Opera & Ballet – Page 10 – Seen and Heard International

Barlett Sher’s Tales of Hoffmann revival at the Met loses the emotional core of this complex opera

26/10/202409/10/2024 by Jim Pritchard

United States Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Broadcast Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 5.10.2024. (JPr)

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (Nicklausse), Benjamin Bernheim (Hoffmann), and Christian Van Horn (Lindorf) © Karen Almond/Met Opera

Programmed with Inger’s frenetic Impasse, it is Forsythe’s Blake Works 1 which has the Paris audience sighing

26/10/202407/10/2024 by John O'Dwyer

France William Forsythe/Johan Inger: Paris Opera Ballet, Palais Garnier, Paris, 4.10.2024. (JO’D)

Germain Louvet and Hohyun Kang in *Blake Works 1* © Ann Ray/OnP

Chicago Opera Theater’s Leonora shines light on Ferdinando Paër’s overlooked masterpiece

26/10/202406/10/2024 by Zach Carstensen

United States Ferdinando Paër, Leonora: Soloists and Orchestra of Chicago Opera Theater / Dame Jane Glover (conductor). Studebaker Theater, Chicago, 4.10.2024. (ZC)

Alex Soare (Giachino), Keely Futterer (Marcellina), Vanessa Becerra (Fedele/Leonora) , and Joo Won Kang (Rocco) © Michael Brosilow

This was a fine ENO Bohème and the frisson of an unexpected cast change certainly helped

26/10/202405/10/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus of St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Clelia Cafiero (conductor). London Coliseum, 3.10.2024. (CC)

English National Opera’s *La bohème* © Lloyd Winters

English Touring Opera’s fresh, engaging account of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snowmaiden

26/10/202404/10/2024 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, The Snowmaiden: Soloists, Choral Ensemble, Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Hannah Quinn (conductor). Hackney Empire, London, 28.9.2024. (MB)

Ffion Edwards (Snowmaiden) and Kitty Whately (Lel) © Richard Hubert Smith

Berlin revival of Respighi’s La fiamma after 90 years leaves no one untouched

26/10/202403/10/2024 by Andreas Bücker

Germany Respighi, La fiamma: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus and Children’s Chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin, Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Deutsche Oper Berlin, 29.9.2024. (AB)

Deutsche Oper Berlin’s *La fiamma* © Monika Rittershaus

Persuasive contemporary staging of Nabucco in Düsseldorf enhanced by great singing

26/10/202403/10/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Verdi, Nabucco: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Deutsche Oper am Rhein / Katharina Müllner (conductor). Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, 29.9.2024. (DMD)

Lyric Opera of Chicago stages a Fidelio for the twenty-first century

26/10/202402/10/2024 by James Zychowicz

United Kingdom Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 29.9.2024. (JLZ)

Elza van den Heever (Leonore) and Russell Thomas (Florestan) © Todd Rosenberg

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