Italy Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) (1) – Rossini, Il turco in Italia: Filarmonica Gioachino Rossini/Speranza Scappucci (conductor), Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, 9.8.2016. (JB)
Speranza Scappucci’s Conducting of Il turco in Italia Impresses
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Carmen with a Twist: a Tremendous Success!
Sweden Bizet, Uggle-Carin: Soloists, chorus, dancers, fiddlers, instrumentalists, Jonas Dominique (conductor). Dala-Floda Opera Festival, Dala-Floda, Dalecarlia, Sweden. 10.8.2016 (premiere). (GF)
Ernani Makes A Timely Return To Buenos Aires
Argentina Verdi, Ernani: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Buenos Aires Lírica, Conductor: Juan Casasbellas. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 5.8.2016. (JSJ)
Buenos Aires Lírica’s Ernani. Photo credit: Liliana Morsia.
A Nicely Played but Uneven Don Giovanni at the 2016 Quincena Musical de San Sebastien
Spain Mozart, Don Giovanni: Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Coro Easo, Manuel Hernández-Silva (conductor), Kursaal Auditorium, San Sebastian, 13.8.2016. (JMI)
Fine Singing in Atrocious Production of Die Liebe der Danae
Austria Salzburg Festival (5) – Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger), Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 8.8.2016. (MB)
The Exterminating Angel Receives a Fine Salzburg Baptism
Austria Salzburg Festival (1) – Adès, The Exterminating Angel: Soloists, Salzburger Bachchor, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien / Thomas Adès (conductor), Haus für Mozart, Salzburg, 5.8.2016. (MB)
The Peralada Festival Continues with a New Production of Turandot
Spain Puccini, Turandot: Liceu Orchestra, Coro Intermezzo, Gianpaolo Bisanti (conductor), Castle Gardens Auditorium, Peralada, 6.8.2016. (JMI)
Plenty of Flames – but no Real Fire – from the Bolshoi Ballet
United Kingdom Boris Asafiev, The Flames of Paris: Soloists and Artists of the Bolshoi Ballet, Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre / Pavel Sorokin (conductor), Royal Opera House, London, 6.8.2016. (JPr)
