Opera & Ballet – Page 141 – Seen and Heard International

Aix-en-Provence saw the premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s engrossing, thought-provoking commentary on gun violence and much else

14/09/202106/08/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021 [2] – Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence: Soloists, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, London Symphony Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). 10.7.2021 Performance filmed (directed by Philippe Béziat) at the Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, and available on ARTE Concert until 1.7.2024. (JPr)

[r] Vilma Jää (Marketa) & Magdalena Kožená (Tereza) (c) Jean-Louis Fernandez

Grand opera returns to New York with Teatro Nuovo’s delightful Il barbiere di Siviglia

14/09/202101/08/2021 by Rick Perdian

United States Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Soloists, Teatro Nuovo Chorus and Orchestra / Jakob Lehmann (primo violino e capo d’orchestra) and Will Crutchfield (maestro al cembalo). Teatro Nuovo, Damrosch Park, New York, NY, 27.7.2021. (RP)

Longborough’s emerging artists and youth chorus fashion a Cunning spirits-lifting close to the season

14/09/202131/07/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2021 [3] – Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Longborough Youth Chorus, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Justin Brown (conductor). The Big Top, Longborough, Gloucestershire, 29.7.2021. (CP)

Julieth Lozano (Vixen) & Longborough Youth Chorus (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

Tête-à-Tête present Darren Berry’s unusual The Crocodile of Old Kang Pow

14/09/202131/07/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival [1] – Darren Berry: The Crocodile of Old Kang Pow (Acts I and II): Soloists, Darren Berry (narrator), Eddie Giffney (piano). The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, London, 29.7.2021 (MB)

Oscar Dom Victor Castellino (O’Fela, the Crocodile God) (c) Claire Shovelton

Bard Summerscape presents Chausson’s Le roi Arthus in a thrilling, picture-perfect production

14/09/202131/07/2021 by Rick Perdian

United States Chausson, Le roi Arthus: Soloists, Bard Festival Chorale, American Symphony Orchestra / Leon Botstein (conductor), Bard Summerscape 2021, Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 25.7.2021. (RP)

Norman Garrett (King Arthus) © Maria Baranova

At Bayreuth, it is Tcherniakov’s Der fliegende Holländer we see while Oksana Lyniv lets us hear Wagner’s

14/09/202130/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Germany Bayreuth Festival 2021 – Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). 25.7.2021 performance and streamed (directed by Andy Sommer) for a limited time on DG Stage. (JPr)

Marina Prudenskaya (Mary), Eric Cutler (Erik) and Asmik Grigorian (Senta) (c) Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuther Festspiele

Wallow in the beauty of the human voice, though Munich’s new Idomeneo dwarfs the singers

14/09/202128/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

Germany Mozart, Idomeneo: Soloists, Chorus of the Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester / Constantinos Carydis (conductor). Filmed (directed by Christoph Engel) on 24.7.2021 at the Prinzregententheater, Munich, and streamed from 26.7.2021 (and available until 26.8.2021). (JPr)

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller as Elettra in Munich’s *Idomeneo*

Gluck’s Paris and Helen is another hidden gem Bampton Classical Opera has unearthed

14/09/202127/07/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Gluck, Paris and Helen (Parida ed Elena): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). The Deanery Garden, Bampton, 23.7.2021 (CP)

Ella Taylor (l Paris) and Lucy Anderson (r Helen) (c) Jeremy Gray.

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