Italy Verdi: Il Trovatore: Orchestra and Chorus Teatro allcala, Daniele Rustioni (conductor), Milan’s Teatro alla Scala,18 & 20.2.2014 (JMI).
Il Trovatore: La Scala Could Do Better
Opera & Ballet
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Britten/Auden Opera Proves to be Excellent Ensemble Piece
United Kingdom Britten Paul Bunyan: Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English Touring Opera/Philip Sunderland. Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 17.02.2014 (CC)
New Life for Rossini’s “Barber”
United States Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Michele Mariotti (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 15.4.2014 (JLZ)
Great Conducting and Vocal Fireworks in Covent Garden’s Turandot
United Kingdom Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra / Nicola Luisotti in Andrei Serban’s 1984 production: designs by Sally Jacobs. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 17.2.2014. (JPr)
©Tristram Kenton
Pucccini’s Edgar: No Masterpiece But Undeservedly Neglected
Germany Puccini: Edgar, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Chor and Kinderchor der Oper Frankfurt, Marc Soustrot (conductor), Frankfurt Opernhaus, 16.2.2014 (JMI)
(c) Monika Rittershaus
Falstaff: Laughs at Any Cost
Germany Verdi: Falstaff, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Bertrand De Billy (conductor), Opernhaus Frankfurt, 15.2.2014 (JMI)
und das Ensemble
(c) Monika Rittershaus
Three More Diverse Dance Pieces at The Place
United Kingdom Simpson, Reinhardt, The Cinematic Orchestra, Resolution! 2014: The Sob in the Spine; You wave your dusty hands hello; Pace, Naomi Reynolds Dance, Mansoor Ali and Ellen Johansson, B-Hybrid Dance, The Place, London, 14.2.2014 (JO’D)
Fulham’s Götterdämmerung a Triumph of Ambition and Perseverance
United Kingdom Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists of Fulham Opera, Nick Fletcher (piano accompanist), Fiona Williams (stage director), St John’s Church, Fulham, London, 16.2.2014. (JPr)
