This Week’s Review

Exploring Mediterranean Staples from Centuries Ago

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United StatesUnited States Tarantella! Rhythms of the Old Mediterranean: Amanda Powell (soprano and guest co-director), Brian Kay (plucked instruments and guest co-director), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (co-director), Bath United Church of Christ, Akron, Ohio, 12.6.2018. (MSJ)

Members of Apollo's Fire: photo credit - Erica Brenner Productions, (courtesy of Apollo's Fire)
Members of Apollo’s Fire: photo credit – Erica Brenner Productions, (courtesy of Apollo’s Fire)

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Singers Excel in an Inert Boris Godunov Concert

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United StatesUnited States Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov (1869 version): Soloists, San Francisco Symphony Chorus (Ragnar Bohlin [director]), Pacific Boychoir  (Andrew Brown [director]), San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco. 14.6.2018. (HS)

Soloists, San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas (c) Cory Weaver

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Rarely Performed Donizetti Farce Introduces Fine Young Voices

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland Donizetti, I pazzi per progetto: Soloists, Aimi Sugo (piano), Gerald Karni (viola), Rosamund van der Westhuizen (cello), Raul Castro Estévez (clarinet), Karin Yamaguchi (horn), / Caspar Deichmann (conductor), Opernverein Zürich, Theater im Seefeld, Zurich, 14.6.2018 (JR)

Photo credit: Rémy Bourgeois
Donizetti’s I pazzi per progetto (c) Rémy Bourgeois

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