Opera & Ballet – Page 400 – Seen and Heard International

Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick: Expansive Yet Intimate

08/11/201502/11/2015 by Jane Rosenberg

Heggie: Moby Dick, LA Opera, James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 31.10.2015-28.11.2015 (JRo) Cast: Captain Ahab: Jay Hunter Morris Greenhorn: Joshua Guerrero Starbuck, first mate: Morgan Smith Queequeg, a harpooner: Musa Ngqungwana Pip, cabin boy: Jacqueline Echols Stubb, second mate: Malcolm MacKenzie Flask, third mate: Matthew O’Neill Captain Gardiner: Nicholas Brownlee … Read more

Gremlins hit WNO’s I Puritani in Llandudno.

08/11/201501/11/2015 by Robert Farr

ipuritani-660-9 — WNO’s *I Puritani* (c) Welsh National Opera

United Kingdom Bellini. I Puritani: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Carlo Rizzi, Venue Cymru (North Wales Theatre), Llandudno. 27.10.2015. (RJF)

Updating Madness in Handel’s Orlando Proves Problematical for WNO

18/06/201901/11/2015 by Robert Farr

United Kingdom Handel, Orlando: Soloists, and reduced Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Renaldo Alessandrini (conductor), Venue Cymru (North Wales Theatre), Llandudno, 28.10.2015. (RJF)

ORLAND_WNO, Orlando; Lawrence Zazzo, Angelica; Rebecca Evans, Medoro; Robin Blaze, Dorinda; Fflur Wyn, Zoroastro; Daniel Grice, — WNO’s *Orlando* (c) Bill Cooper

Royal Academy Present Outstanding Figaro Set in Cuba

08/11/201501/11/2015 by Mark Berry

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Royal Academy Opera Chorus (chorus master: Frederick Brown), Royal Academy Sinfonia / Jane Glover (conductor), Hackney Empire Theatre, London, 30.10.2015 (MB)

yWmU9CLyNVX8VerOMYz65dhFloqalO-l_-Oxbt0QD0U,aKfjDy6q0JB648AP-pkoSocaAk9m3t_sYaHaSYdzZDg — Emily Garland as the Countess (c) Robert Workman

Subtle and Melancholic Balletic Meditation on Odyssean Themes

08/11/201529/10/2015 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom Various composers, No Lander: Riccardo Buscarini/TIR Danza/Artstrust Productions, The Place, London, 28.10.2015 (J.O’D)

NoLander (photo by Veronica Billi (5) — *NoLander* (photo by Veronica Billi)

An Excellent Production of Rossi’s Orfeo from the Early Opera Company

08/11/201529/10/2015 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Rossi, Orfeo: Soloists, Orchestra of the Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn (conductor). Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London, 23.10.2015 (MB)

A collaboration between Shakespeare's Globe and The Royal Opera 23 October - 15 November Running time: 2 hours 50 mins, including two intervals CREATIVES Music Luigi Rossi English translation Christopher Cowell Conductor Christian Curnyn Director Keith Warner Designer Nicky Shaw Choreographer Karl Schreiner Cast Louise Alder Eurydice Mary Bevan Orpheus Graeme Broadbent Satyr / Pluto Jennifer Davis Euphrosyne / Lachesis Emily Edmonds Aglaea / Atropos Lauren Fagan Thalia / Clotho / Hymen Keri Fuge Cupid Verena Gunz Aegea Caitlin Hulcup Aristaeus Sky Ingram Venus Mark Milhofer Momus / Alkippe / Jove Philip Smith Endymion / Charon — *Orpheus* – Louise Alder (Euridice) & Mary Bevan (Orfeo)
(c) Stephen Cummiskey, Royal Opera and Shakespeare’s Globe.

Now a Forgotten Mascagni Opera is Another Convincing Revival at the Wexford Festival

08/11/201529/10/2015 by José Irurzun

Ireland Ireland Mascagni, Guglielmo Ratcliff: Wexford Festival Orchestra, Francesco Cilluffo (conductor), National Opera House, Wexford, 28.10.2015 (JMI)

A Compelling Performance in Wexford of a Seldom-Staged Delius Opera

08/11/201528/10/2015 by José Irurzun

Ireland Ireland Delius: Koanga, Wexford Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Stephen Barlow (conductor), National Opera House, Wexford, 27.10.2015 (JMI)

2015-10-28_23-38-29 — Photo: Clive Barda

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