United Kingdom Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo Pagliacci : Opera Holland Park / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Holland Park, London, 22.06.13 (RB)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Award Winning Dance Productions at Sadlers Wells
United Kingdom Satie, Debussy/Sawhney, Turnage, Made at Sadler’s Wells, Afterlight (Part One), Faun, Undance: Sadler’s Wells, London, 22.6.2013. (JO’D)
Adamo’s “Gospel”: Half a Fine New Opera Better Than None
United States Mark Adamo, The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (World Premiere): Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 19.6.2013 (HS)
The Bittersweet “Little Mortal Jumps” Shares the Stage with the Ornate “Scheherazade” and “Azimuth”
United States Alonzo King, Scheherazade, Azimuth: Alonzo King Lines Ballet; Alejandro Cerrudo, Little Mortal Jumps: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 21.6.2013-23.6.2013 (JRo)
An Opportunity to Reassess Britten’s Coronation Opera
United Kingdom Britten, Gloriana: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Paul Daniel (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 20.6.2013 (MB)
Symbolic and Shadowless – Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Argentina Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten: Soloists,Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Colón. Conductor:Ira Levin, Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 14.6.2013. (JSJ)
Fine Production of Death in Venice by Gardner and ENO
United Kingdom Britten, Death in Venice: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Edward Gardner (conductor). Coliseum, London, 14.6.2013 (MB)
Der Rosenkavalier Not Up to Expectations
Germany Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier, Staatskapelle and Staatsoper Dresden, Christian Thielemann (conductor), Semperoper Dresden, 16.6.2013 (JMI)