SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, THEATRE , BROADCASTS AND FILMS
Italy Rossini Opera Festival (4) La Gazza Ladra. Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Communale Bologna, Chorus Master, Andrea Faidutti, Conductor, Donato Renzetti; Staging by Damiano Michieletto with sets by Paolo Fantin, Cotumes by Carla Teti and Lighting by Alessandro Carletti. Adriatic Arena, Pesaro. 16.8.2015 (JB)
Italy Rossini Opera Festival (1) La Gazzetta: Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro Comunale of Bologna. Conductor, Enrique Mazzola; Stage Director, Marco Carniti; Sets by Manuela Gasperoni; Costumes by Maria Filippi; Lighting by Fabio Rossi; Chorus Master, Andrea Faiutti. Teatro Rossini Pesaro. 14.8.2015 (JB)
Italy Bach/Siloti, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Britten, Prokofiev. Vitaly Pisarenko (piano) Concert of the Pontino Festival of Music in presentation with the Keyboard Charitable Trust in the courtyard of the town hall of Sabaudia 27.07.2015 (JB)
United Kingdom Rossini, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Bizet / Sarasate, Ravel. Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Conductor, George Pehlivanian, Uto Ughi (violin). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica Rome 23.07.2015. (JB)
Italy Brahms Schubert, Arcadi Volodos piano). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome 13.05.2015 (JB)
Italy The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me by Sofka Zinovieff Jonathan Cape, London. 436pp £25.00 (jacket price)
United Kingdom Bach, Beethoven, Schubert. Grigory Sokolov (piano). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome. 29-04.2015 (JB)
Italy Bach, Beethoven, Chopin. Rafal Blechacz (piano) Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome, 22.4.2015. (JB)