Charm and Wit Sparks These Pirates of Penzance at Wilton’s Music Hall
01/03/2019
Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance: Sasha Regan’s All-Male Hit at Wilton’s Music Hall, London. 27.2.2019. (JB)
Sasha Regan’s All-Male The Pirates of Penzance (c) Scott Rylander
WNO’s Limited The Magic Flute Production Gets Redeemed by Some Excellent Singing
18/02/2019
Mozart, The Magic Flute: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Damian Iorio (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 15.2.2019. (GPu)
Tamino (Ben Johnson) (c) Bill Cooper
Much to Admire, Musically and Visually, in David Pountney’s WNO Un ballo in maschera Premiere
14/02/2019
Verdi, Un ballo in maschera: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 9.2.2019. (GPu)
(l to r) Gwyn Hughes Jones (Riccardo), Roland Wood (Renato),
& Mary Elizabeth Williams (Amelia) (c) Bill Cooper
A Superb Cast, Led by Amanda Majeski, for the Royal Opera’s Katya Kabanova
11/02/2019
Janáček – Katya Kabanova: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 9.2.2019. (MB)
Susan Bickley (Kabanicha) & Amanda Majeski (Katya) (c) ROH/Clive Barda
Opera Warwick’s Entertaining La vie Parisienne Was Full of Ingenious Ideas
10/02/2019
Offenbach, La vie Parisienne: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Warwick / Laurie Duncan (conductor). Warwick Arts Centre Theatre, Coventry, 7.1.2019. (RD)
Gabrielle (Naomi Awre) in Opera Warwick’s La vie Parisienne
(c) Gabrielė Stravinskaitė
Jaho, Castronovo and Domingo Breathe New Life into a 25th Anniversary Royal Opera Traviata
31/01/2019
Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and broadcast live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 30.1.2019. (JPr)
Plácido Domingo (Georgio Germont) & Ermonela Jaho (Violetta Valéry)
(c) Catherine Ashmore
Jurowski Speeds the Radiant London Philharmonic and an Uneven Cast Through Die Walküre
28/01/2019
Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 27.1.2019. (JPr)
Dress rehearsal photo of Ruxandra Donose (Sieglinde) & Stuart Skelton (Siegmund)
(c) Simon Jay Price
World Premiere of MacRae and Welsh’s Anthropocene – Scottish Opera’s Chilling Fantasy
27/01/2019
Stuart MacRae, Anthropocene (opera in three acts with libretto by Louise Welsh): Soloists, The Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Theatre Royal Glasgow, 24.1.2019. (GT)
Stephen Gadd, Jeni Bern & Marc Le Brocq (c) James Glossop
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