UK Opera – Page 84 – Seen and Heard International

Anna Goryachova beguilingly stares down the camera for Royal Opera’s Carmen in cinemas

02/05/202409/03/2018 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Directed for the screen by Pati Marr and broadcast to Cineworld Basildon from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 6.3.2018. (JPr)

Period Productions with Superb Singing and Acting Like This Butterfly are Rare

16/03/201808/03/2018 by Robert Farr

United Kingdom Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Martin Pickard (conductor). The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays. 6.3.2018. (RJF)

Anne Sophie Duprels (Butterfly & Merūnas Vitulskis (Pinkerton) (c) Richard H Smith

Having Your Midsummer Night’s Dream and Eating It

16/03/201807/03/2018 by Jack Buckley

United Kingdom Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Soloists, Trinity Boys Choir, Royal College of Music Opera Orchestra / Michael Rosewell (conductor). Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music London. 5.3.2018. (JB)

Two Delightful Evenings with English Touring Opera

16/03/201806/03/2018 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Puccini – Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi, and Mozart – Le nozze di Figaro: Soloists, Orchestra of English Touring Opera / Michael Rosewell and Christopher Stark (conductors). Hackney Empire Theatre, London, 2 and 3.3 2018. (MB)

London, UK. 27.02.2018. English Touring Opera presents The Marriage of Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Hackney Empire, before touring. This production is directed by Blanche McIntryre, conducted by Christopher Stark , with design by Neil Irish and lighting design by Rory Beaton. The cast is:Ross Ramgobin (Figaro), Abigail Kelly (Susanna), Dawid Kimberg (Count Almaviva), Nadine Benjamin (Countess Almaviva), Katherine Aitkin (Cherubino), Omar Ebrahim (Bartolo), Gaynor Keeble (Marcellina), Galina Averina (Barbarina), Devon Harrison (Antonio), John-Colyn Gyeantey (Basilio), Stuart Haycock (Don Curzio). Photograph © Jane Hobson. — ETO’s *The Marriage of Figaro* (L-R Stuart Haycock,, Devon Harrison, Ross Ramgobin, Dawid Kimberg)
© Jane Hobson.

ENO’s Excellent Company Performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream

09/03/201805/03/2018 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Soloists, Trinity Boys’ Choir (choirmaster: David Swinson), Orchestra of the English National Opera / Alexander Soddy (conductor). London Coliseum, 1.3.2018. (MB)

Soraya Mafi (Tytania), Trinity Boys Choir & Joshua Bloom (Bottom) (c) Robert Workman

WNO’s Urgent and Thought-Provoking Don Giovanni

05/03/201827/02/2018 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 22.2.2018. (GPu)

Elizabeth Watts (Donna Elvira) & David Stout (Leporello) © Robert Hubert Smith

Opera North’s Revived Don Giovanni Misfires in the Age of #MeToo

05/03/201824/02/2018 by Cornelius Fitz

United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Christoph Altstaedt (conductor), Leeds Grand Theatre, 21.2.18. (CF)

Elizabeth Atherton (Donna Elvira) & John Savournin (Leporello) © Bill Cooper

UK Première of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Barbican

16/08/202021/02/2018 by Valeria Vescina

United Kingdom Jake Heggie, Dead Man Walking: Soloists, BBC Singers, Singers from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Finchley Children’s Music Group, BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 20.2.2018. (VV)

Jake Heggie’s *Dead Man Walking* featuring Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen) (c) Mark Allan/Barbican

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