New Zealand Mozart, The Magic Flute: Freemasons New Zealand Opera Chorus, Orchestra Wellington, Conductor: Wyn Davies. St.James Theatre, Wellington. 28.5.2016. (PM)
Profoundly Engaging – New Zealand Opera’s The Magic Flute
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Palais Garnier Celebrates Shakespeare’s 400th Anniversary with Reimann’s Lear
United Kingdom Reimann, Lear: Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: Alessandro di Stefano) and Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris, Fabio Luisi (conductor). Palais Garnier, Paris, 29.5.2016. (MB)
No Sanitized Love Affair in a Gritty Carmen
United States Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera / Carlo Montanaro (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 27.5.2016. (HS)
Mascagni/Leoncavallo Double Bill – a Fitting Way to Celebrate WNO’s 70th Birthday
United Kingdom Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana & Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 26.5.2016. (GPu)
Joyce DiDonato is Superb as Romeo at the Liceu
Spain Bellini, I Capuleti è I Montecchi: Liceu Orchestra and Chorus/Riccardo Frizza (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 28 & 29.5.2016. (JMI)
Enescu’s Oedipe – Covent Garden’s Most Important Event this Season?
United Kingdom Enescu, Oedipe: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: Genevieve Ellis), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Leo Hussain (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 23.5.2016. (MB)
(c) Clive Barda
Fantastic Fidelio at the Teatro Colón
Argentina Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra. Conductor: Francisco Rettig, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 20.5.2016. (JSJ)
Kirill Petrenko Leads Koch and Kaufmann in a Spectacular Die Meistersinger
Germany Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chorus, Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 26.5.2016. (JMI)
in Die Meistersinger (c) Wilfried Hösl