Opera & Ballet – Page 496 – Seen and Heard International

LA Sonnambula : Attractive but Hardly Convincing

10/02/201405/02/2014 by Stan

Bellini: La Sonnambula, Liceu’s Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Oren (conductor), Barcelona’s Liceu, 1 & 2.2.2014 (JMI) Casts: Amina: Patrizia Ciofi/Annick Massis Elvino: Juan Diego Flórez/Celso Albelo Count Rodolfo: Nicola Ulivieri/Michele Pertusi Lisa: Eleonora Buratto/Sabina Puértolas Teresa: Gemma Coma-Alabert Alessio: Alex Sanmartí Notary: Jordi Casanova Production: Wiener Staatsoper and Royal Opera House Covent Garden Direction: … Read more

Ivan Putrov Focuses on The Role of the Male Dancer

13/05/201403/02/2014 by Stan

United Kingdom Debussy, Banschikov, Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, Gershwin, et al., Men in Motion (devised by Ivan Putrov): Orchestra and New London Chamber Choir / Richard Bernas (conductor),, London Coliseum, London, 31.1.2014 (JO’D)

Elektra: A Production Strauss Himself Would Love

03/02/201402/02/2014 by Stan

Germany Germany Strauss: Elektra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor, Christian Thielemann (conductor), Berlin Philarmonie, 28.1.2014 (2014).

Weinberger’s Schwanda: Rarely Performed Opera That Has Retained It’s Humour

03/02/201402/02/2014 by Stan

Germany Germany Weinberger: Svanda, Staatskepelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor, Constantin Trinks (conductor), Dresden Semperoper, 27.1.2014 (JMI)

Warm Reading of Janáček’s Katja Kabanova with Simon Rattle as Conductor

03/02/201402/02/2014 by Stan

Janáček: Katja Kabanova, Staatskapelle Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Berlin Schiller Theater, 25.1.2014. (JMI)

Staatsoper Berlin Katja Kabanova Staatsoper (C) BERND UHLIG — Staatsoper Berlin
Katja Kabanova
(C) BERND UHLIG

Unravelling Ravel

03/02/201402/02/2014 by Stan

Italy Italy Ravel, L’heure espagnole and L’ enfant et les sortilèges. Chorus and orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera Rome. Conductor, Charles Dutoit. Staging and Costumes by Laurent Pelly in his Glyndebourne production. Rehearsed in Rome by Paul Higgins. Sets of L’heure espagnole by Caroline Ginet; sets of L’enfant et les sortilèges by Barbara de Limburg. Original Glyndebourne lighting by Joël Adam, reset in Rome by Andrew May. Teatro dell’Opera, Rome 01.02.2014 (JB)

L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES Musica di Maurice Ravel ®-Laura-Ferrari-Teatro-dellOpera-di-Roma — L’ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES
Musica di Maurice Ravel
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High Musical Values in Scottish Opera’s Don Pasquale

03/02/201402/02/2014 by Stan

United Kingdom Donizetti: Don Pasquale: Scottish Opera Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera, Chorus of Don Pasquale / Francesco Corti (conductor), Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 01.02.2014 (SRT)

Scottish Opera - Don Pasquale — Don Pasquale pics. Credit KK Dundas

Geneva Presents a Traditional Siegfried Free of Modern Gimmicks

21/02/201402/02/2014 by Stan

United Kingdom Wagner, Siegfried: Soloists, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ingo Metzmacher (conductor), Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 30.1.2014. (JPr)

Siegfried Act III John Daszak and Petra Lang c GTG & CaroleParodi

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