Switzerland Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea: Soloists and Chorus of Zurich Opera, Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich / Ottavio Dantone (conductor), Zurich Opera 24.6.2018. (JR)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
The Valencia Season Comes to a Close with La clemenza di Tito
Spain Mozart, La clemenza di Tito: Generalitat Valenciana Chorus, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra / Nimrod David Pfeffer (conductor), Palau de Les Arts Auditorium, Valencia, 24.6. 2018. (JMI)
An Imaginative Staging of La damnation de Faust at the Palau de Les Arts
Spain Berlioz, La damnation de Faust: Generalitat Valenciana Chorus, Comunitat Valenciana Orchestra / Roberto Abbado (conductor), Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 23.6.2018. (JMI)
Semperoper Ballett Present a Triple-Bill of Work by William Forsythe
United Kingdom Semperoper Ballett’s All Forsythe: Sadler’s Wells, London, 21.6.2018. (JO’D)
A Seventeenth-Century Embarrassment of Operatic Riches
United States Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea: Soloists, Members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Annalisa Pappano’s Catacoustic Consort / Gary Thor Wedow (conductor), School for Creative and Performing Arts, Corbett Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio. 21.6.2018. (RDA)
Annilese Miskimmon’s Dark and Thought-Provoking Glyndebourne Madama Butterfly
United Kingdom 2018 Glyndebourne Festival Opera – Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor). Directed for the screen by François Roussillon and broadcast to Cineworld Basildon, 21.6.2018. (JPr)
Sparkling and Vital Falstaff from Farnes and Philharmonia Orchestra
United Kingdom Verdi, Falstaff: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Richard Farnes (conductor), Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 18.6.2018. (CR)
A Seldom Performed Schubert Opera has its La Scala Premiere
Italy Schubert, Fierrabras: Teatro alla Scala Chorus and Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor), Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 19.6.2018. (JMI)
