Spain Britten, Billy Budd: Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Real / Ivor Bolton (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 22.2.2017. (JMI)
An Outstanding New Production of Billy Budd Graces the Teatro Real Stage
Opera & Ballet
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Turandot in Beijing: Grandeur, Myth and Fantasy with a Surprise Ending
Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, China NCPA Chorus & Orchestra / Lü Jia (conductor). National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, 17.2.2017. (RP) Cast: Turandot – Lise Lindstrom Emperor Altoum – Liu Naiqi Timur – Haojiang Tian Calaf – Marco Berti Liù – Yao Hong Ping – Liu Songhu Pang – Li Xiang Pong – Wang … Read more
A Dispiriting, Disappointing Premiere … and Not Really Opera Either
Spain Mendoza, La Ciudad de las Mentiras: Orchestra of Teatro Real / Titus Engel (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 20.2.2017. (JMI)
Two Singers Compensate Brilliantly for a Dramatically Flawed Tancredi
United States Rossini, Tancredi: Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 19.2.2017. (BJ)
Opera North Unleashes a ‘Floodtide of Fantasy’ in New Production of Cinderella
United Kingdom Rossini, Cinderella: Soloists and Chorus of Opera North / Wynn Davies (conductor), Grand Theatre, Leeds. 16.2.2017. (JL)
(c) Alistair Muir
John Adams’s Dense, Earnest Oratorio
United States John Adams: Kelley O’Connor, Tamara Mumford (mezzo-sopranos), Jay Hunter Morris (tenor), Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley (countertenors), San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus / Grant Gershon (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 16.2.2017. (HS)
Magdalene), Tamara Mumford (Martha) and countertenors Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings
and Nathan Medley (c) Stefan Cohen
New Carmen Riffs on Picasso’s Guernica
United States Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago / Harry Bicket (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 11.2.2017. (JLZ)
A Witty and Intelligent Production finds Contemporary Relevance in Semele
United Kingdom Handel, Semele: Mid Wales Opera, Soloists and Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music / Nicholas Cleobury, Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 8.2. 2017. (GPu)
