Broadcasts, Musicals, & Others

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

Seven stars align for an engrossing Metropolitan Opera Fidelio revival

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United StatesUnited States The Met: Live in HD – Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Susanna Mälkki (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Gary Halvorson) from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 15.3.2025. (JPr)

The Prisoners’ Chorus from Fidelio Act I © Karen Almond/Met Opera

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Michael Volle is unsurpassable again as Wotan in David McVicar’s mostly traditional La Scala Die Walküre

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ItalyItaly Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra / Simone Young (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Ella Gallieni) from La Scala, Milan, 12.2.2025 and available on demand until 19.2.2025. (JPr)

Michael Volle (centre front, Wotan), Camilla Nylund (front right, Brünnhilde), and Okka von der Damerau (rear, Fricka) © Teatro alla Scala/Brescia e Amisano

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Highly entertaining Catch me if you can in Bremerhaven

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GermanyGermany McNally, Whitman and Shaiman, Catch me if you can: Soloists, Chorus, and Extras of Stadttheater Bremerhaven, Philharmonic Orchestra Bremerhaven / Davide Perniceni (conductor). Stadttheater Bremerhaven, 1.2.2025. (DM-D)

Tobias Bieri (Frank Abagnale Jr.) and Celena Pieper (Brenda Strong) © Heiko Sandelmann

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Lise Davidsen is delightfully diva-ish in Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s ironic Vienna Ariadne auf Naxos

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AustriaAustria Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists, Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jasmina Eleta) from the Vienna State Opera, 28.1.2025. (JPr)

Ariadne (Lise Davidsen) and the Nymphs © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

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