Spain Verdi: Simon Boccanegra, Orchestra Comunitat Valenciana, Chorus Generalitat Valenciana, Evelino Pidò (conductor), Valencia’s Palau de Les Arts, 27.3.2014 (JMI).
Placido Domingo at His Most Convincing in Simon Boccanegra
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Anxiety, Doubt and Terror in Honeck’s Bruckner
United States Vivier, Bruckner: New York Philharmonic, Manfred Honeck (conductor), Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, 29.3.2014 (DA)Cavalli’s Ormindo Splendidly Realised in an Ideal Performance Space.
United KingdomCavalli, Soloists, Orchestra of Early Opera Company. Christian Curnyn (conductor). The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 26.3.2014. (CS)
Schmidt’s Luxuriant Second Symphony: A Rare Bird at the Royal Academy
United Kingdom Schmidt, Academy Symphony Orchestra, Semyon Bychkov (conductor), Duke’s Hall Royal Academy of Music, London, 28.3.2014 (RB)
East and West (Plus Two 24-Year-Olds) in “Celebrate Asia”
United States Takemitsu, Karpen, Li, and Grieg: The Six Tones: Nguyen Thanh Thuy (dan trahn), Bgo Tra My (dan bau), Stefan Östersjö (ti ba, banjo, and guitar), Haochen Zhang (piano) Seattle Symphony, Julia Tai (conductor), Benaroya Hall, Seattle, 21.3.2014 (BJ)
Paul Lewis: Brains and Brawn Synthesized
J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Mussorgsky, Paul Lewis (piano), Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, 26.3.2014 (SSM)
Don Giovanni and the Paparazzi
Sweden. Mozart Don Giovanni. Soloists, The Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra. Lawrence Renes (conductor). The Royal Opera, Stockholm, 15.3.2014. Premiere (GF)
Winterreise to Waly – Bostridge in Rome
Italy Schubert, Ives, Britten Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) Accademia Filarmonica Romana at Teatro Argentina, Rome 27.03.2014 (JB)