United Kingdom Beethoven, Kohn: The Villiers Quartet, St Andrew’s Psalter Lane Church, Sheffield, 14.11.2015. (JK)
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Sondra Radvanovsky’s Manon Lescaut at the Deutsche Oper Sets the Bar High
Germany Puccini: Manon Lescaut: Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra and Chorus, Donald Runnicles (conductor), Deutsche Oper Berlin, 14.11.2015. (JMI)
Nina Stemme Leads Strong Cast in Vienna Opera’s Elektra
Austria Strauss, Elektra: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, Peter Schneider (conductor). State Opera, Vienna, 13.11.2015. (MB)
(c) Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn.
Joshua Bell and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields: A Thrilling Partnership
United Kingdom Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mozart: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/ Joshua Bell (Director and Violin Soloist), Barbican, London. 11.11.2015. (LB)
Suzuki Broadens his Horizons from Bach to Handel and Vivaldi to Great Effect
United States Bach, Vivaldi, Handel: Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (conductor, organ, harpsichord), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York (6.11.2015) (SSM)
Haas’s Morgen und Abend is a New Existential Opera Exploring Life and Death
United Kingdom Georg Friedrich Haas, Morgen und Abend (world première): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Michael Boder (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 13.11.2015. (JPr)
Carlos Acosta’s Farewell in Carmen Lacks his Usual Charisma
United Kingdom Carlos Acosta’s Carmen (part of a mixed bill including Viscera, Afternoon of a Faun and Tchaikovsky Pas de deux): Soloists, Corps de ballet and Royal Opera House Orchestra / Emmanuel Plasson and Martin Yates (conductors). Directed for the screen by Ross MacGibbon and broadcast to the Empire Cinema, Basildon, Essex. 12.11.2015. (JPr)
A Marriage of Figaro in Berlin that Succeeds on all Fronts for Flimm and Dudamel
Germany Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro: Staatsoper Berlin Orchestra and Chorus, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor), Schiller Theater, Berlin, 13.11.2015 (JMI)
