United Kingdom Bizet/Brook, La Tragédie de Carmen: Soloists of Pop-Up Opera / Berrak Dyer (musical director). Asylum Chapel, Peckham, London, 25.9.2018. (MB)
Pop-Up Opera’s Thought-Provoking Approach to La Tragédie de Carmen
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Ambitious NEBT’s Remembrance Marks the Centenary of the Armistice
United Kingdom New English Ballet Theatre – Remembrance/The Four Seasons: Peacock Theatre, London, 28.9.2018. (JO’D)
Ne Quittez Pas – Reimagining Poulenc’s La voix humaine
United States Festival O18 [3] – Ne Quittez Pas: Soloists / Christopher Allen (music director & pianist), Opera Philadelphia, Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia. 22.9.2018. (RP)
Sky on Swings – Love in the Time of Alzheimer’s
United States Festival O18 [2] – Lembit Beecher, Sky on Swings: Soloists and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Geoffrey McDonald (conductor), Opera Philadelphia, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts – Perelman Theater, Philadelphia, 22.9.2018. (RP)
McVicar’s Traviata for WNO Tells the Story Well and Moves an Audience as it Should
United Kingdom Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2018. (GPu)
Brenda Rae Is a Stunning Lucia for Opera Philadelphia
United States Festival O18 [1] – Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Opera Philadelphia, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 21.9.2018. (RP)
A Stirring Don Carlo in a Powerful Production at LA Opera
United States Verdi, Don Carlo: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera/James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 22.9.2018. (JRo)
(c) Cory Weaver
Piotr Beczala Proves to Be an Artistic Heir to Alfredo Kraus in Teatro Real’s Faust
Spain Gounod, Faust: Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra/Dan Ettinger (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 22 & 23.9.2018. (JMI)
