United Kingdom Peter Darrell’s The Nutcracker: Dancers and Orchestra of Scottish Ballet / Jean-Claude Picard (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 16.12.2014 (SRT)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
A Triumphant Anna Bolena with Consummate Style
Donizetti, Anna Bolena: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Patrick Summers (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 6.12.2014 (JLZ)
© Todd Rosenberg Photography 2014
Patrice Chéreau’s Masterly Janáček Staging Memorably Revived in Berlin
Germany Janáček, From the House of the Dead: Soloists, Chorus of the Berlin State Opera (chorus master: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Schillertheater, Berlin, 13.12.2014 (MB)
A Moving Meistersinger from the Met
United States Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / James Levine (conductor). Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 13.12.2014. (JPr)
Fioroni Focuses on Political Implications and Sadistic Undercurrents in Turandot
Germany Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding) and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin / Ivan Repušič (conductor), Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 12.12.2014 (MB)
Rossini’s Guglielmo Tell: Grand Opera Even in Concert Version
United States Rossini, Guglielmo Tell: Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Noseda(director and conductor), Claudio Fenoglio (chorus master) Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall, New York 7.12.2014 (SSM)
Sighs of Pleasure at ENB’s Nutcracker
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker: English National Ballet Philharmonic, English National Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland (conductor), The London Coliseum, 11.12.2014 (J.O’D)
Candoco Demonstrates that Disability Is No Impediment to Dancing
United Kingdom Playing Another: Candoco Dance Company, Southbank Centre, London, 9.12.2014 (J.O’D)
