Mark Berry – Page 6 – Seen and Heard International

Royal Academy of Music’s enjoyable, succinct production of Handel’s Rinaldo, excellently performed

21/03/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Handel, Rinaldo: Soloists, Royal Academy Sinfonia / David Bates (conductor). Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London, 19.3.2026. (MB)

Abigail Sinclair (Almirena) and Ella Orehek-Coddington (Rinaldo) © Craig Fuller

Bach interspersed with Hindemith, Schnittke, and Shostakovich from Antoine Tamestit and the MCO

20/03/202607/03/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Bach, Hindemith, Schnittke, Shostakovich: Antoine Tamestit (viola), Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Kammermusiksaal, Berlin, 2.3.2026. (MB)

Violist Antoine Tamestit (viola) and Mahler Chamber Orchestra © Mark Berry

There was much evidence that the Staatsoper audience in Berlin enjoyed their first Janáček Vixen

04/03/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Children’s Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (director: Vinzenz Weissenburger), Staatsopernchor Berlin (director: Dani Juris), Staatskapelle Berlin / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 28.2.2026. (MB)

Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s *The Cunning Little Vixen* © Monika Rittershaus

Berlioz was a magnificent ending to a magnificent Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra evening

28/02/2026 by Mark Berry

Germany Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Berlioz: Noah Bendix-Balgley (violin), Bruno Delepelaire (cello), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Tugan Sokhiev (conductor). Philharmonie Berlin, 27.2.2026. (MB)

Cellist Bruno Delepelaire (cello) and violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, conductor Tugan Sokhiev and the BPO © Stephan Rabold

Guildhall School’s committed musical performances in the operatic rarity Britten’s Owen Wingrave

25/02/202624/02/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Britten, Owen Wingrave: Soloists, Guildhall School Orchestra / Dominic Wheeler (conductor). Silk Street Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, 23.2.2026. (MB)

Tobias Campos Santiñaque (Lechmere/Narrator) in *Owen Wingrave* © David Monteith-Hodge

Tamara Stefanovich’s recital reminded us, György Kurtág is alive and writing

23/02/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom ‘Labyrinth’ – Bach, Kurtág, Debussy, and Liszt: Tamara Stefanovich (piano). Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 19.2.2026. (MB)

Tamara Stefanovich at Milton Court © Ed Maitland Smith

Weill’s Mahagonny is a properly barbed, defiant way for ENO to bid London au revoir

18/02/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Weill, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny): Soloists, Chorus, Additional Chorus (director: Matthew Quinn) and Orchestra of the English National Opera / André de Ridder (conductor). London Coliseum, 16.2.2026. (MB)

Danielle de Niese (centre front, Jenny) and Damon Gould (rear, Jenny’s Boy) and Ella Kirkpatrick, Deborah Davison and Claire Mitcher (Jenny’s Girls) © Tristram Kenton

The dizzying excellence of the JACK Quartet in music by Helmut Lachenmann

10/02/202610/02/2026 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Lachenmann: JACK Quartet (Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman [violins], John Pickford Richards [viola], Jay Campbell [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 7.2.2026 (MB)

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