Germany Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024 [2] – Nicola Antonio Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide: Soloists, Actors, Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth, 7.9.2024. (AB)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Garsington Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a Proms evening of musical magic
United Kingdom PROM 68 – Garsington Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Soloists, Garsington Opera Youth Company, Philharmonia Orchestra / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 10.9.2024. (KMcD)
Full-throttle celebration of Die Fledermaus at Musikfest Bremen
United Kingdom Musikfest Bremen 2024 [2] – Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus: Soloists, Musikfest Bremen Chorus, Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski (conductor). Die Glocke, Bremen, 6.9.2024. (DMD)
Captivating Il trovatore in a magnificent open-air setting in Braunschweig
Germany Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists, Chorus, Extra-Chorus of Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatsorchester Braunschweig / Srba Dinić (conductor). Burgplatz, Braunschweig, 1.9.2024. (DM-D)
Strong voices make a winner of San Francisco Opera’s season-opening Un Ballo
United States Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Eun Sun Kim (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 6.9.2024. (HS)
Cumbria Opera Group’s brand new work Kings, Witches, Lovers and Souls showcases the region’s mythic past
United Kingdom Jen Hartley, Kings, Witches, Lovers and Souls: Eleanor McIntosh (soprano), Anne Elizabeth Cooper (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Hill (baritone), Jonny Danciger (director), Cumbria Youth Chorus, Cumbria Opera Group / Joe Davies & Alastair Burton (co-musical directors), Penrith Playhouse, 31.8.2024. (SRT)
The State Ballet of Georgia’s dancers speak the language of Swan Lake with consummate fluency and eloquence
United Kingdom The State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake: Dancers of the State Ballet of Georgia, Orchestra of English National Opera / Papuna Gvaberidze (conductor). London Coliseum, 28.8.2024. (JO’D)
An excellent cast brings Peter Sellars’s Salzburg production of The Gambler vividly to life
Austria Salzburg Festival 2024 [10] – Prokofiev, The Gambler: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Timur Zangiev (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 25.8.2024. (MB)