Verdi, Aida: Maestranza Orchestra and Chorus, Pedro Halffter (conductor), Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville, 6.11.2013 (JMI)
Aida Again and Pleasurable Again
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Three Cheers for a Button Bursting Falstaff at the Los Angeles Opera
United States Verdi, Falstaff: LA Opera, James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 9.11.13-1.12.13 (JRo)
Barbican Celebrates Britten in Music and Dance
United Kingdom Britten, Barbican Britten: Phaedra: Richard Alston Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia / Pekka Kuusisto (director), Barbican, London, 9.11.2013 (J’OD)
Purcell’s The Indian Queen: A Pastiche by Peter Sellars
Spain H. Purcell: The Indian Queen, Orchestra and Chorus Opera Perm (MusicAeterna), Teodor Currentzis (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real, 5.11.2013 (JMI)
Photo: Javier del Real
Petra Lang Distinguishes Herself as Brünnhilde in Geneva
Switzerland Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande /Ingo Metzmacher (conductor), Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva, 7.11.2013. (JPr)
Oke Gives Magnificent Performance in Britten’s Final Opera
United Kingdom Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice (1973): Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North / Richard Farnes (conductor), The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, Salford, 7.11.2013
Opera North Swings into the Sixties with Britten’s Dream
United Kingdom Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1960): Sung in English with subtitles. Soloists, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North/ Stuart Stratford (conductor), The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, Salford, 6.11.2013.
Sung in English with subtitles.
Opera North’s Peter Grimes Continues to Impress
United Kingdom Britten: Peter Grimes (1945): Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North / Jac van Steen (conductor), The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, Salford, 5.11.2013 (RJF)