United Kingdom Haydn: Soloists of New Chamber Opera and The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor/harpsichord), New College, Oxford, 4.7.2018. (CR)
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NCO’s Rare Haydn Opera is an Enchanting Oxford Evening
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Pelléas is Stefan Herheim’s Directorial Debut at Glyndebourne
United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018 [2] – Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande: Soloists, Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Sussex, 30.7.2018. (CC)
Scottish Opera’s First-Rate Production of Tchaikovsky’s Great Eugene Onegin
United Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Scottish National Opera / Stuart Stratford (Conductor), Grand Opera House, Belfast, 28.6.2018. (RB)
Holten’s Don Giovanni Stimulates and, Occasionally, Transfixes at Covent Garden
United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Marc Minkowski (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 29.6.2018. (CC)
Tremendous Stuff: RCM’s In the Locked Room and The Lighthouse
United Kingdom Watkins, In the Locked Room, and Davies, The Lighthouse: Soloists, Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra / Michael Rosewell (conductor). Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London, 27.6.2018. (MB)
The OAE Brings the Music and Dance of Louis XIV’s Versailles to the Southbank
United Kingdom André Campra, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau and others: Anna Dennis (soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Les Corps Éloquents (Hubert Hazebroucq [dancer/choreographer] and dancers: Irène Feste and Romain Arreghini), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / John Butt (harpsichord/conductor), Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 26.6.2018. (JPr)
The Sixteen Deliver Life-Enhancing Performance of Acis & Galatea
United Kingdom Handel: The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (conductor). Wigmore Hall, 23.6.2018. (CC)
Annilese Miskimmon’s Dark and Thought-Provoking Glyndebourne Madama Butterfly
United Kingdom 2018 Glyndebourne Festival Opera – Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, The Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Omer Meir Wellber (conductor). Directed for the screen by François Roussillon and broadcast to Cineworld Basildon, 21.6.2018. (JPr)
