United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra / Emmanuel Villaume (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 9.1.2016. (JPr)
Viva La Diva! Angela Gheorghiu Returns as Tosca at Covent Garden
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A Bravura Performance by Mark Le Brocq in Bell’s A Christmas Carol
United Kingdom Iain Bell, A Christmas Carol: Mark Le Brocq (narrator), Chamber Orchestra of Welsh National Opera /James Southall (conductor), Weston Studio, Millennium Centre, Cardiff. 20.12.2015. (GPu)
Confusing Eugene Onegin with Responsive Orchestra under Bychkov at Covent Garden
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus (chorus master: Renata Balsadonna), Dancers, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 19.12.2015. (MB)
and Nicole Car (Tatyana) (c) Bill Cooper
Drug Pushing and People Trafficking in Fulham Opera’s Flying Dutchman
United Kingdom Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (with a new reduced orchestration by Jonathan Finney): Soloists, chorus and musicians of Fulham Opera / Jonathan Finney (conductor). St John’s Church, Fulham, London, 5.12.2015. (JPr)
Keel Watson (Dutchman), John Milne (Daland) & Janet Fischer (Senta)
(c) Matthew Coughlan
Michieletto Returns to Covent Garden with an Interesting and Clever Cav & Pag
United Kingdom Mascagni & Leoncavallo, Cav & Pag: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 3.12.2015. (CC)
Miller’s Mikado Continues to Pull In the Crowds for ENO
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado: Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera / Fergus Macleod (conductor). London Coliseum, 21.11.2015. (CC)
(c) Tristram Kenton
Jubilee Opera Marks Bicentenary of Battle of Waterloo
United Kingdom Nicol and Stoll, The Drummer Boy of Waterloo: Jubilee Opera, Jubilee Opera Orchestra / Lee Reynolds (conductor), Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, 7.11.2015 (MH)
© David Hermon
Steamy Latin Passion from Moldovan Mezzo in Ellen Kent’s Carmen
Bizet, Carmen: Soloists of Chisinau National Opera, Members of the Orchestra of the National Opera & Ballet Theatre of Moldova ‘Maria Biesu’ and National Philharmonic of Moldova ‘Serghei Lunchevici’, Vasyl Vasylenko (conductor), Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 18.11.2015. (MC)
