Opera & Ballet – Page 163 – Seen and Heard International

Unexpected double bill marks 20 years of the Royal Opera’s Young Artists programme

02/02/202519/05/2022 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Stravinsky and Schoenberg: Soloists, Britten Sinfonia / Michael Papadopoulos (conductor). Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 17.5.2022. (MB)

April Koyejo-Audiger (Parasha) in *Mavra* © Helen Murray

The Rameau Project’s Castor et Pollux evokes something of the composer’s authentic stagecraft

08/09/202219/05/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Rameau, Castor et Pollux (1737 version): Soloists, Rameau Project Choir & Orchestra / Jonathan Williams (conductor). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 15.5.2022. (CR)

Stefan Herheim’s tide of humanity reimagines Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in Berlin

08/09/202216/05/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Germany Wagner, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre: Soloists, actors, Orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin / Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor). Filmed (directed by Götz Filenius) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in November 2021 and now available on Marquee TV. (JPr)

Deutsche Oper Berlin’s *Das Rheingold* © Bernd Uhlig

It’s not just the glitter that makes the Metropolitan Opera’s Turandot one of the wonders of opera

08/09/202215/05/2022 by Rick Perdian

United States Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 11.5.2022. (RP)

Yonghoon Lee (Calàf) © Ken Howard/Met Opera

Der Rosenkavalier at the Bayerisches Staatsoper: the end of an era or the beginning of a new one?

08/09/202214/05/2022 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Germany R. Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra des Bayerisches Staatsoper / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor), Nationaltheater Munich, 11.5.2022 (ALL)

Marlis Petersen (Marschallin), Christof Fischesser (Ochs) and Samantha Hankey (‘Mariandel’) © Wilfried Hösl

Seattle Opera closes the season with a traditional Marriage of Figaro – with some new twists

08/09/202213/05/2022 by Zach Carstensen

United States Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists and Chorus of the Seattle Opera, Seattle Symphony / Alevtina Ioffe (conductor). McCaw Hall, Seattle, 8.5.2022. (ZC)

Michael Sumuel and Anya Matanovic in *Le nozze di Figaro* © Philip Newton

As the curtain fell on Opera Philadelphia’s Rigoletto, there were reasons to celebrate!

08/09/202213/05/2022 by Rick Perdian

United States Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus and Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 8.5.2022. (RP)

Wei Wu (Sparafucile), Kristen Choi (Maddalena) and Joshua Blue (Duke) © Dominic M. Mercier

Fidelio revelations from Equilbey and Insula Orchestra as she rethinks the familiar and meets it anew

08/09/202213/05/2022 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Beethoven, Fidelio (concert staging): Soloists, accentus; Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 11.5.2022. (CC)

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace (Leonore) and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Florestan) © Vincent Pontet

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