This Week’s Review – Page 37 – Seen and Heard International

Balance issues and uneven singing compromise a handsome Vivaldi production in Wexford

15/11/201901/11/2019 by Robert Beattie

Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [2] – Vivaldi, Dorilla in Tempe: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Andrea Marchiol (conductor), O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House, Wexford, 26.10.2019. (RB)

Rosa Bove (Filindo), with dancers (c) Clive Barda

Iván Fischer’s overly respectful reading of Orfeo in Geneva

15/11/201901/11/2019 by Antoine Lévy-Leboyer

Switzerland Monteverdi, Orfeo: Soloists, Choir and Dancers of the Iván Fischer Opera Company (chorus master: Soma Dinyes), Budapest Festival Orchestra / Iván Fischer (conductor), Grand Théâtre de Genève, 28.10.2019. (ALL)

Emőke Baráth, Antonio Abete and Valerio Contaldo; (c) Judith Horváth

An exuberant RSC As You Like It at the Barbican Theatre

15/11/201931/10/2019 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom Shakespeare, As You Like It: Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, London, 29.10.2019. (CS)

Sandy Grierson (Touchstone); photo credit, Topher McGrillis (c) RSC

Instrumental wonder in Slobodeniouk’s Cleveland debut

15/11/201930/10/2019 by Mark S Jordan

United States Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Nielsen: Marc-André Hamelin (piano), Cleveland Orchestra / Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor), Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, 24.10.2019. (MSJ)

An outstanding production of Massenet’s Don Quichotte by Wexford Festival Opera

15/11/201930/10/2019 by Robert Beattie

Ireland Wexford Festival Opera 2019 [1] – Massenet, Don Quichotte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera / Timothy Myers (conductor), Wexford Opera House, Wexford Opera Festival, Wexford, 25.10.2019. (RB)

Aigul Akhmetshina and Goderdz Janelidze (c) Clive Barda

A beautifully conceived and immaculately executed programme from Queyras and Tharaud

17/08/202029/10/2019 by Claire Seymour

United Kingdom J.S. Bach, Marais, Poulenc, Debussy: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 28.10.2019. (CS)

Jean-Guihen Queryas (c) Solea Management

Daniel Müller-Schott and Welsh National Opera Orchestra in Concert

08/11/201928/10/2019 by Paul Corfield Godfrey

United Kingdom Smetana, Debussy, Dvořák: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello), Welsh National Opera Orchestra / Tomáš Hanus (conductor). St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 27.10.2019. (PCG)

Jansons and the Bavarian RSO on autopilot with Shostakovich’s Tenth in Munich

08/11/201928/10/2019 by John Rhodes

Germany Weber, R. Strauss, Shostakovich: Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Mariss Jansons (conductor), Gasteig Philharmonic Hall, Munich, 25.10.2019. (JR)

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