SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, THEATRE , BROADCASTS AND FILMS
Collected opera and ballet reviews
United Kingdom English National Ballet’s Raymonda: Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor). 18.1.2022. (JPr)
Austria Liebeslieder (Jerome Robbins’s Other Dances, Lucinda Childs’s Concerto, and George Balanchine’s Liebeslieder Walzer): Dancers of Vienna State Ballet, Johanna Wallroth (soprano), Stephanie Maitland (mezzo-soprano), Hiroshi Amako (tenor), Ilja Kazakov (bass), Stephen Hopkins, Sarah Tysman and Igor Zapravdin (pianists). Livestreamed (directed by Balázs Delbó) from the Wiener Staatsoper, 14.1.2022. (JPr)
United Kingdom Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor/fortepiano continuo). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 9.1.2022. (CC)
United States Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera / Daniele Rustioni (conductor). Metropolian Opera, New York, 8.1.2022. (RP)
United Kingdom Scottish Ballet’s The Secret Theatre: Dancers of Scottish Ballet, Scottish Ballet Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland and Jean-Claude Picard (conductors). Currently streaming (directed for the screen by Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple) on Marquee TV. (JPr)
United States Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Daniele Rustioni (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 31.12.2021. (RP)
Germany Léhar, Giuditta: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra des Bayerisches Staatsoper / Titus Engel (conductor). Nationaltheater, Munich, 18.12.2021. (ALL)
United States Joel Thompson, The Snowy Day: Soloists, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra / Patrick Summers (conductor). Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX, 9.12.2021. (RP)
