United Kingdom George Lloyd, Iernin (a Celtic Opera in Three Acts to a libretto by William A.C. Lloyd): Surrey Opera / Jonathan Butcher (conductor), Alexander Hargreaves (director), Trinity School Concert Hall/Theatre, Croydon, 24.10.2013 (RB)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
Love and Treachery with Plenty of Laughs in Cavalli’s Jason
United Kingdom Cavalli, Jason: English Touring Opera and the Old Street Band / Joseph McHardy (conductor), Festival Theatre, Malvern, 26.10.2013. (RJ)
- Catrine Kirkman (Isiphile), Clint van der Linde (Jason), Michal Czerniawski (Delfa), Hannah Pedley (Medea), John-Colyn Gyeantey (Egeus), Peter Aisher (Demus), Piotr Lempa (Orestes), Andrew Slater (Hercules), English Touring Opera // Cavalli, Jason (Giasone). Photo: Richard Hubert Smith
Fun and Intrigue in ETO’s Agrippina
United Kingdom Handel: Agrippina: English Touring Opera, Old Street Band / Jonathan Peter Kenny (conductor), Festival Theatre, Malvern, 24.10.2013. (RJ)
Big Aida in Small Theater
Italy Verdi: Falstaff, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Parma, Sebastiano Rolli (conductor), Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Busseto, 24.10.2013 (JMI)
Rare Opera Offered During Parma’s Verdi Month
Italy Verdi: I Masnadieri, Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Coro Teatro Regio, Francesco Ivan Ciampa (conductor), Teatro Regio di Parma, 23.10.2013 (JMI)
Office Workers Get Violent in Blam!
United Kingdom Kristján Ingimarsson//Neander, Blam!: Sadler’s Wells (Peacock Theatre), London, 24.10.2013 (JO’D)
Iain Bell’s A Harlot’s Progress, An Opera to be Reckoned With
Austria Iain Bell: A Harlot’s Progress, Wiener Symphoniker, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Mikko Franck (conductor), Theater an der Wien, Vienna, 13.10.2013 (JMI).
Aida Opens Pittsburgh Opera’s 75th season
United States Verdi: Aida, Pittsburgh Opera, Antony Walker (conductor), Benedum Center, 15.10.13 (RP)