Switzerland Verdi: Rigoletto, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Grand Théâtre de Genève Chorus, Alexander Joel (conductor), Grand Théâtre de Genève, Switzerland, 3.9.2014 (AL)
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International Opera
All opera reviews from sources other that the UK
Rossini Opera Festival (3): The Coloratura Contralto Herself
Italy ROF(3) Mozart, Gluck, Weber, Rossini, Cherubini, Donizetti, Prokofiev, Glinka, Ponchielli. Ewa Podleś (contralto) Filarmonica Gioacchino Rossini. Conductor, Carlo Tenan. Music by Teatro Rossini, Pesaro 20.08.2014 (JB)
New Production of Le Nozze di Figaro by Finnish National Opera
FinlandMozart Le nozze di Figaro. Soloists, Finnish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki (conductor). Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, 29.8.2014 (premiere) (GF)
Rossini Opera Festival (1): The Juan Francisco Gatell Recital
Italy Rossini Opera Festival ROF (1)Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Auber, Gounod and Zarzuela, Juan Francisco Gatell (tenor) Beatrice Benzi (piano) Auditorium Pedrotti, Pesaro 18.08.2014 (JB)
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Rossini Opera Festival (2): Plagiarism Contra Provincialism
Italy. ROF (2) Rossini, Aureliano in Palmira. Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Chorus Master Andrea Faidutti; Conductor, Will Crutchfield, who is also the Research Editor of the new performing edition of the Fondazione Rossini, Teatro Rossini, Pesaro. 18.9.2014. (JB)
Don Giovanni The Predator In Buenos Aires
Argentina Mozart, Don Giovanni: Buenos AiresLírica. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Buenos AiresLírica,Conductor:Pedro-Pablo Prudencio. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 22.8.2014. (JSJ)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Magnificent Verdi Requiem
Spain Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orfeón Donostiarra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor), Kursaal Centre, San Sebastiàn, Spain, 26.8.2014 (JMI)
San Sebastián’s La Bohème: Traditional Yet, All in All, Attractive
Spain Puccini: La Bohème, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, Andra Mari Chorus, José Ramón Encinar (conductor), Kursaal Centre, San Sebastián, Spain, 17.8.2014 (JMI)
