UK Opera – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

Virtuosity from DiDonato but Kosky’s Agrippina is puzzling and contradictory

10/10/201925/09/2019 by Agnes Kory

United Kingdom Handel, Agrippina: Soloists, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 23.9. 2019. (AK)

Joyce DiDonato (Agrippina) and Nerone (Franco Fagioli) (c) Bill Cooper

An interesting WNO Carmen in which the women outshine the men

10/10/201924/09/2019 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Welsh National Opera / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2019. (GPu)

Virginie Verrez (Carmen) and Dimitri Pattas (Don José)
(c) Bill Cooper

Mascagni and Wolf-Ferrari double bill is a great success at the Lammermuir Festival

29/09/201922/09/2019 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Lammermuir Festival [2] – Mascagni, Zanetto & Wolf-Ferrari, Susanna’s Secret: Soloists, Orchestra of Scottish Opera / David Parry (conductor). St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington, 21.9.2019. (SRT)

Richard Burkhard (Count Gil) and Clare Presland (Countess Susanna)
in *Susanna’s Secret* (c) Sally Jubb Photography

Thanks to Juan Diego Flórez and Edward Gardner Covent Garden’s rare Werther revival should not be missed

03/10/202020/09/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Massenet, Werther: Soloists, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Edward Gardner (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 17.9.2019. (JPr)

Juan Diego Flórez (Werther) and Isabel Leonard (Charlotte) (c) Catherine Ashmore

A rather tired Don Giovanni opens the Royal Opera’s new season

29/09/201917/09/2019 by CClarke

United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Hartmut Haenchen (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 16.9.2019. (CC)

Brindley Sherratt (Commendatore) in *Don Giovanni*
(c) Mark Douet

Elaine McKrill and Jonathan Stoughton impress in Saffron Opera Group’s exciting and engrossing Tristan und Isolde

29/09/201916/09/2019 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (concert performance): Saffron Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 15.9.2019. (JPr)

(l-r) Elaine McKrill (Isolde), Michael Thorne (conductor) & Jonathan Stoughton (Tristan)
with the Saffron Opera Group Orchestra (c) Roger King

Radius Opera premieres Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus in Burnley

29/09/201916/09/2019 by Rob Barnett

United Kingdom Tim Benjamin’s The Fire of Olympus (or, On Sticking It To The Man): Soloists and Orchestra (harpsichord: Alex Robinson) of Radius Opera / Ellie Slorach (conductor). Burnley Mechanics, Manchester Road, Burnley, 14.9.2019 (RBa)

Bampton Classical Opera’s rollicking Storace revival

13/09/201902/09/2019 by AUTHOR

United Kingdom Stephen Storace, Gli Sposi Malcontenti: Soloists and Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Anthony Kraus (conductor). Westonbirt School, Westonbirt, 29.8.2019. (CP)

Aoife O’Sullivan (Enrichetta), Adam Tunnicliffe (Valente) and Caroline Kennedy (Bettina)
in Bampton Classical Opera’s *Bride and Gloom*

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