Opera & Ballet – Page 130 – Seen and Heard International

Royal Northern Sinfonia, the UK’s only full-time chamber orchestra, lifts Nevill Holt Opera’s La Cenerentola

05/07/202324/06/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Nevill Holt Opera 2023 – Rossini, La Cenerentola: Soloists, Royal Northern Sinfonia / Dionysis Grammenos (conductor). Nevill Holt, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 23.6.2023. (CP)

Nevill Holt Opera’s *La Cenerentola ©* Genevieve Girling

Dresden’s Le nozze di Figaro is splendidly sung though the production is still underwhelming

23/06/2023 by Michael Cookson

Germany Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Sächsische Staatsopernchor, Staatskapelle Dresden / Georg Fritzsch (conductor). Semperoper, Dresden, 27.5.2023. (MC)

Semperoper Dresden’s *Le nozze di Figaro* © Matthias Creutziger

Longborough’s L’elisir d’amore excitingly transfers from a Basque to a Cotswold village

05/07/202323/06/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2023 [2] – Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Longborough Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Alice Farnham (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 20.6.2022. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *L’elisir d’amore* © Matthew Williams-Ellis

There was musical gold in the Dresden Music Festival’s historically-informed Das Rheingold

05/07/202323/06/2023 by Laurence Vittes

Germany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [15] – 14.6.2023, Kulturpalast, Dresden: Soloists, Dresden Festival Orchestra and Concerto Köln / Kent Nagano (conductor). (LV)

Kent Nagano conducting *Das Rheingold* © Oliver Killig

Sasha Regan’s all-male Mikado offers innocent fun at Wilton’s

26/06/202321/06/2023 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Gilbert and Sullivan, The Mikado: Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 19.6.2023. (CS)

Richard Russell Edwards (Hebe Flo), Sam Kipling (Miss Violet Plumb) and Owen Clayton (Bluebell Tring) © Mark Senior

A clash of cultures front and center in Dvořák’s Armida at Prague’s National Theatre

21/06/202321/06/2023 by Rick Perdian

Czech Republic Dvořák, Armida: Soloists, National Theatre Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra / Robert Jindra (conductor). National Theatre, Prague, 16.6.2023. (RP)

Alžběta Poláčková (Armida) © Zdeněk Sokol

Anna Netrebko is the standout performer in a spectacular new Aida at the 100th Verona Opera Festival

22/08/202320/06/2023 by Jim Pritchard

Italy Verdi’s Aida at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2023 [1]: Soloists, Ballet, Chorus and Orchestra of Arena di Verona / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Broadcast live on Rai1 from the Arena di Verona, 16.6.2023. (JPr)

Yusif Eyvazov (Radamès) and Olesya Petrova (Amneris) © Ennevifoto / Arena di Verona

Zurich Opera strikes (liquid) gold in a fascinating new production of Turandot but without a happy end

19/06/2023 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Chorus and Childrens’ Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Marc Albrecht (conductor). Zurich Opera, 18.6.2023. (JR)

Rosa Feola (Liù) and Sondra Radvanovsky (Turandot) © Monika Rittershaus

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