Italy Donizetti Opera Festival [1] – Il castello de Kenilworth: Donizetti Opera Orchestra and Chorus / Riccardo Frizza (conductor), Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, 24.11.2018. (JMI)
Highly Enjoyable Staging of a Rarely Seen Donizetti Opera
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Revelatory Das Rheingold from Gothenburg Opera
Sweden Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists and dancers, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra / Evan Rogister (conductor), Gothenburg Opera, 17.11.2018. (NS)
(c) Mats Bäcker
Heggie’s Opera: Sentimental, Colorful, Effective, and Mostly ‘Wonderful’
United States Jake Heggie, It’s a Wonderful Life: Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera / Patrick Summers (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 17.11.2018. (HS)
(c) Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
A Return of Britten’s Operatic Goosebumps
United States Britten, The Turn of the Screw: Vincent DeGeorge (Director), Members of the CCM Opera / Aik Khai Pung (conductor), College Conservatory of Music, Patricia Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, OH. 17.11.2018. (RDA)
Intrepid Band of Artists Bring Enlightenment and Much Else to Stockhausen’s Donnerstag
France Stockhausen, Donnerstag: Soloists, Le jeune chœur de paris (chorus director: Richard Wilberforce), Strings of the Conservatoire à Royonnement Régional de Paris, Orchestre Le Balcon, Orchestra Impromptu / Maxime Pascal (conductor). Salle Favart, Paris, 17.11.2018. (MB)
Hänsel und Gretel: A Clever Carsen Production Lacks Charm
Switzerland Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel: Soloists, Children’s Chorus and Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Markus Poschner (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich. 18.11.2018. (JR)
A Splendid Revival of a Rarely Seen de Nebra Opera
Spain de Nebra, Venus y Adonis (concert version): Los Músicos de su Alteza / Luis Antonio González (conductor), Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid, 18.11.2018. (JMI)
Puts and Campbell Dramatize the Christmas Truce of 1914
United States Kevin Puts, Silent Night: Soloists, Washington National Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Nicole Paiement (conductor), Washington National Opera, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., 17.11.2018. (RRR)
