Opera & Ballet – Page 122 – Seen and Heard International

Good but not flawless Stefan Herheim production of Peter Grimes at Bavarian State Opera

18/06/202207/03/2022 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany Britten, Peter Grimes: Soloists, Children’s Chorus, Chorus and Orchestra of Bayerische Staatsoper / Edward Gardner (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 6.3.2022. (ALL)

Bavarian State Opera’s *Peter Grimes* © W Hoesl

Comic, visual and – above all – aural treat: Salzburg production of Italian Girl in Algiers comes to Zurich

18/06/202207/03/2022 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Rossini, The Italian Girl in Algiers: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Orchestra la Scintilla / Gianluca Capuano (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich, 6.3.2022. (JR)

Zurich Opera’s *The Italian Girl in Algiers* (c) Monika Rittershaus

Shades of the present haunt Russia’s past as parodied by Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel

29/03/202507/03/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, The Golden Cockerel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Gerry Cornelius (conductor). Hackney Empire. London, 5.3.2022. (CC)

Alys Mererid Roberts (Cockerel), Robert Lewis (Astrologer) and Grant Doyle (King Dodon) © Richard Hubert Smith

Verdi’s Don Carlos in the original French version arrives at the Met with a star-studded cast

10/05/202202/03/2022 by Rick Perdian

United States Verdi, Don Carlos: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 28.2.2022. (RP)

Sonya Yoncheva, Eric Owens and Matthew Polenzani © Ken Howard/Met Opera

Blue, an opera about race in America, debuts at Seattle Opera

10/05/202201/03/2022 by Zach Carstensen

United States Jeanine Tesori, Blue: Soloists of the Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony / Viswa Subbaraman (conductor). McCaw Hall, Seattle, 26.2.2022. (ZC)

Kenneth Kellogg and Briana Hunter in *Blue* © Philip Newton

English Touring Opera’s enjoyable revival of La bohème

10/05/202201/03/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Dionysis Grammenos (conductor). Hackney Empire Theatre, London, 26.2.2022. (MB)

Francesca Chiejina and Luciano Botelho (c) Richard Hubert Smith

Pablo Heras-Casado leads a convincing Götterdämmerung at the Teatro Real

10/05/202224/02/2022 by José Irurzun

Spain Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra / Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 23.2.2022. (JMI)

Ricarda Merbeth (Brünnhilde) and Andreas Schager (Siegfried) (c) J. del Real

Phantasmagoria as Man is pitted against Nature in ENO’s new The Cunning Little Vixen

10/05/202224/02/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen (Přiíhody lišky Bystroušky): Soloists, Children’s Chorus, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Martyn Brabbins (conductor). London Coliseum, 22.2.2022. (CC)

English National Opera’s *The Cunning Little Vixen* © Clive Barda

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