SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, THEATRE , BROADCASTS AND FILMS
Collected opera and ballet reviews
United Kingdom Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sesto Quatrini (conductor). Recorded live (directed by Rhodri Huw) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 5.10.2023 and viewed at the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 9.10.2023. (JPr)
United States Heggie, Dead Man Walking: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 6.10.2023. (RP)
Austria Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from the Vienna State Opera, 7.10.2023. (JPr)
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe: Soloists, Chorus of English National Opera (chorus director Martin Fitzpatrick), Orchestra of English National Opera / Chris Hopkins (conductor). London Coliseum, 5.10.2023. (JR)
Germany Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov: Soloists, Children’s and Youth Choir (director: Luiz de Goday) and Chorus (director: Eberhard Friedrich) of the Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Kent Nagano (conductor). Hamburg State Opera, Hamburg, 4.10.2023 (MB)
Spain Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Theatre del Liceu / Josep Pons (conductor). Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 1 and 2.10.2023. (JMI)
Germany Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Children’s Chorus (director: Christian Lindhorst) and Chorus (director: Jeremy Bines) of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin / John Fiore (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 30.9.2023. (MB)
United Kingdom Ballet Nights: Autumn Season 2023: Jamiel Devernay-Laurence (producer and compère). Lanterns Studio Theatre, London, 29.9.2023 (JO’D)
