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High Standards of Singing and Playing in Concert Version of Wozzeck

14/10/201504/10/2015 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Berg, Wozzeck (concert performance): Zurich Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 2.10.2015 (MB)

wozzeck_31 — Leigh Melrose (c) Belinda Lawley.

A Musically Sound and Interesting Orlando Which Doesn’t Quite Take Off

05/10/201502/10/2015 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Handel, Orlando: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor), Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 27.9.2015 (GPu)

English Touring Opera Takes to the Road with Praiseworthy Pelléas et Mélisande

14/10/201502/10/2015 by Stan

United Kingdom Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande (arr. Annelies van Parys): Soloists, Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Jonathan Berman (conductor). Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London, 1.10.2015 (MB)

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Lusty, Powerful Salome

14/08/202002/10/2015 by Ian Lace

United Kingdom Richard Strauss, Salome (concert version): Lise Lindstrom (soprano) and Kim Begley (tenor) and other soloists. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (Conductor), Lighthouse, Poole, England 30.9.2015. (IL)

salome---1 — Dress rehearsal Of *Salome* with Lise Lindstrom in the title role wildly sensual in the flame red dress

Jonathan Miller’s ENO Barber as Invigorating as Ever

14/10/201530/09/2015 by Stan

United Kingdom Rossini, The Barber of Seville: Soloists, Members of the English National Opera Chorus, Orchestra of English National Opera/Christopher Allen (conductor), London Coliseum, 29.9.2015 (CC)

Fine Orchestral Playing under Wigglesworth in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth

14/10/201528/09/2015 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), London Coliseum, London. 26.9.2015 (JPr)

ENO’s *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk* John Daszak and Patricia Racette
(c) Clive Barda

A Flawed but Interesting Production of I Puritani from WNO

27/09/201524/09/2015 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Bellini, I Puritani: (Production Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 11.09.2015 (GPu)

Puritani-wno-xlarge — Rosa Feola (Elvira) and Barry Banks (Arturo) In Bellini’s *I Puritani*
(c) Bill Cooper

At Covent Garden a Competent Figaro Lacks Tension and Sparkle

27/09/201518/09/2015 by Stan

United Kingdom Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Members of the Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/Ivor Bolton (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 15.9.2015 (CC)

The Royal Opera Le Nozze Di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ?Conductor Ivor Bolton Director David McVicar — Anita Hartig as Susanna, Kate Lindsey as Cherubino and Ellie Dehn as Countess Almaviva – *Le nozze di Figaro*
Photo by Mark Douet

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