Italy Rameau, Mozart, Brahms: Grigory Sokolov (piano), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome, 18.4.2012 (JB)
Jack Buckley
Rigoletto by Satellite
Italy Verdi, Rigoletto: (from London via satellite),Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor), screened at the cinema piccolissimo, Ciampino, 17.3.2012 (JB)
Sicilian Blood and Thunder: Cavalleria Rusticana Returns Home
Italy Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana: in concert form, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia, James Conlon (conductor), Ciro Visco (chorus master), Rome, 4.4.2012 (JB)
Trifling with Die Zauberflöte
Italy Mozart, Die Zauberflöte: Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, 31.3.2012 (JB)
Lucky Germany! Santa Cecilia is Coming!
Italy Brahms and Prokofiev: Janine Jansen (violin), Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor), Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome, 3.3.2012 (JB)
Bring Your Overcoat for This Winterreise
Italy Schubert, Die Winterreise: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sala Sinopoli, Rome, 24.2.2012 (JB)
Taking Off Without a Butterfly
Italy Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro dell’ Opera, Pinchas Steinberg (conductor ), Rome, 23.2.2012 (JB)
Overwhelming by Underwhelming: Kissin meets Grieg in Rome
Italy Brahms, Grieg, Tchaikovsky: Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, James Judd (conductor), Evgene Kissin (piano), Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome, 6.2.2012 (JB)