United Kingdom Back in Harmony – Various: The King’s Singers, Holy Trinity Church, Chrishall, Herts. Stream viewed via IDAGIO’s Global Concert Hall on 30.7.2020. (RP)
Back in Harmony – a new digital world for The King’s Singers
Theatre, Musicals, Broadcasts & Films
Reviews and articles of some events that are not Concerts, Opera, or Dance, and others that have been streamed, shown in the cinema or on TV
Light shines from the darkness of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quartet at the Roman River Festival
United Kingdom Schubert: Ellie Fagg & Tom Norris (violins), Dorothea Vogel (viola), Orlando Jopling (cello), Roman River Festival, 30.7.2020. (CS)
Viva La Diva! Anna Netrebko sang Tosca in Naples and brought some light to our current darkness
Italy Puccini, Tosca (concert version): Soloists, Chorus (chorus director: Gea Garatti Ansini), Children Chorus (chorus director: Stefania Rinaldi), and Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo / Juraj Valčuha (conductor). July 2020 performance in the Piazza del Plebiscito, live streamed and reviewed on 30.7.2020. (JPr)
LPOnline Summer Sessions performances that exuded life and happiness
United Kingdom LPO Summer Sesssions [2]: Rossini, Mozart, Janáček: London Philharmonic Winds. Reviewed as streamed on YouTube from Henry Wood Hall, London, 29.7.2020. (CC)
Pittsburgh Festival Opera beats the pandemic with grit, ingenuity and technology
United States UNSTAGED: Pittsburgh Festival Opera Pandemic Season: Various artists, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, streaming from Pittsburgh, 10-26.7.2020. (RP)
From La Jolla, California, Weilerstein and Barnatan dance eloquently with Beethoven
United States Beethoven: Alisa Weilerstein (cello), Inon Barnatan (piano), presented virtually by Aspen Music Festival, streaming from Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center, La Jolla, California, 26.7.2020. (HS)
High-powered Shostakovich anchors Seattle Chamber Music Society Virtual Summer Festival performance
United States Various composers: Soloists, Seattle Chamber Music Society, streaming from The Center for Chamber Music, Seattle, 24.7.2020. (ZC)
Lise Davidsen’s compellingly expressive singing doesn’t entirely rescue Tobias Kratzer’s Fidelio
United Kingdom Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Performance of 9.3.2020 (directed for the screen by Rhodri Huw), televised on BBC Four, and reviewed on 26.7.2020. (JPr)
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