United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Maurizio Benini (conductor., Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 2.3.2012 (CC)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Moral Themes and Attractive Performances in WNO’s Vixen
United Kingdom Janáĉek, The Cunning Little Vixen: (Revival premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Lothar Koenigs, conductor, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.2.2013 (GPu)
Hamburg’s New Traviata Goes To The Heart
Germany Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera, Patrick Lange (conductor). Hamburg State Opera 23.3.2013 (GF)
It Flew not, on Wings of Gold: La Scala’s Nabucco
Italy G. Verdi, Nabucco: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala, Nicola Luisotti (conductor), Teatro alla Scala, Milan 7.2.2013 (JMI)
Orchestra Overwhelms Scottish Opera’s Werther
United Kingdom Massenet, Werther: Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Francesco Corti (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 26.2.2012 (SRT)
The Heirs of Tantalus: A Pasticcio of Blood and Song
United States Handel, Monteverdi, A. Scarlatti: The Heirs of Tantalus: The Broad Street Ballroom, New York, 22.2.2013. (SSM)
An Intoxicatingly Beautiful, Richly Human Bohème
United States Puccini, La Bohème: Seattle Opera, McCaw Hall, Seattle, 23 & *24.2.2013 (BJ)
Changing Class, Complicit Society—and That Sex Scene
United States Adès, Powder Her Face: Soloists, New York City Opera Orchestra, Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor), New York City Opera, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 17.2.2013 (DA)