United Kingdom Britten, Owen Wingrave: Aldeburgh Festival Soloists, Britten-Pears Orchestra, Choristers of Chelmsford Cathedral/ Mark Wigglesworth (conductor), Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, 15.6.2014. (CS)
Macabre Ambiguity in Aldeburgh’s Owen Wingrave
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Memorable Tribute to Claudio Abbado in Dresden’s Frauenkirche
Dresden Music Festival 2014
Germany Germany Memorial Concert for Claudio Abbado – Mahler, Wagner & Schumann: Waltraud Meier(mezzo-soprano), René Pape (bass), Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor), Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany, Monday 9th June 2014
Welcome Adriana Lecouvreur in Buenos Aires
Argentina Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur: Buenos AiresLírica. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Buenos AiresLírica, Conductor:Carlos Vieu. Teatro Avenida, Buenos Aires. 6.6.2014. (JSJ)
Opera North’s Ring Concludes Apocalyptically with Triumphant Götterdämmerung
United Kingdom Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Richard Farnes, (conductor), Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, 14.6.2014 (JL)
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Two Fine Manifestations of The Fall of the House of Usher
United Kingdom Gordon Getty, Usher House; Claude Debussy (ed. Robert Orledge), La chute de la maison Usher: Soloists, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Lawrence Foster (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 15.6.2014 (PCG)
Frothy, Riotous Barber of Seville in Dickensian Setting
United Kingdom Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia: Opera Holland Park Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus / Matthew Waldren (conductor), Holland Park, London, 13.6.14 (RB)
Superlative Singing and First Class Playing in Brahms’ Requiem
United Kingdom Brahms, Haydn: Gisela Stille (soprano), John Lundgren (baritone), BBC National Chorus of Wales, National Youth Choir of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales/ Thomas Søndergård (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff. 13.6.2014 (PCG)
Chailly and Gewandhaus Orchestra Display Adroitness of Touch
Dresden Music Festival 2014
Germany Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Riccardo Chailly, Semperoper, Dresden, 9.6.2014 (MC)
