This Week’s Review – Page 34 – Seen and Heard International

Juggling on the Nile – Philip Glass’s Akhnaten at the Metropolitan Opera

09/12/201922/11/2019 by Rick Perdian

United States Glass, Akhnaten: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Karen Kamensek (conductor), Metropolitan Opera, New York, 19.11.2019. (RP)

Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role of Glass’s *Akhnaten*
© Karen Almond/Met Opera

A gender-flipping Shrew from the RSC at the Barbican Theatre

09/12/201922/11/2019 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew: Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London, 20.11.2019. (CS)

Claire Price as Petruchia and Joseph Arkley as Katherine (c) Ikin Yum Photography

Zlata Chochieva’s unique Chopin and Rachmaninoff arrive in Vancouver

09/12/201920/11/2019 by Geoffrey Newman

Canada Chopin, Rachmaninoff: Zlata Chochieva (piano), Vancouver Playhouse, Vancouver, 10.11.2019. (GN)

Powerful Prokofiev from Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

09/12/201919/11/2019 by Rick Perdian

United States Prokofiev: Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Riccardo Muti, Carnegie Hall, New York, 16.12.2019. (RP)

Riccardo Muti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra © Todd Rosenberg

A visual bag of tricks: Barrie Kosky’s The Magic Flute returns to LA Opera

09/12/201918/11/2019 by Jane Rosenberg

United States Mozart, The Magic Flute: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 16.11.2019. (JRo)

Theo Hoffman (Papageno) and Zuzana Markova (Pamina) (c) Cory Weaver

Affection and warmth from Tilson Thomas and the LSO

09/12/201916/11/2019 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Tilson Thomas, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev: Nicola Benedetti (violin), London Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), 14.11.2019. (CS)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales present heroes and heartache

09/12/201915/11/2019 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Grieg, Tchaikovsky: Yevgeny Sudbin (piano), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Joseph Swensen (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 14.11.2019. (PCG)

Inspiration and unpredictability from Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt

26/11/201914/11/2019 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Lutosławski, Beethoven, Kurtág, Franck: Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Lars Vogt (piano), Wigmore Hall, London 12.11.2019. (CS)

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