Austria Verdi: Don Carlo, Chorus and Orchestra of the Staatsoper Vienna, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor), Vienna State Opera, 16.10.2013 (JMI)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Fine Singing in Lighthearted Lortzing Opera: Der Wildschütz
Austria Lortzing: Der Wildschütz: Chorus and Orchestra of the Volksoper Vienna, Alfred Eschwé (conductor), Volksoper Vienna, 15.10.2013 (JMI)
Carlos Acosta’s Quest For The Don Quixote Of His Dreams
United Kingdom Minkus (arr. Martin Yates), Don Quixote: Soloists, Corps de ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor). Broadcast to the Odeon Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex. 16.10.2013. (JPr)
Uncertainty and Delays Affect Performance by Birmingham Royal Ballet
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)
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).