Germany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [6] – 31.5.2023, Kulturpalast, Dresden: Piano Recital – Alexandra Dovgan (piano). (MC)
Determined and earnest Dovgan and a memorable Kreuzchor concert in Dresden
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In Dresden: Nils Landgren’s R&B, funk and jazz and David Garrett’s miniatures, lollipops and encores
Germany Dresden Music Festival 2023 [3] – 29.5.2023, Semperoper, Dresden: ‘Nils Landgren & Friends’: Nils Landgren (trombone, vocals), Viktoria Tolstoy (vocals), Ida Sand (vocals, keyboard), Joel Lyssarides (piano), Simon Oslender (Hammond organ), Wolfgang Haffner (drummer), Thomas Stieger (bass). (MC)
Dresden triumphs: Blomstedt’s Mendelssohn and the Philharmonie’s Ligeti, Prokofiev and Stravinsky
Dresden Music Festival 2023 (Dresdner Musikfestspiele 2023) (MC) This year the Dresden Music Festival (Dresdner Musikfestspiele) is dedicated to the areas of tension in music and society under the motto BLACKANDWHITE (SCHWARZWEISS). Festival artistic director Jan Vogler had the idea for the motto, ‘whilst reading Leo Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Peace. The great writer … Read more
Opera North’s first Ariadne auf Naxos is positively ‘Comic, heroic and romantic’
United Kingdom Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos: Soloists, Orchestra of Opera North / Antony Hermus (conductor). The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays. 10.3.2023. (MC)
Opera North’s Tosca revival certainly has the power to captivate an audience
United Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Gary Walker (conductor). The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays. 9.3.2023. (MC)
Opera North’s Vixen has stood the test of time and is a genuine treat for eyes and ears
United Kingdom Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Orchestra of Opera North / Andrew Gourley (conductor). The Lowry Theatre, Salford. 7.3.2023. (MC)
RNCM’s Die Fledermaus was a champagne occasion that just fizzed along
United Kingdom Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus: Royal Northern College of Music Opera Chorus and Orchestra / David Parry (conductor). RNCM Theatre, Manchester 13.12.2022. (MC)
Alice Coote leads an impressive performance of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice for Opera North
United Kingdom Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice: Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Antony Hermus (conductor). The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays. 18.11.2022. (MC)
