A new production of Don Giovanni at Prague’s Estates Theatre offers surprises, charms and thrills

Czech RepublicCzech Republic Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra / Karsten Januschke (conductor). Performed at Národní Divadlo, Estates Theatre, Prague and premiered 24.4.2021 on Czech Television and available for streaming globally until 1.5.2021. (RP)

Pavol Kubáň (Don Giovanni), Jana Sibera (Donna Anna)
and Richard Samek (Don Ottavio) © Jan Pohribný

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OOTS’s Timelapse 2.0 allows past and present to mix and mingle with joyful abandon and yield miraculous results

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Timelapse 2.0 – Night Owl Digital Concert: Trish Clowes (saxophone), David Gordon (harpsichord and piano), Orchestra of the Swan / David LePage (violin/director). Filmed in Purfleet, first streamed on 26.4.2021. (CC)

Orchestra of the Swan’s Timelapse 2.0

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Franz Welser-Möst and his musicians are conjuring Corigliano in Cleveland

United StatesUnited States In Focus/Episode Nine, Magical Musicians: Marc Damoulakis (percussion), Strings of the Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor). Filmed at Severance Hall, Cleveland, on 25-27.3.2021, and reviewed as a video stream. (MSJ)

Marc Damoulakis performs Corigliano’s Conjurer © Roger Mastroianni

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I Fagiolini’s Re-Wilding The Waste Land is the perfect way to end the LIVE from London Spring series

United KingdomUnited Kingdom LIVE from London Spring – Re-Wilding The Waste Land: Tamsin Greig (narrator), Robert Hollingworth (director/countertenor), I Fagiolini (Anna Crookes, Rebecca Lea [sopranos], Martha McLorinan [mezzo-soprano], Matthew Long [countertenor], Greg Skidmore [baritone], Frederick Long [bass]). Streamed from the VOCES8 Centre, London, on 22.4.2021. (CC)

Tasmin Greig (narrator) with I Fagiolini

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Vienna’s intense new Parsifal breakouts from the confinement of Kirill Serebrennikov’s new production

AustriaAustria Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Nikolay Sidorenko (actor), Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Filmed (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Vienna State Opera on 11.4.2021 and streamed on ARTE Concert (available until 17.7.2021 click here). (JPr)

Kirill Serebrennikov’s Parsifal Act III (final scene) © Michael Pöhn

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Imagination and virtuosity in Shai Wosner’s Philadelphia recital

United StatesUnited States Various: Shai Wosner (piano). Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 8.4.2021. Reviewed from the 11.4.21 stream. (BJ)

Shai Wosner plays for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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