Opera & Ballet – Page 66 – Seen and Heard International

Thoughtful and skilful presentation in Frankfurt of a rare opera by the teenage Mozart

19/12/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Mozart, Ascanio in Alba: Soloists, Vocal Ensemble (recorded), Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Alden Gatt (conductor). Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, 17.12.2023. (MB)

Mozart’s *Ascanio in Alba* © Monika Rittershaus

Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel score is the greatest magic of all in a fine Covent Garden revival

19/12/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 16.12.2023. (CC)

A scene from Antony McDonald’s *Hansel and Gretel* © Tristram Kenton

Delightful and convincing RNCM opera production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden

18/12/2023 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, The Snow Maiden: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Royal Northern College of Music / Matthew Kofi Waldren (conductor). RNCM, Manchester, 13.12.2023. (MC)

A scene from RNCM’s *The Snow Maiden* © Craig Fuller

Berlin’s Komische Oper revives Barrie Kosky’s production of Eugene Onegin,

17/12/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Komische Oper / James Gaffigan (conductor). Schillertheater, Berlin, 15.12.2023. (MB)

Barrie Kosky’s Komische Oper *Eugene Onegin* © Iko Freese/drama-berlin.de

ENB’s Nutcracker has changed with the times but is no less magical

16/12/2023 by John O'Dwyer

United Kingdom English National Ballet’s Nutcracker: Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Daniel Richardson (guest conductor). London Coliseum, 14.12.2023. (JO’D)

Sangeun Lee (Sugar Plum Fairy) and Gareth Haw (Sugar Plum Prince) © Laurent Liotardo

A very well sung new Turandot in Naples is not the car crash it might appear to be

18/12/202313/12/2023 by Jim Pritchard

Italy Puccini, Turandot: Children’s Chorus (director: Stefania Rinaldi), Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo / Dan Ettinger (conductor). Livestreamed on medici.tv from Teatro di San Carlo, Naples. 9.12.2023. (JPr)

Vasily Barkhatov’s *Turandot* at Naples’s Teatro di San Carlo

A fine revival of the Met’s ‘old-fashioned’ Tannhäuser reclaims Wagner’s undervalued early opera

12/12/2023 by Thomas May

United States Wagner, Tannhäuser: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Sir Donald Runnicles (conductor). Metropolitan Opera, New York, 6.12.2023. (TM)

Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus) and Andreas Schager (Tannhäuser) © Evan Zimmerman/Met Opera

The Metropolitan Opera’s Florencia en el Amazonas fails to float my boat

12/12/202311/12/2023 by Jim Pritchard

United States Daniel Catán, Florencia en el Amazonas: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Transmitted live (directed by Gary Halvorson) and seen at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 9.12.2023. (JPr)

Ailyn Pérez (Florencia Grimaldi) with waterlilies © Ken Howard/Met Opera

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