Opera & Ballet – Page 4 – Seen and Heard International

An excellent Wexford performance cannot disguise the flaws in Delius’s The Magic Fountain

24/11/202528/10/2025 by Robert Beattie

Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Delius, The Magic Fountain: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Francesco Cilluffo (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 25.10.2025. (RB)

Wexford Festival Opera’s *The Magic Fountain* © Pádraig Grant

A rare chance to hear Verdi’s French version of Il trovatore at Wexford

24/11/202528/10/2025 by Robert Beattie

Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2025 [1] – Verdi, Le trouvère: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Marcus Bosch (conductor). O’Reilly Theatre, Wexford, 24.10.2025. (RB)

Kseniia Nikolaieva (Azucena) © Pádraig Grant

L.A. Dance Project in Beverly Hills: a memorable pairing of dance, music and art

24/11/202527/10/2025 by Jane Rosenberg

United States Various, Gems: A Triptych by Benjamin Millepied: Dancers of L.A. Dance Project. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 24.10.2025. (JRo)

L.A. Dance Project in *Reflections* © Jade Ellis

Conductor Eun Sun Kim and a committed cast make Parsifal soar at San Francisco Opera

24/11/202527/10/2025 by Harvey Steiman

United States Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Eun Sun Kim (conductor). War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 25.10.2025. (HS)

Klingsor (Falk Struckmann) reprimands Kundry (Tanja Ariane Baumgartner) in SFO’s *Parsifal* © Cory Weaver

Britten’s Albert Herring provided impressive entertainment in ENO’s first foray to Salford’s Lowry

24/11/202526/10/2025 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Britten, Albert Herring: Soloists, members of the Orchestra of English National Opera / Daniel Cohen (conductor). Lyric Theatre, The Lowry, Salford, 22.10.2025. (MC)

Carolyn Dobbin (Florence Pike) and Emma Bell (Lady Billows) © Genevieve Girling

Nadine Sierra is the Amina of your dreams in the Met’s new La Sonnambula

24/11/202524/10/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United States Bellini, La Sonnambula: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Riccardo Frizza (conductor). Recorded live (directed by Gary Halbvorson) at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 18.10.2025 and viewed as an encore showing at the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex. (JPr)

Nadine Sierra (Amina) in *La Sonnambula* Act II © Marty Sohl/Met Opera

Lyric Opera of Chicago offers a Medea for the twenty-first century

24/11/202522/10/2025 by James Zychowicz

United States Cherubini, Medea: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Civic Opera House, Chicago, 17.10.2025. (JLZ)

*Medea* at the Lyric Opera of Chicago © Andrew Cioffi

Disappointing new Lohengrin in Hannover redeemed by some of the singing

24/11/202518/10/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Wagner, Lohengrin: Soloists and Chorus of Hannover State Opera. Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover / Stephan Zilias (conductor). Hannover State Opera, 12.10.2025. (DM-D)