United Kingdom Holst, Vaughan Williams & Ravel, Savitri, Riders to the Sea & L’Enfant et les sortilèges: Students of Birmingham Conservatoire / Fraser Goulding (conductor), Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, 10.3.2016. (GR)
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Remarkable Staging of Glass’s Remarkable Akhnaten by ENO
United Kingdom Glass, Akhnaten: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera/Karen Kamensek (conductor), London Coliseum, 8.3.2016. (CC)
Royal Academy Opera Shines in a Rimsky-Korsakov Rarity
United Kingdom Rimsky-Korsakov, May Night: Soloists, Royal Academy Opera Chorus (chorus master: Richard Leach), Royal Academy Sinfonia, Gareth Hancock (conductor), Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, 7.3.2016 (MB)
A Full House for English Touring Opera’s Excellent Iphigénie en Tauride
United Kingdom Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of English Touring Opera, Martin André (conductor), Hackney Empire, London, 5.3.2016 (MB)
WNO’s Figaro Forever: a Fine Idea Realized Very Rewardingly in Large Part
United Kingdom Rossini, The Barber of Seville; Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro; Langer, Figaro Gets a Divorce: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera/ James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 23, 24 & 27.2.2016. (GPu)
(c) Richard Hubert Smith
Orlando: The English Concert Triumph Again in Handel
United Kingdom Handel, Orlando HWV31: (semi-staged performance) Soloists; English Concert/Harry Bickett (director). Barbican Hall, London 1.3.2016 (CC)
David McVicar’s Production of Aida Returns to Valencia
Spain Verdi, Aida: Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana / Ramón Tebar (conductor), Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 2.3.2016. (JMI)
An Outstanding Rape of Lucretia at the Guildhall
United Kingdom Britten, The Rape of Lucretia: Soloists, Orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dominic Wheeler (conductor). Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, 24.2.2016. (MB)