Opera & Ballet – Page 24 – Seen and Heard International

Persuasive contemporary staging of Nabucco in Düsseldorf enhanced by great singing

26/10/202403/10/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Verdi, Nabucco: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Deutsche Oper am Rhein / Katharina Müllner (conductor). Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf, 29.9.2024. (DMD)

Lyric Opera of Chicago stages a Fidelio for the twenty-first century

26/10/202402/10/2024 by James Zychowicz

United Kingdom Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 29.9.2024. (JLZ)

Elza van den Heever (Leonore) and Russell Thomas (Florestan) © Todd Rosenberg

Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners hums along at Opera Philadelphia

26/10/202402/10/2024 by Rick Perdian

United States Mazzoli, The Listeners: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus & Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 27.9.2024. (RP)

Rehanna Thelwell (Angela Rose) © Steven Pisano

Ariadne auf Naxos opens the season in Zurich with Ziyi Dai as a phenomenal Zerbinetta

26/10/202430/09/2024 by Michael Fischer

Switzerland R. Strauss, Ariadne Auf Naxos: Soloists, Philharmonia Zurich / Markus Poschner (conductor). Zurich Opera, 25.9.2024. (MF)

Andreas Homoki’s *Ariadne auf Naxos* for Zurich Opera © Monika Rittershaus

Nánási rightly conducts Tchaikovsky’s rich Eugene Onegin score and not Huffman’s blank stage

26/10/202429/09/2024 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Ballet & Opera / Henrik Nánási (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 26.9.2024. (AK)

Gordon Bintner (Eugene Onegin) and Liparit Avetisyan (Lensky) © Tristram Kenton

Puccini’s Suor Angelica felt like a return to the great days of ENO

26/10/202429/09/2024 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Puccini, Suor Angelica (sung in English): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Corinna Niemeyer (conductor). London Coliseum, 27.9.2024 (CC)

Annabella Vesela-Ellis (Novice Nun) and Gaynor Keeble (Mistress of the Novices) © Genevieve Girling

An outstanding Benjamin Bernheim dominates the Met’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann revival

26/10/202427/09/2024 by Edward Sava-Segal

United States Offenbach, Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 24.9.2024. (ES-S)

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (background, Nicklausse), Erin Morley (Olympia), and Benjamin Bernheim (Hoffmann) © Karen Almond/Met Opera

Emily D’Angelo soars in Tesori’s gripping and powerful Grounded on the Met’s 2024/25 opening night

26/10/202426/09/2024 by Rick Perdian

United States Jeanine Tesori, Grounded: Soloists, Men of the Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 23.9.2024. (RP)