Opera & Ballet – Page 11 – Seen and Heard International

Emily D’Angelo soars in Tesori’s gripping and powerful Grounded on the Met’s 2024/25 opening night

26/10/202426/09/2024 by Rick Perdian

United States Jeanine Tesori, Grounded: Soloists, Men of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 23.9.2024. (RP)

Emily D’Angelo (Jess) and Kyle Miller (Sensor) © Ken Howard/Met Opera

Adele Thomas’s powerful and passionate Rigoletto for the beleaguered WNO

26/10/202425/09/2024 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Pietro Rizzo (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2024. (GPu)

Sparafucile (Nathanaël Tavernier), Rigoletto (Daniel Luis de Vicente) and Maddalena (Alyona Abramova) © Richard Hubert Smith

Imaginative and intelligent revision of Der Freischütz in Oldenburg

26/10/202425/09/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Weber, Der Freischütz (Additional music by Elena Kats-Chernin. Libretto by Friedrich Kind, in a new version by Susanne Felicitas Wolf): Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Hendrik Vestmann (conductor). Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 18.9.2024. (DMD)

Stephanie Hershaw (Ännchen ), Johannes Leander Maas (Max), Adréana Kraschewski (Agathe) © Stephan Walzl

Madame Butterfly meets Hollywood film set at the LA Opera

26/10/202423/09/2024 by Jane Rosenberg

United States Puccini, Madame Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor). Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 21.9.2024. (JRo)

Jonathan Tetelman (Pinkerton) and Karah Son (Cio-Cio-San) © Cory Weaver

Admire the fine singing of a rather questionable Komische Oper Messiah staging

26/10/202423/09/2024 by Mark Berry

Germany Handel, Messiah: Soloists, Choral Soloists and Project Chorus of the Komische Oper, Orchestra of the Komische Oper / George Petrou (conductor). Hangar 4, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, 21.9.2024. (MB)

Komische Oper’s *Messiah* © Jan Windszus Photography

Eugene Onegin is another triumph for Northern Ireland Opera

26/10/202421/09/2024 by Robert Beattie

United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Northern Ireland Opera / Dominic Limburg (conductor). Grand Opera House, Belfast, 17.9.2024. (RB)

Northern Ireland Opera’s *Eugene Onegin* © Neil Harrison Photography

Mesmerising unity in diversity in Hannover’s Satyagraha

26/10/202419/09/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Glass, Satyagraha: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Staatsoper Hannover, Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover / Masaru Kumakura (conductor). Staatsoper Hannover, 8.9.2024. (DMD)

Hannover State Opera’s *Satyagraha* © Sandra Then

Ariadne auf Naxos is presented in an unusual and highly innovative form by Iván Fischer in Budapest

26/10/202418/09/2024 by Agnes Kory

Hungary R. Strauss: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (orchestral suite) Op.60-IIIa, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists, Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor), Müpa Budapest, 8.9.2024. (AK)

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