Stefan Herheim’s Staging of The Queen of Spades Comes to Covent Garden

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Members of the Tiffin Children’s Chorus and Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding) and Extra Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 13.1.2019. (MB)

Vladimir Stoyanov as Yeletsky and cast in The Queen of Spades
(c) Catherine Ashmore

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Three Star Singers Breathe Life into Cilea’s Flawed Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met

United StatesUnited States Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of The Metropolitan Opera, New York / Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Broadcast Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera to Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 12.1.2019. (JPr)

Anna Netrebko (Adriana), Piotr Beczała (Maurizio) & Anita Rachvelishvili (Princess)
(c) Ken Howard/Met Opera

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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Evocative Music of Third Coast Percussion

United StatesUnited States Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Third Coast Percussion: Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 10.1.2019. (JRo)

Hubbard Street
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago – (l to r) Kellie Epperheimer, Jacqueline Burnett,
Adrienne Lipson, Alicia Delgadillo, and Rena Butler in Ignore (c) Kevin Parry

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