Opera & Ballet – Page 45 – Seen and Heard International

Salieri’s The School for Jealousy is offered with flair and improvisatory flourish in Oxford

08/07/202507/07/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Salieri, La scuola de’ gelosi: Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 2.7.2025. (CR)

Oldenburg’s The Cunning Little Vixen is an excellent ensemble effort

07/07/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Janáĉek, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Chorus, Extra chorus, and Youth and Children’s chorus of Oldenburg State Theatre, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester / Vito Cristofaro (conductor). Oldenburg State Theatre, 2.7.2025. (DM-D)

Arthur Bruce (Forester), Paul Brady (Harashta), Seumas Begg (Schoolmaster), Seungweon Lee (Parson) and Seung Jin Park (Innkeeper) © Stephan Walzl

Witty production enhances beautiful singing in Hamburg’s Le nozze di Figaro revival

03/07/202502/07/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists and Chorus of the Staatsoper Hamburg. Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Nicholas Carter (conductor). Staatsoper Hamburg, 29.6.2025. (DM-D)

Hamburg State Opera’s *Le nozze di Figaro* (2015) © Karl Forster

The Cunning Little Vixen in Münster – musically convincing but a production which fails to coalesce

02/07/202501/07/2025 by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany Janáĉek, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Chorus and Extra chorus of Theater Münster, Children’s chorus of Gymnasium Paulinum. Münster Sinfonieorchester / Golo Berg (conductor). Theater Münster, 28.6.2025. (DM-D)

Wioletta Hebrowska (Fox and Adriana Kučerová (Vixen) © Bettina Stöss

Garsington offers a vision of hope as well as freedom in a musically urgent account of Fidelio

30/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [4] – Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, & Garsington Opera Chorus, The English Concert / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 27.6.2025. (CR)

Robert Murray (Florestan) and Sally Matthews (Leonore) © Julian Guidera

Longborough’s Pélleas et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific!

05/11/202530/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande: Soloists, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 28.6.2025. (CP)

Julian Close (Arkel) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Eyvazov is a compelling Hermann and Netrebko an expressive Lisa in a Vienna revival of The Queen of Spades

30/06/202529/06/2025 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Timur Zangiev (conductor). Livestreamed from the Vienna State Opera (directed by Dominik Kepczynski), 27.6.2025. (JPr)

Yusif Eyvazov (Hermann) and Anna Netrebko (Lisa) © WS/Michael Pöhn

Nadine Sierra is Violetta in an excellent La traviata at Madrid’s Teatro Real

29/06/2025 by José Irurzun

Spain Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Real / Henrik Nánási (conductor). Teatro Real, Madrid, 24.6.2025. (JMI)

Act III of Teatro Real’s *La traviata* © J. del Real

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