International Opera

All opera reviews from sources other that the UK

Il trittico is largely a triumph at the Salzburg Festival

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival [2]: Puccini – Il trittico: Soloists, Dancers, Salzburg Festival and Theatre Children’s Choir (chorus director: Wolfgang Götz), Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Jörn Hinnerk Andresen), Angelika-Prokopp-Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic (stage music), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 21.8.2022. (MB)

Gianni Schicchi: Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio), Manel Esteve Madrid (Betto di Signa), Caterina Piva (La Ciesca), Iurii Samoilov (Marco), Enkelejda Shkosa (Zita), Lavinia Bini (Nella), Scott Wilde (Simone) © SF/Monika Rittershaus

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Götterdämmerung proves an inconclusive end to Valentin Schwarz’s new Bayreuth Ring cycle

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2022 – Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Recorded (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Bayreuther Festspielhaus on 5.8.2022 and now available on STAGE+ until 14.11.2047. (JPr)

Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Gunther) with the chorus (Vassals) © Enrico Nawrath

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A lurid tale told deftly in M. Butterfly, a new opera from Huang Ruo based on David Henry Hwang’s play

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United StatesUnited States Santa Fe Opera 2022 [2] – Huang Ruo, M. Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Santa Fe Opera / Carolyn Kuan (conductor). The Crosby Theater, Santa Fe, 3.8.2022. (HS)

Song Liling (Kangmin Justin Kim) and René Gallimard (Mark Stone) © Curtis Brown/Santa Fe Opera

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Marie-Eve Munger and Anthony Roth Costanzo are perfect together in Handel’s Theodora at Caramoor

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United StatesUnited States Handel, Theodora: Soloists, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Baroque Orchestra / Avi Stein (conductor). Venetian Theater, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah, NY, 31.7.2022. (RP)

Marie-Eve Munger (Theodora), Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Avi Stein (conductor) © Gabe Palacio

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