This Week’s Review – Page 196 – Seen and Heard International

World Première of Nick Powell’s Cold Calling: The Arctic Project Blows Hot and Cold

23/09/201621/09/2016 by Geoff Read

United Kingdom Nick Powell, Cold Calling: The Arctic Project (a musical-theatre experience created and composed by Nick Powell, written and directed by Anthony Neilson): City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Jonathan Bloxham (conductor). Studio Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 16.9.2016. (GR)

Photo credit: Robert Day — *Cold Calling: The Arctic Project* (c) Robert Day

Bampton Classical Opera Come to Town with Gluck and Arne Operas

23/09/201621/09/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Gluck, Bauci e Filemone & Arne, The Judgment of Paris (sung in English): Soloists, CHROMA, Paul Wingfield (conductor). St John’s, Smith Square, London, 13.9.2016. (MB)

A Well-Sung If Too-Cautious Andrea Chénier

23/09/201620/09/2016 by Harvey Steiman

United States Giordano, Andrea Chénier: Soloists and chorus of San Francisco Opera/Nicola Luisotti (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 17.9.2016. (HS)

Yonghoon Lee as Andrea Chénier and George Gagnidze as Carlo Gérard in Act II of Giordano's "Andrea Chénier" (Photo credit: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) — Yonghoon Lee (Andrea Chénier) and George Gagnidze (Carlo Gérard) in *Andrea Chénier*
(Photo credit: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera)

A Rarely Heard Tchaikovsky Opera Has Its Spanish Premiere in Oviedo

23/09/201619/09/2016 by José Irurzun

Spain Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa, Orchestra Principado de Asturias, Coro Ópera Oviedo, Rossen Milanov (conductor), Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo, 17.9.2016. (JMI)

Mazeppa. Courtesy of Opera Oviedo. — *Mazeppa* (c) Opera Oviedo.

Slow Start, Big Finish for Bright Sheng World Premiere

21/09/201617/09/2016 by Harvey Steiman

United States Bright Sheng: Dream of the Red Chamber, Soloists, orchestra and chorus of San Francisco Opera, George Manahan (conductor), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 13.9.2016. (HS)

Pureum Jo as Dai Yu in Sheng and Hwang's "Dream of the Red Chamber" ©Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera — Pureum Jo as Dai Yu in Sheng and Hwang’s “Dream of the Red Chamber”
©Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

If Percussion were an Olympic Sport Grubinger Wins Gold for Austria

21/09/201616/09/2016 by John Rhodes

Switzerland Dorman, Stravinsky: Martin Grubinger (percussion), Tonhalle Orchester/Lionel Bringuier (conductor), Tonhalle, Zurich, 15.09.16. (JR)

A Vibrant Sound of Glowing Intensity from Young German Musicians

15/09/201614/09/2016 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Musikfest Berlin 2016 [3] – Matineekonzert. Varèse, Ligeti, Beethoven: Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Junge Deutsche Philharmonie/Jonathan Nott (conductor), Philharmonie, Berlin, 11.9.2016. (MC)

Rare Appearances from Bantock, Bowen and Musgrave at this British music concert

14/08/202014/09/2016 by Rob Barnett

United Kingdom Bantock, Bowen, Musgrave: Lawrence Power (viola), BBC Philharmonic/Michael Seal (conductor), BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 9.9.2016. (RB)

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