International Opera – Page 277 – Seen and Heard International

Figaro By The Numbers, Needing Tiny Surprises

26/06/201521/06/2015 by Harvey Steiman

Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of San Francisco Opera, Patrick Summers (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 18.6.2015 (HS) Cast: Figaro: Philippe Sly Susanna: Lisette Oropesa Countess Almaviva: Nadine Sierra Cherubino: Kate Lindsey Count Almaviva: Luca Pisaroni Bartolo: John Del Carlo Marcellina: Catherine Cook Basilio: Greg Fedderly Don Curzio: John … Read more

Two Superb Norinas are the Highlight of the Liceu’s Don Pasquale

26/06/201519/06/2015 by José Irurzun

Spain Spain Donizetti: Don Pasquale, Liceu Orchestra and Chorus, Diego Mattheuz (conductor), Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 16 & 17.6.2015 (JMI)

ENO’s Production Undermines Virtues of The Queen of Spades

26/06/201519/06/2015 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the English National Opera / Edward Gardner (conductor). Coliseum, London, 9.6.2015 (MB)

Operatic Portrait of a Jazz Legend

26/06/201516/06/2015 by Bernard Jacobson

United States Schnyder, Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (world premiere–co-commission and co-production with Gotham Chamber Opera): Soloists, Opera Philadelphia, Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 10.6.2015 (BJ)

Budapest Thrills to a Dramatic Faust Festival

16/06/201509/06/2015 by Roderic Dunnett

Hungary Hungary Gounod, Busoni Faust 225 Festival, Hungarian State Opera, Orchestra and Chorus, State Opera House, Budapest (Festival ran 17 May to 1 June) (RD)

Non-Prod-1 — Gounod 1 H16A744 At left Mephistopheles (Gábor Bretz) and Marthe (Bernadett Wiedemann), at right Faust (Dario Schmunck) and Marguerite (Andrea Rost) (photo – Péter Rákossy) (1)

Theatrical Carmen In La Plata

27/01/201607/06/2015 by Jonathan Spencer Jones

Argentina Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of Teatro Argentino. Conductor: Tulio Gagliardo Varas, Teatro Argentino, La Plata. 29.5.2015. (JSJ)

Adriana Mastrángelo (Carmen) and Enrique Folger (Don José) in Teatro Argentino’s Carmen. Photo Teatro Argentino

A Capricious Fidelio Disappoints in Madrid

07/06/201502/06/2015 by Stan

Spain Spain Beethoven: Fidelio, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Hartmut Haenchen (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 30.5.2015 (JMI)

An Engaging Così at the Liceu

07/06/201501/06/2015 by José Irurzun

Spain Spain Mozart: Così Fan Tutte, Liceu’s Orchestra and Chorus, Josep Pons (conductor), Gran Theatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 27 & 28.5.2015. (JMI)

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