International Opera – Page 5 – Seen and Heard International

Magnificent Act II from Netrebko and Salsi crowns another Teatro Real Tosca

14/09/202122/07/2021 by José Irurzun

Spain Puccini, Tosca [3]: Soloists, Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 21.7.2021. (JMI)

Anna Netrebko (Tosca) and Luca Salsi (Scarpia) (c) J. del real

Nadine Sierra and Javier Camarena save the Liceu’s rather disappointing Lucia di Lammermoor

14/09/202121/07/2021 by José Irurzun

Spain Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Chorus and Orchestra of Gran Teatre del Liceu / Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor). Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 19.7.2021. (JMI)

Nadine Sierra (Lucia) & Javier Camarena (Edgardo) © Toni Bofill

The joy of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Aspen Music Festival helps heal an untimely death

14/09/202121/07/2021 by Harvey Steiman

United States Aspen Music Festival [5]: Benedict Music Tent, Aspen, Colorado, 16-18.7.2021. (HS)

Ricardo José-Rivera (Papageno), Amani Cole-Felder (Pamina) and Patrick Summers (conductor) (c) Elle Logan

Teatro Real’s Tosca run begins with a triumph by Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role

14/09/202119/07/2021 by José Irurzun

Spain Puccini, Tosca [1] [2]: Soloists, Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). Teatre Real, Madrid, 16 and 17.7.2021. (JMI)

Maria Agresta (Tosca) and Michael Fabiano (Cavaradossi) (c) J del Real

Opera Saratoga presents Telemann’s Don Quixote wedding serenata in the great outdoors

21/08/202117/07/2021 by Rick Perdian

United States Telemann, Don Quixote at Camacho’s Wedding: Soloists, Opera Saratoga Young Artists & Orchestra / Michelle Rofrano (conductor). Columbia Pavilion, Saratoga Springs State Park, NY, 14.7.2021. (RP)

Titus Muzi (Don Quixote) © Gary David Gold

‘It’s opera, Jim, but not as we know it’: Simon Stone’s Tristan und Isolde gets on the metro to Aix-en-Provence

21/08/202113/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021 [1] – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Actors, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Corentin Leconte) from Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, and available on Arte Concert until 30.8.2023. (JPr)

Act I: Stuart Skelton (Tristan) & Nina Stemme (Isolde) (c) Jean-Louis Fernandez

There is huge applause at Munich’s Tristan und Isolde for Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros and Kirill Petrenko

21/08/202105/07/2021 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 4.7.2021 (ALL)