Argentina Verdi, La Traviata: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus of Teatro Argentino. Conductor: Carlos Vieu, Teatro Argentino, La Plata. 19.9.2014. (JSJ)
Traditional Traviata In La Plata
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Nozze Times 2: Second One Excels
Spain Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Ivor Bolton (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 17 & 18.9.2014 (JMI)
Style and Panache from Bernini and Keenlyside in Rigoletto
United Kingdom Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Maurizio Benini (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 12.9.2014 (CC)
Stellar Debuts in Covent Garden’s Il barbiere
United Kingdom Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Cast; Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Sir Mark Elder (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 29.09.2014 (CC)
Cast
Patel’s Indian Dance Evening Becomes ‘Lived’ Experience
United Kingdom, Tanjore Quartet, Bhagavatula Sitarama Sarma, Wild Card: Seeta Patel – Something Then, Something Now, Sadler’s Wells, Sadler’s Wells (Lilian Baylis Studio), London, 26.9.2014 (J.O’D)
Barcelona’s Barbiere in Need of Better Staging
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Liceu Orchestra and Chorus, Giuseppe Finzi (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 16 & 22.9.2014 (JMI) Casts: Figaro: Mario Cassi/Lionel Lhote Rosina: Annalisa Stroppa/Ketevan Kemoklidze Almaviva: Juan Francisco Gatell/Bogdan Mihai Don Bartolo: Carlos Chausson/José Fardilha Don Basilio: John Relyea/Dmitry Ulyanov Berta: Marisa Martins Fiorello/Officer: Manel Esteve Production: Liceu … Read more
Gorgeously Sung ‘Norma’ in Listless Production
United States Bellini, Norma: Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, Nicola Luisotti (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 23.9.2014 (HS)
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma) and Jamie Barton (Adalgisa). ©Cory Weaver/ San Francisco Opera.
Tchaikovsky’s Vintage Charodeyka Ravishes
Tchaikovsky, Charodeyka: Soloists, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien and Arnold Schoenberg Chor conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov. Theater an der Wien, Vienna. 23.9.2014 (SS)
