Spain Bellini, I Capuleti è I Montecchi: Liceu Orchestra and Chorus/Riccardo Frizza (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 28 & 29.5.2016. (JMI)
Joyce DiDonato is Superb as Romeo at the Liceu
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Enescu’s Oedipe – Covent Garden’s Most Important Event this Season?
United Kingdom Enescu, Oedipe: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: Genevieve Ellis), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Leo Hussain (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 23.5.2016. (MB)
(c) Clive Barda
Fantastic Fidelio at the Teatro Colón
Argentina Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra. Conductor: Francisco Rettig, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 20.5.2016. (JSJ)
Kirill Petrenko Leads Koch and Kaufmann in a Spectacular Die Meistersinger
Germany Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chorus, Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 26.5.2016. (JMI)
in Die Meistersinger (c) Wilfried Hösl
A Disappointing Lucia Is Revived in Munich
Germany Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chorus, Oksana Lyniv (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 25.5.2016. (JMI)
San Francisco Goes ‘On The Town’
United States Bernstein, On the Town: Soloists, San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (Ragnar Bohlin, director), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 25.5.2016. (HS)
Despite Good Choreography Scottish Ballet’s Monochrome Swan Lake Lacks Coherence
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake: Scottish Ballet, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 25.5.2016. (SRT)
Photo by Andy Ross
Angela Denoke Triumphs in The Makropulos Affair
Germany Janáček: Věc Makropulos, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Chorus, Tomáš Hanus (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 24.5.2016 (JMI)
