Opera & Ballet – Page 143 – Seen and Heard International

Garsington Opera’s highly enjoyable Le Comte Ory has an energetic, risqué sense of fun

14/09/202120/07/2021 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2021 [1] – Rossini, Le Comte Ory: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus and Philharmonia Orchestra / Valentina Peleggi (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 17.7.2021. (CR)

Garsington Opera’s *Le Comte Ory* (c) Alice Pennefather

Teatro Real’s Tosca run begins with a triumph by Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role

14/09/202119/07/2021 by José Irurzun

Spain Puccini, Tosca [1] [2]: Soloists, Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). Teatre Real, Madrid, 16 and 17.7.2021. (JMI)

Maria Agresta (Tosca) and Michael Fabiano (Cavaradossi) (c) J del Real

Opera Saratoga presents Telemann’s Don Quixote wedding serenata in the great outdoors

21/08/202117/07/2021 by Rick Perdian

United States Telemann, Don Quixote at Camacho’s Wedding: Soloists, Opera Saratoga Young Artists & Orchestra / Michelle Rofrano (conductor). Columbia Pavilion, Saratoga Springs State Park, NY, 14.7.2021. (RP)

Titus Muzi (Don Quixote) © Gary David Gold

Jennifer France’s unforgettable Vixen crowns OHP’s Janáček production which has it all – comedy, pathos, delight and tears

21/08/202114/07/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen (Přiíhody lišky Bystroušky) sung in English in the chamber version by Jonathan Dove): Soloists, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia / Jessica Cottis (conductor). Holland Park, London, 13.7.2021. (CC)

Members of the Children’s Chorus in *The Cunning Little Vixen* © Ali Wright

‘It’s opera, Jim, but not as we know it’: Simon Stone’s Tristan und Isolde gets on the metro to Aix-en-Provence

21/08/202113/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021 [1] – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Actors, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Corentin Leconte) from Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, and available on Arte Concert until 30.8.2023. (JPr)

Act I: Stuart Skelton (Tristan) & Nina Stemme (Isolde) (c) Jean-Louis Fernandez

The Royal Ballet’s intriguing Beauty Mixed Programme both looks to the past and to the future

21/08/202111/07/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Royal Ballet’s Beauty Mixed Programme: Dancers of the Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Koen Kessels (conductor). Filmed (directed by Ross MacGibbon) at the Royal Opera House and streamed on 9.7.2021. (JPr)

Wonderfully sung and conducted Don Giovanni revival restores opera properly to Covent Garden

21/08/202109/07/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Constantin Trinks (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 5.7.2021. (MB)

Erwin Schrott (Don Giovanni) and Adela Zaharia (Donna Anna) (c) Bill Cooper

Fine and characterful singing as Die Walküre is heard once more in Wagner-starved London

28/04/202406/07/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, London Opera Company ensemble (Rosemary Taylor [clarinets], Jo Harris [trumpet], William Brown [trombone, bass trumpet], James Bower [percussion]), Peter Selwyn (piano, music director). St John’s, Waterloo, London, 3.7.2021. (MB)

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