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Collected opera and ballet reviews
Austria 2017 Salzburg Festival [2] – Verdi, Aida: Soloists, Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Ernst Raffelsberger), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Riccardo Muti (conductor). Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, 12.8.2017. (MB)
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore: Festival Youth Production, Harrogate Festival, Savoy Theatre, Harrogate, Yorkshire 12.8.2017. (RJW)
Spain Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Easo Choir, Orquesta de Euskadi / Yi-Chen Lin (conductor), Kursaal, San Sebastian, 13.8.2017. (JMI)
Sweden Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Jacob Piamorex Moscowicz (piano), Anna Eklund Tarantino (director), The Barn, Strandbacken Public Park, Dala-Floda 9.8.2017. (GF)
United Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 31 – Berlioz – La Damnation de Faust: Soloists; Trinity Boys Choir; Monteverdi Choir; National Youth Choir of Scotland; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique / Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 8.8.2017. (CC)
Sweden Bizet, Uggle-Carin (Carmen): Soloists, Dala-Floda Opera Chorus, Children’s Chorus, Dancers, Orchestra / Alexander Nordwall (conductor), Strandbacken Folkets Park, Dala-Floda, Dalecarlia. 6.8.2017. (GF)
United Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 29 – Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina (orch. Dmitry Shostakovich): Soloists, Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, BBC Singers, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.8.2017. (JPr)
Italy Festival della Valle d’Itria [3] – Meyerbeer, Margherita d’Anjou: Soloists of the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia / Fabio Luisi (conductor), Palazzo Ducale, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, Puglia, 2.8.2017. (VV)
