Important Donizetti Premiere: Splendidly Performed L’Ange de Nisida
20/07/2018
Donizetti: Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 17.7.2018. (CC)
L’Ange de Nisida with David Junghoon Kim as Leone di Casaldi
(c) ROH, Opera Rara & Russell Duncan
A Sparkling Ariadne auf Naxos at Opera Holland Park
19/07/2018
Richard Strauss: Soloists, City of London Sinfonia / Brad Cohen (conductor). Opera Holland Park, Kensington, London, 17.7.2018. (CC)
Jennifer France’s Zerbinetta (c) Robert Workman
Glyndebourne’s Proms Pelléas Baffles Watching Audience, Enchants Listeners at Home
18/07/2018
Prom 5 – Debussy: Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 17.7.2018. (JPr)
Christina Gansch (Mélisande), Christopher Purves (Golaud) & John Chest (Pelléas)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
The Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists 2018 Summer Performance Proves a Celebratory Showcase
16/07/2018
2018 Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Music and Opera Excerpts from Offenbach, Rossini, Stravinsky, Richard Strauss and Ambroise Thomas: Noa Naamat (director), Nick Havell (lighting designer), Jo Meredith (movement director) Jette Parker Young Artists, Orchestra of Opera North / Nick Fletcher, James Hendry, Matthew Scott Rogers, Sonia Ben-Santamaria & Jac van Steen (conductors). The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 15.7.2018. (JPr)
Jette Parker Young Artists in L’italiana in Algeri Act I finale (c) Clive Barda
Opera Holland Park Gives a Fine UK Premiere of Mascagni’s Isabeau
15/07/2018
Mascagni, Isabeau (UK premiere): Soloists. Chorus of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia / Francesco Cilluffo (conductor). Opera Holland Park, Kensington, London, 14.7.2018. (CC)
Anne Sophie Duprels (Isabeau) in OHP’s Isabeau © Ali Wright
Alan Privett’s Production of Ariadne is Another Huge Longborough Success
15/07/2018
Longborough Festival Opera 2018 [2] – Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Anthony Negus (conductor), Longborough, 13.7.2018. (CP)
LFO’s Ariadne auf Naxos (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis
Buxton’s Singers Take Up the Challenge of the Considerable Demands of Idomeneo
13/07/2018
2018 Buxton International Festival [2] – Mozart, Idomeneo: Soloists, Buxton Festival Chorus, Northern Chamber Orchestra / Nicholas Kok (conductor). Opera House, Buxton, 8.7.2018. (RJF)
Madeleine Pierard (Elettra) in <i.Idomeneo (c) Richard Hubert Smith
Buxton’s Brave Effort to Stage British Premiere of Verdi’s 1846 Alzira
13/07/2018
2018 Buxton International Festival – Verdi’s Alzira: Soloists, Buxton Festival Chorus, Northern Chamber Orchestra / Stephen Barlow (conductor). Opera House, Buxton, 7.7.2018. (RJF)
Buxton International Festival’s Alzira (c) Richard Hubert Smith
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