Bernstein’s Candide Triumphs at the Liceu
21/10/2018
Bernstein, Candide (concert version): Liceu Chorus and Orchestra /John DeMain (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 18.10.2018. (JMI)
Meghan Picerno and Paul Appleby in Candide © A. Bofill
Comedy in Music from Rainer Hersch’s Entertaining Memories of Victor Borge
16/10/2018
Rainer’s Hersch’s Victor Borge: Rainer Hersch with Danny Driver (piano), Laura Ruhl Vidal (soprano). Cadogan Hall, London, 12.10.2018. (JPr)
Rainer Hersch © Hans Staartjes
Weathering the Storm: Zeller’s Mystery Provides More Questions than Answers
14/10/2018
Florian Zeller, The Height of the Storm (translated by Christopher Hampton): Wyndham’s Theatre, London. 7.10.2018. (CSa)
Jonathan Pryce & Eileen Atkins in The Height of the Storm (c) Tristram Kenton
‘For One Brief Shining Moment’ LMTO and a Wonderful Cast Bring Camelot to the Palladium
08/10/2018
LMTO – Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot: Soloists, London Music Theatre Chorus and Orchestra / Freddie Tapner (conductor). London Palladium. 6.10.2018. (JPr)
Cast, Chorus and Orchestra of LMTO’s Camelot (c) Lidia Crisafulli
John Wilson’s On the Town with Talented Cast and Outstanding LSO is a Worthy Tribute to Bernstein
26/08/2018
Prom 57 – On the Town (Music by Leonard Bernstein, Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) concert performance: Soloists, Students from ArtsEd, London Symphony Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 25.8.2018. (JPr)
Finale of On the Town at the BBC Proms (c) BBC/Mark Allan.
A Superb Concert Performance of West Side Story at the BBC Proms
13/08/2018
PROM 38 – Bernstein, West Side Story (concert version): Soloists, students from ArtsEd and Mountview, John Wilson Orchestra / John Wilson (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 11.8.2018. (CC)
Cast of West Side Story at the BBC Proms, John Wilson Orchestra & John Wilson (conductor)
(c) BBC/Chris Christodoulou
The Full Monty – Bernstein’s Mass at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival
21/07/2018
2018 Mostly Mozart Festival – Bernstein, Mass: Soloists, Concert Chorale of New York, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra / Louis Langrée (conductor), Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, New York, 18.7.2018. (RP)
Nmon Ford (Celebrant) & dancers in Bernstein’s Mass at the 2018 Mostly Mozart Festival
© Richard Termine
Thanks to Barry Humphries and Meow Meow Weimar Germany’s Silenced Voices are Heard Once More
13/07/2018
Various compoers, Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret: Barry Humphries (conférencier/voice), Meow Meow (cabaret artist), Satu Vänskä (musical director/voice), Aurora Orchestra, Barbican Theatre, London, 12.7.2018. (JPr)
Barry Humphries and Meow Meow
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