UK Opera – Page 8 – Seen and Heard International

As an OHP entertainment, Dove’s Itch passes an evening nicely but will not linger in the memory

27/08/202324/07/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Opera Holland Park 2023 [3] – Dove, Itch (world premiere): Soloists, Members of the City of London Sinfonia / Jennifer Cottis (conductor). Opera Holland Park, London, 22.7.2023. (CC)

Opera Holland Park’s *Itch* © Jake Wiltshire

Bampton Classical Opera celebrates 30 years with a gorgeous UK premiere of Salieri’s At the Venice Fair

27/08/202323/07/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Bampton Classical Opera – Salieri, At the Venice Fair (La fiera di Venezia): Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). Bampton, Oxfordshire, 21.7.2022. (CP)

Bampton Classical Opera’s *At the Venice Fair* © Anthony Hall/BCO

Longborough’s successful season continues with a dissonant interpretation of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo

27/08/202321/07/2023 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2023 [3] – Monteverdi, L’Orfeo: Soloists, La Serenissima / Robert Howarth (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 18.7.2023. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *L’Orfeo* © Matthew Williams-Ellis

A fine cast perform Le nozze di Figaro to a discourteous audience at Covent Garden

09/07/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Joana Mallwitz (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 8.7.2023. (MB)

Sir David McVicar’s production of *The Marriage of Figaro* © Clive Barda

Bertrand de Billy’s conducting and Lisa Davidsen’s Elizabeth impress in Covent Garden’s Don Carlo revival

04/07/2023 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Verdi, Don Carlo (Modena version, 1886): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Bertrand de Billy (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 30.6.2023. (CC)

John Relyea (Philip II) and Luca Micheletti (Rodrigo) © Bill Cooper

Garsington Opera’s The Bartered Bride gets a rather more muted revival

05/07/202301/07/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2023 [3] – Bedřich Smetana, The Bartered Bride: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus & Philharmonia Orchestra / Jac van Steen (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 30.6.2023. (CR)

Garsington Opera’s *The Bartered Bride* © Alice Pennefather

The cast of New Chamber Opera’s La Frascatana successfully highlight the opera’s levity and good spirits.

01/07/202301/07/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Paisiello, La Frascatana (The Girl from Frascati): Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 28.6.2023. (CR)

Paisiello at the clavichord, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1791)

Lailo Soliman’s resourceful production of Bushra El-Turk’s Woman at Point Zero

30/06/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Bushra El-Turk, Woman at Point Zero: Soloists, Ensemble Zar, Kanako Abe (conductor). Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 28.6.2023. (MB)

Carla Nahadi Babelegoto (Sama) and Dima Orsho (Fatma) © Camilla Greenwell

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