Raw Streetcar Named Desire Premieres In Buenos Aires
20/05/2019
Previn, A Streetcar Named Desire: Soloists and Orchestra. Conductor: David Brophy, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 14.5.2019. (JSJ)
A Streetcar Named Desire premiered in Teatro Colón. (Photo Arnaldo Colombaroli)
An Uneven Concert Version of Handel’s Agrippina at the Teatro Real
17/05/2019
Handel, Agrippina (concert version): Il Pomo d’Oro/Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 16.5.2019. (JMI)
From Agrippina © J. del Real
TV Reality Show Staging of Les pêcheurs de perles at the Liceu
16/05/2019
Bizet, Les pêcheurs de perles: Liceu Chorus and Orchestra / Yves Abel (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 13 & 14.5.2019. (JMI)
Les pêcheurs de perles © A Bofill
LOTNY Presents the New York Premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Owen Wingrave
14/05/2019
2019 New York Opera Fest [3] – Britten, Owen Wingrave: Soloists, Orchestra / Richard Cordova (conductor), the little OPERA theatre of ny, GK Arts Center, Brooklyn, 11.5.2019. (RP)
Robert Balonek (Owen Wingrave) © Tina Buckman
The Met: Live in HD Ends Season With a Marvellous Dialogues des Carmélites
14/05/2019
Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor) broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York to the Dundonald Omniplex, Belfast 11.5.2019. (RB)
Dialogues des Carmélites (c) Ken Howard/The Met
Leo Nucci is, Once Again, a Marvelous Rigoletto
13/05/2019
Verdi, Rigoletto: Generalitat Valenciana Chorus, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra / Roberto Abbado (conductor), Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 11.5.2019. (JMI)
Rigoletto (Leo Nucci) © Mikel Ponce y Miguel Lorenzo
Curtis Opera Theatre Presents Powerful Vaughan Williams and Orth Double Bill
12/05/2019
Vaughan Williams, Riders to the Sea; Orth, Empty the House: Soloists, Chorus, Curtis Symphony Orchestra / Daniela Candillari (conductor). The Curtis Opera Theatre, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 2.5.2019. (RP)
Emily Damasco (Maurya) & Olivia Smith (Cathleen) in Riders to the Sea
© William Brown Photography
Less Pomp, Less Circumstance, and More of What Counts in Zurich’s La Sonnambula
11/05/2019
Bellini, La Sonnambula (concert performance): Soloists, Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Maurizio Benini (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 9.5.2019. (CCr)
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