UK Opera – Page 99 – Seen and Heard International

Scottish Opera are on their Finest Form for David McVicar’s Pelléas et Melisande

18/03/201712/03/2017 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Debussy, Pelléas et Melisande: Soloists and Chorus of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 11.3.2017. (SRT)

Carolyn Sampson as Mélisande in Pelléas and Mélisande. Scottish Opera 2017. Credit Richard Campbell. (3) — Carolyn Sampson (Mélisande) in SO’s *Pelléas and Mélisande* (c) Richard Campbell

Pappano, Chorus and Orchestra Excel in Holten’s Farewell Die Meistersinger at Covent Garden

16/09/202412/03/2017 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 11.3.2017. (JPr)

170306_1664_meistersinger BRYN TERFEL AS HANS SACHS (C) ROH. PHOTO BY CLIVE BARDA — Bryn Terfel (centre) as Hans Sachs at the conclusion of Act II (c) Clive Barda

ETO Begin their Spring Tour and Bring Tosca to the Hackney Empire

24/11/202410/03/2017 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists and Ensemble of English Touring Opera / Michael Rosewell (conductor). Hackney Empire, London. 9.3.2017. (JPr)

ETO Tosca - LR Tosca, Laura Mitchell; Scarpia, Craig Smith CREDIT Richard Hubert Smith (7) — Laura Mitchell (Tosca) and Craig Smith (Scarpia) © Richard Hubert Smith

OperaHerts’ Tosca Brings ‘Opera on the Grandest Scale’ to Clarendon Muse

14/08/202005/03/2017 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, OperaHerts Chorus, Choirs of Watford Grammar School for Boys and James Rich (percussion) were directed from the piano by Phillip Thomas. Clarendon Muse, Watford, Hertfordshire. 4.3.2017. (JPr)

A Very Different ‘Tristan’ Provides Real, if Un-Wagnerian Pleasures: WNO’s Le Vin herbé

07/03/201703/03/2017 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Frank Martin, Le Vin herbé: (Company Production Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Musicians of Welsh National Opera / James Southall (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 16.2.2017. (GPu)

vinherbe — Caitlin Hulcup (Iseult the Fair) & Tom Randle (Tristan) (c) Robert Workman

English National Opera Gives The Winter’s Tale a Baptism of Which All Should be Proud

06/03/201701/03/2017 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Wigglesworth – The Winter’s Tale (world premiere): Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: James Henshaw) and Orchestra of the English National Opera / Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor). London Coliseum, London, 27.2.2017. (MB)

Opera North Unleashes a ‘Floodtide of Fantasy’ in New Production of Cinderella

24/02/201721/02/2017 by John Leeman

United Kingdom Rossini, Cinderella: Soloists and Chorus of Opera North / Wynn Davies (conductor), Grand Theatre, Leeds. 16.2.2017. (JL)

Amy J Payne as Tisbe, Henry Waddington as Don Magnifico, and Sky Ingram as Clorinda. Photo credit: Alistair Muir. — Amy J Payne as Tisbe, Henry Waddington as Don Magnifico, & Sky Ingram as Clorinda
(c) Alistair Muir

A Witty and Intelligent Production finds Contemporary Relevance in Semele

22/02/201715/02/2017 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Handel, Semele: Mid Wales Opera, Soloists and Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music / Nicholas Cleobury, Richard Burton Theatre, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 8.2. 2017. (GPu)

Ellen Williams (Semele); photograph by Mathew Williams Ellis — Ellen Williams as Semele) (c) Mathew Williams Ellis

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