Spain Verdi, Aida: Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 24, 25, 26.10.2022. (JMI)
Madrid opens the opera season with myriad Aida casts and a surprise
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Martin Schläpfer attempts to reawaken Sleeping Beauty for the 2020s in Vienna
Austria Vienna State Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen): Dancers of Vienna State Ballet, Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Patrick Lange (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Balázs Delbó) from the Vienna State Opera, 24.10.2022. (JPr)
Radvanovsky is the Medea of the 2020s in David McVicar’s visceral Met production
United States Met: Live in HD – Cherubini’s Medea: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Gary Halvorson) to the Barbican Cinema, London, 22.10.2022. (CC)
Barkouf by Jacques Offenbach – paw power at Zurich Opera
Switzerland Offenbach, Barkouf: Soloists, Chorus of Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Jérémie Rohrer (conductor). Zurich Opera, 23.10.2022. (MF)
Janáček’s Kát’a Kabanová reinvented in Geneva
Switzerland Janáček, Kát’a Kabanová: Soloists, Choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève (chorus master: Alan Woodbridge), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Tomáš Netopil (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Genève, 21.10.2022. (ALL)
Brian Jagde stars in a Tosca at Opéra Bastille which will take your breath away
France Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Chorus and Orchestra of l’Opéra national de Paris / Paolo Bortolameolli (conductor). Opéra Bastille, Paris, 20.10.2022. (SL)
A slightly more mature Carmen from Juventus Lyrica
Argentina Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Juventus Lyrica / Hernán Sánchez Arteaga (conductor), Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 14.10.2022. (JSJ)
Ailyn Pérez and Juan Diego Flórez star in Richard Jones’s enthralling Covent Garden La bohème
United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Kevin John Edusei (conductor). Broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 20.10.2022. (JPr)
