W. A. Mozart: Don Giovanni, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Alejo Pérez (conductor), Madrid Teatro Real, 12.4.2013 (JMI)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Turning Parsifal’s Moral World Upside Down
Belgium Wagner, Parsifal: soloists, Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, and Children’s Chorus of the Flemish Opera, Eliahu Inbal (conductor), Opera House, Antwerp, 3.4.2013 (BJ)
Imaginative Reworking of Two Stravinsky Ballets
United Kingdom Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring & Petrushka: Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre in collaboration with Sadlers Wells, Lidija Bizjak and Sanja Bizjak (piano), Sadler’s Wells, London, 12.4.2013 . (JOD)
You Don’t (Des) Say
United States Handel, Giulio Cesare: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Harry Bicket (conductor). Lincoln Center, New York, 9.4.2013. (SSM)
Conviction by a Sleight of Hand: Samson et Dalila
Italy Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila: Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera, Rome. Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Rome, 9.4.2013. (JB)
Parsifal and the Tree of Life
Germany R. Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Bavarian State Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor), Bavarian State Orchestra, 31.3.2012 (JFL)
Exuberance In Paris In Buenos Aires
Argentina Offenbach, La vie parisienne: Compañia Lirica “G.Verdi”. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Compañia Lirica “G.Verdi”, Conductor:Ramiro Soto Monllor. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 6.4.2013. (JSJ)
Birthday Chunks of Wagner (Gatti, Boston Symphony Orchestra, DeYoung)
United States Wagner: Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Daniele Gatti (conductor), Carnegie Hall, New York 5.4. 2013 (DA)