Italy Florence. Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana. Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Chorus Master, Lorenzo Fratini. Conductor, Giampaolo Bisanti. Stage Director, Mario Pontiggia. Sets and Costumes, Francesco Zito. Lighting, Gianni Paolo Mirenda. Opera di Firenze 23.10.2014 (JB)
Jack Buckley
Puck at the Piano
Italy Mozart, Schumann, Villa-Lobos, Oswald, Chopin Pablo Rossi (piano). Sala Palestrina, Palazzo Pamphilj, Brazilian Embassy, Rome. 30.10.2014 (JB)
Rossini Opera Festival (3): The Coloratura Contralto Herself
Italy ROF(3) Mozart, Gluck, Weber, Rossini, Cherubini, Donizetti, Prokofiev, Glinka, Ponchielli. Ewa Podleś (contralto) Filarmonica Gioacchino Rossini. Conductor, Carlo Tenan. Music by Teatro Rossini, Pesaro 20.08.2014 (JB)
Rossini Opera Festival (1): The Juan Francisco Gatell Recital
Italy Rossini Opera Festival ROF (1)Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Auber, Gounod and Zarzuela, Juan Francisco Gatell (tenor) Beatrice Benzi (piano) Auditorium Pedrotti, Pesaro 18.08.2014 (JB)
photo credit: studio amati bacciardi
Rossini Opera Festival (4): Outwitting Wit
Italy ROF (4) Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Production by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. San Carlo Chorus of Pesaro Chorus Master, Salvatore Francavilla. Orchestra of Teatro Comunale, Bologna Conductor Giacomo Sagripanti, Teatro Rossini, Pesaro. 20.08.2014 (JB)
Rossini Opera Festival (2): Plagiarism Contra Provincialism
Italy. ROF (2) Rossini, Aureliano in Palmira. Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Chorus Master Andrea Faidutti; Conductor, Will Crutchfield, who is also the Research Editor of the new performing edition of the Fondazione Rossini, Teatro Rossini, Pesaro. 18.9.2014. (JB)
The Power of Alexander Ullman’s Pianism
Italy Alexander Ullman (piano) plays Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Debussy, Stravinsky and Liszt. The UK Keyboard Charitable Trust in collaboration with The Pontino Festival at the Baronial Hall of Palazzo Caetani, Fondi. 24.07.2014 (JB)
The Power of Stories
Italy Britten, The Prodigal Son. Members of the Chorus and Instrumentalists of the Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera, Rome. Chorus Master, Roberto Gabbiani. Conductor, James Conlon. Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. 04.07.2014 (JB)
