United States Verdi, Macbeth: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Fabio Luisi (conductor). Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 11.9.2014. (JPr)
Stirring performances in Met’s Macbeth
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Birmingham Royal Ballet Shine Through Their Shadows of War
United Kingdom Ravel, Bliss, Arnold, Britten: Shadows of War – La Fin du jour, Flowers of the Forest and Miracle in the Gorbals: Birmingham Royal Ballet, Royal Ballet Sinfonia Paul Murphy (conductor), Birmingham Hippodrome, 8.10.2014 (GR).
1920s Giovanni For a Subdued Opening Night
United States Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis, (conductor), Civic Opera House, Chicago. 27.9.2014 (JLZ)
Don Giovanni
© Todd Rosenberg Photography 2014
A Sparse Production of Yevgény Onégin Opens Vienna’s Kammeroper Season
Austria Tchaikovsky: Yevgény Onégin. Soloists, Peter Valentovic (conductor), Wiener KammerOrchester. Kammeroper, Vienna. 4.10.2014 (SS)
Dancer Wendy Houston Mixes Serious with Absurd
United Kingdom Pact with Pointlessness: Wendy Houstoun, The Place, London, 7.10.2014 (J.O’D)
Robert Falls’ Carnal, Noirish Don Giovanni
United States Mozart, Don Giovanni: Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Michael Black (chorus master), Civic Opera House, Chicago, Illinois. 27.9.2014 (DP)
Superb William Tell from WNO and Empathetic Carlo Rizzi
United Kingdom Rossini, William Tell: (Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 19.09.2014 (GPu)
AAM’s Enjoyable Poppea Lacks Sense of Performance
United Kingdom Monteverdi, L’Incoronazione di Poppea (1643): Soloists, Academy of Ancient Music/Robert Howarth (director/harpsichord). Barbican Hall, London, 4.10.2014 (CC)