Italy Britten, Peter Grimes in concert form. Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Chorus Master, Ciro Visco. Conductor, Sir Antonio Pappano. Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica Rome. 26.10.2013 (JB)
Opera & Ballet
Collected opera and ballet reviews
A Classy and Successful Revival of George Lloyd’s First Opera.
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)
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).
