Opera & Ballet – Page 30 – Seen and Heard International

Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide is yet another triumph for the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

11/09/2024 by Andreas Bücker

Germany Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024 [2] – Nicola Antonio Porpora’s Ifigenia in Aulide: Soloists, Actors, Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Markgräfliches Opernhaus, Bayreuth, 7.9.2024. (AB)

Porpora’s *Ifigenia in Aulide* Act I © Clemens Manser Photography

Garsington Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was a Proms evening of musical magic

11/09/2024 by Keith McDonnell

United Kingdom PROM 68 – Garsington Opera’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Soloists, Garsington Opera Youth Company, Philharmonia Orchestra / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 10.9.2024. (KMcD)

Lucy Crowe (Tytania) and Daniel Vening (Bottom) © BBC/Chris Christodoulou

Full-throttle celebration of Die Fledermaus at Musikfest Bremen

10/09/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

United Kingdom Musikfest Bremen 2024 [2] – Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus: Soloists, Musikfest Bremen Chorus, Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski (conductor). Die Glocke, Bremen, 6.9.2024. (DMD)

Marc Minkowski, Alina Wunderlin, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, and Christoph Filler © Patric Leo

Captivating Il trovatore in a magnificent open-air setting in Braunschweig

09/09/2024 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists, Chorus, Extra-Chorus of Staatstheater Braunschweig, Staatsorchester Braunschweig / Srba Dinić (conductor). Burgplatz, Braunschweig, 1.9.2024. (DM-D)

Stefanie Graeber as Azucena’s mother © Joseph Ruben Heicks

Strong voices make a winner of San Francisco Opera’s season-opening Un Ballo

10/09/202408/09/2024 by Harvey Steiman

United States Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Eun Sun Kim (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 6.9.2024. (HS)

Judit Kutasi (Ulrica) and Michael Fabiano (Gustavo III) © Cory Weaver/SFO

Cumbria Opera Group’s brand new work Kings, Witches, Lovers and Souls showcases the region’s mythic past

01/09/2024 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Jen Hartley, Kings, Witches, Lovers and Souls: Eleanor McIntosh (soprano), Anne Elizabeth Cooper (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Hill (baritone), Jonny Danciger (director), Cumbria Youth Chorus, Cumbria Opera Group / Joe Davies & Alastair Burton (co-musical directors), Penrith Playhouse, 31.8.2024. (SRT)

Eleanor McIntosh (soprano), Anne Elizabeth Cooper (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Hill (baritone) and members of Cumbria Opera Group © Christopher Tribble

The State Ballet of Georgia’s dancers speak the language of Swan Lake with consummate fluency and eloquence

01/09/2024 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom The State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake: Dancers of the State Ballet of Georgia, Orchestra of English National Opera / Papuna Gvaberidze (conductor). London Coliseum, 28.8.2024. (JO’D)

Marcelo Soares (Baron von Rothbart) © Sasha Gusov

An excellent cast brings Peter Sellars’s Salzburg production of The Gambler vividly to life

01/09/202431/08/2024 by Mark Berry

Austria Salzburg Festival 2024 [10] – Prokofiev, The Gambler: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Timur Zangiev (conductor). Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 25.8.2024. (MB)

[l-r] Sean Panikkar (Alexey), Violeta Urmana (Babulenka) and Asmik Grigorian (Polina) © SF/Ruth Walz)

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