United Kingdom David Grubb – Circadia: David Grubb (violin, viola, mandolin, musical saw), Annie Perry (clarinet, bass clarinet), Corben Lee (piano, keyboards), Daniel Whitting (acoustic guitar, electric guitar), Aidan Thorne (double bass, bass guitar), John Reynolds (drums). Richard Burton Theatre at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 21.11.2024. (LJ)
Cardiff
Barber’s Knoxville arrives in Cardiff in a superlative new guise
United Kingdom Bernstein, Barber, Schubert: Nicky Spence (tenor), Welsh National Opera Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 9.11.2024. (PCG)
BBC NOW plays three Cardiff premieres in one evening
United Kingdom Montgomery, Kats-Chernin, Watkins: Emily Sun (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Gemma New (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 24.10.2024. (PCG)
Adele Thomas’s powerful and passionate Rigoletto for the beleaguered WNO
United Kingdom Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Pietro Rizzo (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.9.2024. (GPu)
A student production relishes the subversive energy of Bizet’s Doctor Miracle with considerable vigour
United Kingdom Bizet, Doctor Miracle: Soloists of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama / Michael Pollock (piano). Dora Stoutzker Hall, Cardiff. 2.7.2024. (GP)
A delightful, poignant and thought-provoking Penarth lunchtime Schubertiade
United Kingdom Penarth Chamber Music Festival – Schubert: Katharine Dain (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Ben Goldscheider (horn), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Ágnes Langer (violin), Robert Plane (clarinet). Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, 29.6.2024. (GP)
David McVicar creates a vividly immediate and essentially realist setting for WNO’s new Il trittico
United Kingdom Puccini, Il trittico: Soloists, Welsh National Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi (conductor). Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 22.6.2024. (CR)
A BBC NOW collection of errant nymphs in Cardiff
United Kingdom Debussy, Mason, Franck: Noémi Györi (flute), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Gergely Madaras (conductor). Hoddinott Hall, Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 21.6.2024. (PCG)