Thanks to Juan Diego Flórez and Edward Gardner Covent Garden’s rare Werther revival should not be missed
20/09/2019
Massenet, Werther: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 17.9.2019. (JPr)
Juan Diego Flórez (Werther) and Isabel Leonard (Charlotte) (c) Catherine Ashmore
A rather tired Don Giovanni opens the Royal Opera’s new season
17/09/2019
Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Hartmut Haenchen (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 16.9.2019. (CC)
Brindley Sherratt (Commendatore) in Don Giovanni
(c) Mark Douet
Elaine McKrill and Jonathan Stoughton impress in Saffron Opera Group’s exciting and engrossing Tristan und Isolde
16/09/2019
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (concert performance): Saffron Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 15.9.2019. (JPr)
(l-r) Elaine McKrill (Isolde), Michael Thorne (conductor) & Jonathan Stoughton (Tristan)
with the Saffron Opera Group Orchestra (c) Roger King
Radius Opera premieres Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus in Burnley
16/09/2019
Tim Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus (or, On Sticking It To The Man): Soloists and Orchestra (harpsichord: Alex Robinson) of Radius Opera / Ellie Slorach (conductor). Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, 14.9.2019 (RBa)
Bampton Classical Opera’s rollicking Storace revival
02/09/2019
Stephen Storace, Gli Sposi Malcontenti: Soloists and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Anthony Kraus (conductor). Westonbirt School, Westonbirt, 29.8.2019. (CP)
Aoife O’Sullivan (Enrichetta), Adam Tunnicliffe (Valente) and Caroline Kennedy (Bettina)
in Bampton Classical Opera’s Bride and Gloom
Opera della Luna’s Delightful Pinafore Lunacy at Wilton’s
30/08/2019
Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore: Soloists, chorus and musicians of Opera della Luna / Michael Waldron (piano/musical director). Wilton’s Music Hall, London, 28.8.2019. (JB)
Georgina Stalbow (Josephine) in Opera della Luna’s HMS Pinafore
Andrew Davis’s Götterdämmerung Ends the 2019 Edinburgh Festival in a Blaze of Glory
26/08/2019
Edinburgh International Festival [14] – Wagner, Götterdämmerung (in concert): Soloists, RCS (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Voices (director: Timothy Dean), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 25.8.2019. (SRT)
Christine Goerke (Brunnhilde), Josef Wagner (Gunther), RSNO & Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
(c) Ryan Buchanan
In Edinburgh Breaking the Waves Restores Faith in Opera as an Art Form
21/08/2019
Edinburgh International Festival [12] – Missy Mazzoli, Breaking the Waves: Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 21.8.2019. (SRT)
Sydney Mancasola (Bess) and Duncan Rock (Jan) (c) James Glossop
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