UK Opera – Page 110 – Seen and Heard International

Strong cast in Covent Garden’s visually compelling Il trovatore

31/05/202504/07/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists, chorus and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Gianandrea Noseda (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 2.7.2016. (JPr)

Il Trovatore by Verdi; Royal Opera House; Covent Garden; London, UK; 29 June 2016; Cast A: Lianna Haroutounian as Leonora; Francesco Meli as Manrico; Conuctor - Gianandrea Noseda; Director - David Bösch; Set and video designer - Patrick Bannwart; Costume designer - Meentje Nielsen; Lighting designer - Olaf Winter; Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA — *Il trovatore* Part II: Ekaterina Semenchuk (Azucena) and Francesco Meli (Manrico) © Clive Barda

Iain Bell’s New Opera Gives Musical Expression to David Jones’ Epic World War I Poem

07/07/201601/07/2016 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Bell, In Parenthesis: (sung in English, Welsh, Latin and medieval Welsh) Soloists; Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 29.6.2016 (CC)

Photo credit: Bill Cooper. Private John Ball; Andrew Bidlack, Bard of Brittannia_HQ Officer; Peter Coleman_Wright, Bard of Germania_Alice the Barmaid_The Queen of the Woods; Alexandra Deshorties, Lieutenant Jenkins; George Humphreys, Lance Corporal Lewis; Marcus Farnsworth, Sergeant Snell; Mark Le Brocq, Dai Greatcoat; Donald Maxwell, The Marne Sergeant ;Graham Clark, Cast & Creative Conductor; Carlo Rizzi, Director; David Pountney, Designer; Robert Innes Hopkins, Lighting Designer; Malcolm Rippeth, — Photo credit: Bill Cooper.

Superb Playing and Singing from Opera North in Die Walküre

07/07/201601/07/2016 by Robert Beattie

United Kingdom Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of Opera North, Richard Farnes (Conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 29.06.16. (RB)

Michael Weinus as Siegmund and Lee Bisset as Sieglinde; Photo credit: Clive Barda. — Michael Weinus as Siegmund and Lee Bisset as Sieglinde;
Photo credit: Clive Barda.

Opera North’s Magnificent Das Rheingold Comes to London

07/07/201630/06/2016 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Wagner Das Rheingold – semi-staged concert performance: Soloists and Orchestra of Opera North / Richard Farnes (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 28.6.2016. (CC)

DAS RHEINGOLD by Wagner;Opera North;Leeds Town Hall; Leads, UK;21 April 2016;YVONNE HOWARD as Fricka (left);GISELLE ALLEN as Freia;MATS ALMGREN as Fafner;Credit: © CLIVE BARDA/ ArenaPAL; — ON’s *Das Rheingold* Yvonne Howard (Fricka), Giselle Allen (Freia) & Mats Almgren (Fafner)
© Clive Barda/ArenaPAL

Glyndebourne Captures Earthiness of The Cunning Little Vixen

10/03/202330/06/2016 by Robert Beattie

United Kingdom Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Glyndebourne, 25.6.2016. (RB)

Glyndebourne_Vixen060616_photoRichardHubertSmith-1126_0 — *The Cunning Little Vixen* (c) Richard Hubert Smith

A Thought-Provoking Marriage of Figaro at Longborough

02/07/201629/06/2016 by RJones

United Kingdom Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Robert Houssart (conductor), Longborough, 29.6.2016. (RJ)

Grant Doyle (Figaro) and Beate Mondal (Susanna) (c) Matthew Williams-Ellis

ENO’s Jenůfa Presents Human Tragedy that is Out of the Ordinary

29/06/201627/06/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Janáček, Jenůfa: Soloists, Chorus of the English National Opera (chorus master: Stephen Harris), Orchestra of the English National Opera / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor). London Coliseum, London, 23.6.2016. (MB)

ENO Jenufa: Soraya Mafi, Natalie Herman, Laura Wilde and Peter Hoare (c) Donald Cooper.

Splendid Rossini Opera Pops Up in a Tunnel Shaft…..not a Barber’s Shop

28/06/201623/06/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia: Pop-Up Opera, Berrak Dyer (musical director, piano). Thames Tunnel Shaft, Brunel Museum, London, 21.6.2016. (MB)

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