Russian Federation Wagner: Die Walküre, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Mariinsky II, St. Petersburg, 5.3.2015 (JMI)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Heady Soundworld of Weill/Brecht’s Mahagonny Recreated at Covent Garden
United Kingdom Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (sung in English): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 10.03.2015 (CC)
Surreal Magic Flute Has Its Rewards and Limitations
United Kingdom Mozart, The Magic Flute:(Revival Premiere): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/ Lothar Koenigs (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 13.2.2015 (GPu)
A Perceptive and Witty Ariadne auf Naxos
United States Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists, Curtis Opera Theatre and Opera Philadelphia, Chas Rader-Schieber (director), David Zinn (set designer), Jacob A. Climer (costume designer), Mike Inwood (lighting designer), Curtis Symphony Orchestra, George Manahan (conductor), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 8.3.2015 (BJ)
2Faced Dance Offers Seamless Spectacle of Dance and Light
United Kingdom, Baranowski, MacRae, Dreaming in Code: 2Faced Dance, The Place, London, 10.3.2015 (J.O’D)
Strength of Emotion in English Touring’s Siege of Calais
United Kingdom Donizetti, L’assedio di Calais (The Siege of Calais): Chorus & Orchestra of English Touring Opera/Jeremy Silver. Hackney Empire, London, 1.3.2015 (CC)
Good Singing, but Scottish Opera’s Orfeo is a Hotchpotch
United Kingdom Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice: Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera, The Chorus of Orfeo ed Euridice / Kenneth Montgomery (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 7.3.2015 (SRT)
Gergiev Conducts Wagner in St. Petersburg
Russian Federation Wagner: Das Rheingold, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor), Mariinsky II, St. Petersburg, 4.3.2015 (JMI)
