Opera & Ballet – Page 4 – Seen and Heard International

You will find Asmik Grigorian’s tour de force in Paris Opera’s Il trittico hard to forget

20/05/202519/05/2025 by Jim Pritchard

France Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra national de Paris / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Broadcast live from the Opéra Bastille (directed by Mathilde Jobbé-Duval) on 16.5.2025 and available until 16.6.2025. (JPr)

Paris Opera’s *Gianni Schicchi* © Guergana Damianova

A concert version of Handel’s Tamerlano in Madrid falls below expectations

20/05/202519/05/2025 by José Irurzun

Spain Handel, Tamerlano (concert performance): Soloists, Freiburger Barockorchester / René Jacobs (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 16.5.2025. (JMI)

Conductor René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester and Soloists © J. del Real

In Magdeburg’s Fidelio, the music wins in a production of distortions

20/05/202519/05/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus, and Extras, Theater Magdeburg, and Magdeburger Singakademie. Magdeburg Philharmonic / Pavel Poplawski (conductor). Theater Magdeburg, 17.5.2025. (DM-D)

Theater Magdeburg’s *Fidelio* © Nilz Böhme

In Beverly Hills, Mark Morris peppers his Pepperland with nostalgia

18/05/2025 by Jane Rosenberg

United States The Beatles and Ethan Iverson (composers), Mark Morris (choreographer), Pepperland: Dancers of Mark Morris Dance Group, Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble. The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Beverly Hills, 16.5.2025. (JRo)

Mark Morris’s *Pepperland* (Seattle 2018) © Mat Hayward

Sondra Radvanovsky is an outstanding Odabella in Teatro Real’s Attila

17/05/2025 by José Irurzun

Spain Verdi, Attila (concert performance): Soloists, Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra / Nicola Luisotti (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 14.5.2025. (JMI)

Michael Fabiano, Sondra Radanovsky, ChristianVan Horn and Artur Ruciński © J. del Real

Fine singing and a convincing production for Oldenburg’s Les contes d’Hoffmann

17/05/202517/05/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Offenbach, Les contes d’Hoffmann: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Vito Cristofaro (conductor). Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, 6.5.2025. (DM-D)

Dorothee Bienert (Nicklausse/Muse) and Jason Kim (Hoffmann) © Stephan Walzl

Barrie Kosky’s minimally staged, flawed Royal Opera Walküre, is great music theatre nonetheless

16/05/202515/05/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Peter Jones) from the Royal Opera House, London, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 14.5.2025. (JPr)

Soloman Howard (Hunding), Natalya Romaniw (Sieglinde) and Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund) © RBO/Monika Rittershaus

John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Met: relentlessly forward, less inward

16/05/202514/05/2025 by Edward Sava-Segal

United States John Adams, Antony and Cleopatra: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / John Adams (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 12.5.2025. (ES-S)

Gerald Finley (Antony) and Julia Bullock (Cleopatra) in Antony and Cleopatra © Karen Almond/Met Opera

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