United Kingdom Verdi, La traviata: Heritage Opera with keyboard and string quartet accompaniment/ James Longstaffe (conductor), Lowther Pavilion, Lytham, Lancashire, 9.11.2016. (MC)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Zurich Opera’s Confused and Confusing Entführung
Switzerland Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail: Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor), Zurich Opera, Zurich. 6.11.2016. (JR)
Final Revival of Schlesinger’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann Indicates Time is Ripe for a New Production
United Kingdom Offenbach, Les Contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Evelino Pidò (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 7.11.2016. (JPr)
A Hypnotic and Hyperbolic Akhnaten
United States Glass, Akhnaten: Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra of LA Opera/Matthew Aucoin (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 5.11.2016. (JRo)
Perhaps This Rarely Seen Donizetti Opera Deserves to Be Overlooked
Ireland Donizetti, Maria de Rudenz: Wexford Festival Orchestra and Chorus / Andrew Greenwood (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House,, Wexford, 3.11.2016. (JMI)
Enterprising Russian Opera Double-Bill from Guildhall School of Music
United Kingdom Stravinsky, Mavra, and Tchaikovsky, Iolanta: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Dominic Wheeler (conductor). Silk Street Theatre, London, 2.11.2016. (MB)
Excellent Rusalka at Berlin’s Komische Oper Shows Benefits of the Repertoire System
Germany Dvořák, Rusalka (sung in German): Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus (chorus master: David Cavelius) of the Komische Oper, Berlin / Henrik Nánási (conductor). Komische Oper, Berlin, 30.10.2016. (MB)
Natalia Osipova is Incandescent in Revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky and Martinů, Anastasia (Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan): Soloists, corps de ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Simon Hewett (conductor). Broadcast to the Cineworld Cinema, Basildon, Essex. 2.11.2016. (JPr)
(c) Tristram Kenton