Opera & Ballet – Page 129 – Seen and Heard International

MacMillan’s naturalistic – and ageless – Romeo and Juliet sees The Royal Ballet performing consummately well

10/05/202217/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet: Dancers of The Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jonathan Lo (conductor). Performance of 3.2.2022 broadcast to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 14.2.2022. (JPr)

Marcelino Sambé (Romeo) and Anna Rose O’Sullivan (Juliet)

Così fan tutte is another wonderful ensemble achievement for Saffron Opera Group

10/05/202215/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte (concert performance): Chorus (chorus master: James Davey) and Orchestra of Saffron Opera Group / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 13.2.2022. (JPr)

Jessica Cale (Fiordiligi), Liam Bonthrone (Ferrando), Rebecca Afonwy-Jones (Dorabella) and Marcus Farnsworth (Guglielmo) (c) Roger King

Heartbeat Opera’s heroic, harrowing Fidelio hits the road

10/05/202214/02/2022 by Rick Perdian

United States Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Band / Daniel Schlosberg (arranger & conductor). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 12.2.2022. (RP)

Harrowing new production of the Dialogues of the Carmelites at Zurich Opera

10/05/202214/02/2022 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Poulenc, Dialogues of the Carmelites: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Tito Ceccherini (conductor). Zurich Opera, Zurich, 13.2.2022. (JR)

Olga Kulchynska (Blanche) and Sandra Hamaoui (Sister Constance) (c) Hedwig Prammer

Anthony Negus and his remarkable cast excel in Suzanne Chaundy’s gimmick-free Melbourne Opera Die Walküre

27/03/202313/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Australia Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Melbourne Opera Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, 9.2.2022. (JPr)

Bradley Daley (Siegmund), Zara Barrett (Brünnhilde) and Lee Abrahmsen (Sieglinde) © Robin Halls

Asmik Grigorian stars in a revival of Robert Carsen’s shop till you drop Vienna Manon Lescaut

10/11/202310/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Francesco Ivan Ciampa (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Domnik Kepczynski) from Vienna State Opera on 7.2.2022. (JPr)

Boris Pinkhasovich (Lescaut) and Asmik Grigorian (Manon) © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Poehn

Gheorghiu, Pop, Volle and Armiliato are the stars of a superb revival of The Royal Opera’s Tosca

26/01/202410/02/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 8.2.2022. (JPr)

Angela Gheorghiu (Tosca) and Stefan Pop (Cavaradossi) © Clive Barda

In the Liceu revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, ‘cancellation’ becomes a major protagonist

27/03/202209/02/2022 by José Irurzun

Spain Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame): Chorus and Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu / Dmitri Jurowski (conductor). Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 6 & 8.2.2022. (JMI)

Larissa Diadkova as the Old Countess in her death scene (c) A. Bofill

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