Germany Wagner: Das Rheingold, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kirill Petrenko (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 27.2.2015 (JMI)
Triumphant Reception Ends Das Rheingold
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
More Birmingham Royal Ballet Success with their ‘Living Doll’
United Kingdom Léo Delibes, Coppélia: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Paul Murphy (Conductor), Birmingham Hippodrome, 24.2.2015 (GR).
Madama Butterfly: In Traditional Staging in Munich
Germany Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Stefano Ranzani (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 26.2.2015 (JMI)
Inventive Performance of Handel’s Ariodante from Young Cincinnati Group
United States Handel, Ariodante: Soloists, Cincinnati Chamber Opera. Asencion & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH. 27.2.2015 (RDA)
Sensuality, Symmetry, but also Irritation in Northern Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet
United Kingdom Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet: Northern Ballet, Northern Ballet Sinfonia / John Pryce-Jones (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 26.3.2015 (SRT)
Musical strengths of Purcell’s Indian Queen marred by baleful, self-indulgent production
United Kingdom Purcell, The Indian Queen: Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: Christopher Bucknall) and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Laurence Cummings (conductor). London Coliseum, 26.2.2015. (MB)
Print Room’s Opening Dance Programme Celebrates Heyday of Coronet Cinema
United Kingdom Various composers, 1898: Contemporary Dance Festival, Print Room at the Coronet, London, 23.2.2015 (J.O’D)
Refreshed and Reinvigorated Die Zauberflöte at Covent Garden
United Kingdom Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Soloists, Royal Opera House, Chorus (chorus master: Renato Balsadonna), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 23.2.2015 (MB)