United Kingdom Hindson, E=mc2; Walton, Tombeaux; Jeffes, ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Paul Murphy (conductor), Sadler’s Wells, London, 15.10.2013 (JO’D)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Sensuality and Beauty in ENO’s Madama Butterfly
United Kingdom Puccini Madama Butterfly (sung in English): Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera/Gianluca Marciano. London Coliseum, 15.10.2013 (CC)
Girl of the Golden West: Unfortunately, Not Staged in Golden West
Australia Puccini: La Fanciulla del West, Orchestra and Chorus Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), Staatsoper Vienna, 14.10.2013 (JMI)
Photo Staatsoper Vienna
High Level Comedy in Helsinki’s New Don Pasquale
Finland Donizetti Don Pasquale. Soloists, Finnish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Marco Boemi (conductor). Finnish National Opera, Helsinki 27.9.2013. Premiere (GF)
Hanna Rantala (Norina), Jaakko Kortekangas (Malatesta)
Peter Wright’s Sleeping Beauty in great hands (and legs) with BRB
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Koen Kessels (conductor), Birmingham Hippodrome, 10.10.2013 (GR).
Leipzig Stages Wagner’s Second Opera
Germany Wagner, Das Liebesverbot: Soloists, Chorus of the Leipzig Opera (chorus master: Alessandro Zuppardo), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Matthias Foremny (conductor). Leipzig Opera House, 13.10.2013 (MB)
Vienna Staatsoper Aida Disappoints
AustriaVerdi: Aida, Wiener Staatsoper Orchestra and Chorus, Dan Ettinger (conductor), Vienna Staatsoper, 12.10.2013 (JMI).
Courtesy Wiener Staatsoper
Gilbert & Sullivan: Rend With Songs the Air Above
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, Rend With Songs the Air Above: A Celebrity recital by John Savournin, accompanied by David Eaton on the piano, Manchester Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, 13.10.2013. (RW)