten: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Karen Kamensek (conductor), Metropolitan Opera, New York, 19.11.2019. (RP)
Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role of Glass’s Akhnaten
© Karen Almond/Met Opera
A visual bag of tricks: Barrie Kosky’s The Magic Flute returns to LA Opera
18/11/2019
United States Mozart, The Magic Flute: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 16.11.2019. (JRo)
Theo Hoffman (Papageno) and Zuzana Markova (Pamina) (c) Cory Weaver
Berlin sees and hears the world premiere of Chaya Czernowin’s fascinating new opera
17/11/2019
Germany Chaya Czernowin, Heart Chamber (world premiere): Soloists, Ensemble Nikel (Brian Archinal [percussion], Yaron Deutsch [electric guitar], Antoine Françoise [piano], Patrick Stadler [saxophone]), SWR Experimentalstudio (live electronics), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin / Johannes Kalitzke (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 15.11.2019. (MB)
Deutsche Oper Berlin’s Heart Chamber (c) Michael Trippel
Doña Francisquita – nicely sung zarzuela on stage at Barcelona’s Liceu
13/11/2019
Spain Amadeo Vives, Doña Francisquita: Liceu Orchestra and Chorus / Óliver Díaz (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 11 & 12.11.2019. (JMI)
Doña Francisquita (c) A. Bofill
A new production of Purcell’s King Arthur in Berlin
12/11/2019
Germany Purcell, King Arthur: Actors, Soloists, Ein Skills Ensemble, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Akademie für Alte Musk Berlin, René Jacobs (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 8.11.2019. (MB)
King Arthur (c) Ruth and Martin Walz
The Met’s troubled Madama Butterfly does justice to Anthony Minghella’s vision and memory
11/11/2019
United States The Met: Live in HD – Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor). Broadcast live to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 9.11.2019. (JPr)
Hui He (Butterfly) and Paulo Szot (Sharpless) © Richard Termine/Met Opera
Anja Kampe blazes in Oper Frankfurt’s Lady Macbeth of Mstensk
06/11/2019
Germany Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mstensk: Soloists, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester / Sebastian Weigle (conductor), Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, 3.11.2019. (RP)
Anja Kampe (Katerina Ismailova) & Dmitry Belosselskiy
(Boris Ismailov) © Barbara Aumüller
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