Opera & Ballet – Page 140 – Seen and Heard International

Glyndebourne’s Così fan tutte revival is a veritable triumph of organisation, performance and production

21/08/202106/07/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2021 – Mozart, Così fan tutte (Bärenreiter edition, ed. Ferguson / Rehm): Soloists, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Riccardo Minasi (conductor). Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, East Sussex, 4.7.2021. (CC)

Alessandro Corbelli (Don Alfonso) and Hera Hyesang Park (Despina)
(c) Tristram Kenton

Semperoper Ballett’s first streaming event is a six-part celebration of who they are and how they’re doing things

21/08/202105/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Germany A Collection of Short Stories – multi-part ballet evening: Dancers of Semperoper Ballett. Filmed (directed by Tilo Krause for Armida Film) at Semperoper Dresden and streamed from 2 until 15.7.2021 (click here). (JPr)

*The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude* (c) Ian Whalen

There is huge applause at Munich’s Tristan und Isolde for Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros and Kirill Petrenko

21/08/202105/07/2021 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bavarian State Orchestra / Kirill Petrenko (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 4.7.2021 (ALL)

Jonas Kaufmann (Tristan) and Anja Harteros (Isolde) © W. Hösl

Das Rheingold revival in Munich: sometimes pleasing but rather an uneven performance

21/08/202104/07/2021 by José Irurzun

Germany Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Bayerische Staatsoper Orchestra / Patrick Lange (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 3.7.2021. (JMI)

Bayerische Staatsoper’s *Das Rheingold* (c) W. Hösl

New Chamber Opera’s delightful, charming and innocent production of Galuppi’s The She-Devil

21/08/202104/07/2021 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Galuppi, La Diavolessa: Soloists of New Chamber Opera and The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor/harpsichord). New College, Oxford, 30.6.2021. (CR)

Business-as-usual mediocrity instead of post-Covid risk-taking: Gürbaca’s Lucia is way off the mark in Zurich

21/08/202102/07/2021 by Casey Creel

Switzerland Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists and Chorus of the Opernhaus Zürich, Philharmonia Zürich / Speranza Scappucci (conductor), Opernhaus Zürich, Zurich, 26.6.2021. (CCr)

Longborough’s Big Top Così fan tutte just about survives the cuts and the re-orchestration

21/08/202130/06/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2021 [2] – Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists and the Barefoot Band / Lesley Anne Sammons (conductor). Big Top, Longborough Festival Opera, Gloucestershire, 26.6.2021. (CP)

Idunnu Münch (Dorabella), William Morgan (Ferrando) & John Molloy (Alfonso)
(c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

Die ersten Menschen is Rudi Stephan’s musical legacy because his life was tragically short

21/08/202129/06/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Netherlands Rudi Stephan, Die ersten Menschen (The First Humans): Soloists, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth (conductor). Filmed (directed by Sarah Derendinger) at De Nationale Opera, Amsterdam, and streamed from 25.6.2021 on ARTE Concert. (JPr)

Dutch National Opera’s *Die ersten Menschen* © Ruth Walz

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