United Kingdom Handel, Rinaldo: Longborough Festival Opera / Jeremy Silver (conductor), Longborough, 24.7.2014 (RJ)
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Crusades to Circus: Handel’s Rinaldo in a Surprising Setting
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Opera Stars of Tomorrow Make Strong Impression
United Kingdom Donizetti, Mozart, Opening Acts – Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 20.7.2014 (MMB)
Rare Rossini Gets a Good Outing at Buxton.
United Kingdom Gioachimo Rossini, Otello (concert performance sung in Italian with English surtitles): Soloists, Northern Chamber Orchestra. Buxton Festival Chorus / Stephen Barlow (conductor), Opera House, Buxton, 17.7.2014. (RJF)
Dvorák’s Rarely Heard Jacobin is Ideal Festival Fare for Buxton
United Kingdom Antonin Dvorák, The Jacobin. (sung in English, with surtitles): Soloists, Northern Chamber Orchestra, / Stephen Barlow (conductor), Opera House, Buxton, 12.7.2014 (RJF)
Tosca Overlooking the Atlantic not the Tiber
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Singers, Chorus and Orchestra of Surrey Opera / Jonathan Butcher (conductor), Minack Theatre, on the cliffs at Porthcurno, Cornwall, 14.7.2014. (RB).
A Japanese Sun Shines on Stockport
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado: The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, The Plaza Theatre, Stockport 11.7.2014 (RJW)
Time to Pension Off Covent Garden’s Current La bohème?
United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Extra Chorus, Members of Tiffin Children’s Chorus, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: Renato Balsadonna), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Cornelius Meister (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 9.7.2014 (MB)
A Piratical Performance at Stockport’s Plaza Theatre
United Kingdom Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance: Gilbert & Sullivan Touring Company, The Plaza Theatre, Stockport, 9.7.2014. (RJW)
