United States Various composers, Aspen Music Festival [6] (HS)
This Week’s Review
Glimmerglass Festival’s Barber of Seville Achieves Lift Off and Soars
United States The Glimmerglass Festival [1] – Rossini, The Barber of Seville: Soloists, The Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra and Chorus /Joseph Colaneri (conductor), Alice Busch Opera Theater, Cooperstown, 20.7.2018. (RP)
© Karli Cadel/The Glimmerglass Festival
A Thrilling Night With The Vampire In Läckö
Sweden Heinrich Marschner, Der Vampyr (The Vampire): Soloists of Läckö Slottsopera, Läckö Opera Orchestra / Simon Phipps (conductor), Läckö Castle courtyard, 15.7.2018. (NS)
A Somewhat Patchwork Beethoven Ninth at the Proms
United Kingdom Prom 9 – War and Peace: Ešenvalds, Britten, Beethoven: Erin Wall (soprano), Judit Kutasi (mezzo-soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), Franz-Josef Selig (baritone), BBC Proms Youth Choir, World Orchestra for Peace / Donald Runnicles and Thomas Halsey (Ešenvalds). Royal Albert Hall, London, 21.7.2018. (CC)
© BBC Proms/Chris Christodoulou
Choral Soundscapes Celebrate R. Murray Schafer’s 85th Birthday
Canada Schafer: Christina Cichos (soprano), Fabiana Katz (alto), Steven Belanger (baritone), George Roberts (narrator), Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver Chamber Orchestra / Jon Washburn (conductor), Chan Centre, Vancouver, 6.7.2018. (GN)
A Loeffler Discovery and a Charlotte Bray Premiere Impress in Aix-en-Provence
France Festival d’Aix-en-Provence [1], ‘L’Alto à l’honneur’ – Loeffler, Bray, Liszt, Kodály, and Brahms: Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Andrea Hill (soprano), Edwige Herchenroder (piano). Conservatoire Darius Milhaud, Aix, 13.7.2018. (MB)
Elegance, Authority and Charisma as the Calidore String Quartet Make their Proms Debut
United Kingdom Proms at Cadogan Hall 1. Caroline Shaw, Schumann: Javier Perianes (piano), Calidore String Quartet (Jeffrey Meyers & Ryan Meehan [violins], Jeremy Berry [viola], Estelle Choi [cello]), Cadogan Hall, London, 16.8.2018. (CS)
The Bayerische Staatsoper Festival Continues with Le nozze di Figaro
Germany Munich Opera Festival 2018 [4] – Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Bayerische Staatsoper Chorus and Orchestra / Constantinos Carydis (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 15.7.2018. (JMI)
