Opera & Ballet – Page 4 – Seen and Heard International

Chelsea Opera Group’s most enjoyable performance of Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys

01/04/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Lalo, Le roi d’Ys (concert performance): Soloists, Chelsea Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra / Paul Wingfield (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 30.3.2025. (CC)

Previous Chelsea Opera Group performance at Cadogan Hall © Matthew Johnson

London Handel Festival 2025: Apollo e Dafne and The Choice of Hercules is a Thomas Guthrie show of excellence

02/04/202501/04/2025 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom London Handel Festival 2025 – Apollo e Dafne (HWV122) and The Choice of Hercules (HWV69): Soloists, La Nuova Musica / David Bates (conductor) with New English Ballet Theatre. Shoreditch Town Hall, 27.3.2025. (AK)

Dan D’Souza (Apollo) in *Apollo e Dafne* © Craig Fuller Photography

Benjamin Bernheim blazes as Werther at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris

31/03/2025 by Rick Perdian

France Massenet, Werther: Soloists, Chœur d’enfants de la Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Les Siècles / Marc Leroy-Calatayud (conductor).Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 28.3.2025. (RP)

Marina Viotti (Charlotte) and Benjamin Bernheim (Werther) © Vincent Pontet

Jonathan Dove’s new opera Uprising may prove a transformative experience for some

30/03/2025 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Jonathan Dove, Uprising: Soloists, RSNO Youth Chorus, RSNO Chorus Academy, RSNO Changed Voices, Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Ellie Slorach (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 28.3.2025. (SRT)

Ellie Slorach conducts Ffion Edwards (Lola) and the RSNO in *Uprising* in Glasgow © Katie Kean

A silly opera but a wonderful one: The Mozartists’s La finta giardiniera

29/03/2025 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Mozart, La finta giardiniera (concert performance, Bärenreiter edition, ed. Angermüller/Berke): Soloists. The Mozartists / Ian Page (conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 25.3.2025. (CC)

Experiments in Opera at The Tank presents solo operas by Jason Cady and Anna Heflin

28/03/2025 by Rick Perdian

United States Jason Cady, This Is Not About Natalie, Anna Heflin, The INcomplete Cosmicomics: Sarah Daniels (soprano and guitar), Aaron Wolff (actor and cello). Experiments in Opera, The Tank, New York, 22.3.2025. (RP)

Sarah Daniels (Kris) in *This Is Not About Natalie* © Reuben Radding

New production at Teatro Real of Mitridate, re di Ponto, Mozart’s first opera

28/03/2025 by José Irurzun

Spain Mozart, Mitridate, re di Ponto: Soloists, Teatro Real Orchestra / Ivor Bolton (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 23.3.2025. (JMI)

Franco Fagioli (Farnace) in a scene from Teatro Real’s *Mitridate, re di Ponto* © Javier del Real

Galili’s Ostrava production of The Cunning Little Vixen is a spectacular fusion of light, sound and movement

30/03/202528/03/2025 by Gregor Tassie

Czech Republic Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre / Adam Sedlický (conductor). Antonin Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava, 21.3.2025. (GT)