Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis, (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 8.3.2014 (JLZ)
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Gluck’s Alceste at Teatro Real While Remembering Its Artistic DIrector, Gerard Mortier
Gluck: Alceste, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Real, Ivor Bolton (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 4 & 8.3.2014 (JMI).
Handel’s La Resurrezione:Not Secular Enough
Spain Handel: La Resurrezione, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, René Jacobs (conductor), Madrid Auditorium, 6.3.2014 (JMI)
Aida Without the Show
Switzerland Verdi: Aida Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, conductor: Fabio Luisi, Zurich Opera, Zurich. 2.3.14 (JR)
Mozart with a Southeast Asian Flair
Singapore Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Singapore Lyric Opera Chorus, Adrian Poon (chorus master), Singapore Lyric Opera Orchestra, Joshua Kangming Tan (conductor), EsplanadeTheater, Singapore, 28.2.2014 (RP)
Vienna State Opera’s Salomé: Strauss is in Their Blood
United States Richard Strauss, Salomé: Soloists of the Vienna State Opera, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York, 1.3.2014 (SSM)
Vancouver Island Does Naxos Island Proud
Canada Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Pacific Opera Victoria, soloists, Oriol Tomas (director), Ian Rye (set designer), Sheila White (costume designer)), Kimberly Purtell (lighting designer), Jacques Lemay (choreographer), Victoria Symphony, Timothy Vernon (conductor), Royal Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia, 21.2.2014 (BJ)
Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala: Playing Safe Does Not Always Work
Italy Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), La Scala, Milan, 19 & 21.2.2014 (JMI).
