Skip to content

Seen and Heard International

SINCE 1999 A LIVE REVIEW SITE FOR OPERA, BALLET, CONCERTS, BROADCASTS, AND THEATRE

Seen and Heard International

  • Home
  • Concerts
    • UK Concerts
    • International Concerts
  • Opera & Ballet
    • International Opera
    • UK Opera
    • Ballet and Dance Reviews
  • Broadcasts & Others
    • Broadcasts and Film
    • Musicals
    • Theatre
  • Articles & Interviews
    • Featured Articles and News
    • Interviews
    • News and Press Releases
    • Season Previews
  • Festivals
    • Festival 2020
    • Festival 2021
      • Aspen Music Festival 2021
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2021
      • Three Choirs Festival 2021
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2021
    • Festival 2022
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2022
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2022
      • Aspen Music Festival 2022
    • Festival 2023
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2023
      • Three Choirs Festival 2023
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2023
    • Festival 2024
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2024
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2024
      • Salzburg Festival 2024
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Home
  • Concerts
    • UK Concerts
    • International Concerts
  • Opera & Ballet
    • International Opera
    • UK Opera
    • Ballet and Dance Reviews
  • Broadcasts & Others
    • Broadcasts and Film
    • Musicals
    • Theatre
  • Articles & Interviews
    • Featured Articles and News
    • Interviews
    • News and Press Releases
    • Season Previews
  • Festivals
    • Festival 2020
    • Festival 2021
      • Aspen Music Festival 2021
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2021
      • Three Choirs Festival 2021
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2021
    • Festival 2022
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2022
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2022
      • Aspen Music Festival 2022
    • Festival 2023
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2023
      • Three Choirs Festival 2023
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2023
    • Festival 2024
      • BBC Promenade Concerts 2024
      • Edinburgh International Festival 2024
      • Salzburg Festival 2024
  • Contact
  • Donate

Gregor Tassie

Benedetti and the RSNO bring a festive occasion to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

23/08/202016/12/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Sibelius: Nicola Benedetti (violin), Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Christian Reif (conductor). Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 14.12.2019. (GT)

Nicola Benedetti

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Glasgow, Gregor Tassie Leave a comment

Andrew Manze presents a stunning evening of Beethoven’s symphonies in Glasgow

21/01/202016/12/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven: Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Manze (conductor). City Hall, Glasgow, 13.12.2019. (GT)

Andrew Manze (c) Chris Christodoulou

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Glasgow, Gregor Tassie 1 Comment

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra start their Beethoven symphonic cycle on brilliant form

31/12/201926/11/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven: Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Kevin John Edusei (conductor), City Halls, Glasgow, 22.11.2019. (GT)

Kevin John Edusei (c) Marco Borggreve

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Glasgow, Gregor Tassie Leave a comment

Maxim Emelyanychev begins his SCO conductorship with a blazing ‘Jupiter’ Symphony

09/12/201918/11/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Philippe Hersant, Prokofiev, Mozart: Carolin Widmann (violin), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor), Glasgow City Halls, 15.11.2019 (GT)

Maxim Emelyanychev (c) Ryan Buchanan

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Glasgow, Gregor Tassie Leave a comment

Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra give their first concert in Yaroslavl

09/12/201916/11/2019 by Gregor Tassie

Russian FederationRussian Federation Mahler: Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor), Yaroslavl Philharmonic Hall, 12.11.2019. (GT)

Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra in Yaroslavl (c) Ivan Andreev

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Gregor Tassie, Yaroslavl Leave a comment

Alexander Sladkovsky opens his Moscow subscription series with an overwhelming Mahler Fifth

09/12/201916/11/2019 by Gregor Tassie

Russian FederationRussian Federation R. Strauss, Mahler: Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Anastasia Kalagina (soprano) /Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow, 11.11.2019. (GT)

Alexander Sladkovsky (c) Ivan Andreev

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, International Concerts Tags Gregor Tassie, Moscow 2 Comments

Pekka Kuusisto and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra premiere works by Anna Clyne

26/11/201910/11/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Beethoven, Anna Clyne, Mozart and Haydn: Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Pekka Kuusisto (Violin/Director). City Halls Glasgow, 8.1.2019. (GT)

Anna Clyne

Read more

Categories Concert Reviews, UK Concerts Tags Glasgow, Gregor Tassie Leave a comment

A revival of its popular Tosca opens Scottish Opera’s season in Glasgow magnificently

08/11/201929/10/2019 by Gregor Tassie

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor). Theatre Royal Glasgow, 26.10.2019. (GT)

End of Act I of Scottish Opera’s Tosca (c) Peter Glossop

Read more

Categories Opera & Ballet, UK Opera Tags Glasgow, Gregor Tassie
  • Page 27 of 35
  • <
  • 1
  • ...
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
  • 30
  • 31
  • ...
  • 35
  • >
Older posts
Newer posts
← Previous Page1 … Page26 Page27 Page28 … Page35 Next →

SEARCH THE SITE

CHOOSE A WEEK TO VIEW

CHOOSE A MONTH TO VIEW

TOP 5 SEEN AND HEARD POSTS

  • The Istanbul Music Festival 2025 closes with a splendidly performed Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle
  • Witty production enhances beautiful singing in Hamburg’s Le nozze di Figaro revival
  • The charming island of Kiniliada hosts an unforgettable evening of Greek and Turkish music
  • The Cunning Little Vixen in Münster – musically convincing but a production which fails to coalesce
  • ‘Caravaggio & Monteverdi’ is a sensational success at the Istanbul Music Festival

RECENT COMMENTS

  • Ross aldridge on Longborough’s Péllias et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific!
  • Zsuzsi on Appl and Lepper showcase Kurtág and Schubert in Lines of Life at the Wigmore Hall
  • Ernest on Nadine Sierra is Violetta in an excellent La traviata at Madrid’s Teatro Real
  • denise stott on Gillian Anderson’s Blanche disappoints as the object of masculine desire in the Young Vic’s replayed 2014 Streetcar
  • Joan B Sutton on An Idomeneo with visual depth and musical incisiveness from San Francisco Opera

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FREE SUMMARY NEWSLETTER

SEEN AND HEARD'S RECENT REVIEWS

  • The Istanbul Music Festival 2025 closes with a splendidly performed Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle (03/07/2025)
__________________________________
  • Witty production enhances beautiful singing in Hamburg’s Le nozze di Figaro revival (02/07/2025) __________________________________
  • The charming island of Kiniliada hosts an unforgettable evening of Greek and Turkish music (02/07/2025) __________________________________
  • The Cunning Little Vixen in Münster – musically convincing but a production which fails to coalesce (01/07/2025) __________________________________
  • ‘Caravaggio & Monteverdi’ is a sensational success at the Istanbul Music Festival (01/07/2025) __________________________________
  • Garsington offers a vision of hope as well as freedom in a musically urgent account of Fidelio (30/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Longborough’s Péllias et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific! (30/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Eyvazov is a compelling Hermann and Netrebko an expressive Lisa in a Vienna revival of The Queen of Spades (29/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Piotr Beczała and Asmik Grigorian triumph in Rusalka at Barcelona’s Liceu (29/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Istanbul’s Music Festival splendidly celebrates nature and Sufi tradition in Karademir’s ‘Strings of Love’ (29/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Appl and Lepper showcase Kurtág and Schubert in Lines of Life at the Wigmore Hall (29/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Nadine Sierra is Violetta in an excellent La traviata at Madrid’s Teatro Real (29/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Boston Ballet’s opulent and beautifully danced Swan Lake in Los Angeles (28/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Hamburg’s Così fan tutte revival is exuberant fun (28/06/2025) __________________________________
  • The Crossing lifts modern choral music to revelatory heights in Manhattan (28/06/2025) __________________________________
  • INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, NEWS, AND SEASON PREVIEWS

    • Blossom Music Festival – 3 July to 7 September (03/07/2025)
    __________________________________
  • 2025 Shostakovich Symposium Leipzig: a report by Gregor Tassie (19/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Lammermuir Festival 2025 – 4 to 15 September (12/06/2025) __________________________________
  • ‘Eternal Light’: Summer Music in City Churches – 18 to 27 June 2025 (04/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Gala de Danza at Westminster’s Central Hall on 25 and 26 June 2025 (03/06/2025) __________________________________
  • Oldenburg State Theatre in 2025-26 (31/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Zach Carstensen examines the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s history with Mahler (24/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Das Rheingold at Grange Park Opera in June and July 2026 with the Orchestra of English National Opera (20/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Grimeborn Opera Festival 2025 – 16 July to 13 September (20/05/2025) __________________________________
  • English National Opera in 2025-26 and their new Music Director André de Ridder (14/05/2025) __________________________________
  • London’s Sadler’s Wells theatres in 2025-26 (13/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2025-26 (09/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Oxford International Song Festival: 10 to 25 October 2025 (09/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Sir Antonio Pappano The Royal Opera’s first Conductor Laureate (09/05/2025) __________________________________
  • An interview with Alon Kariv who plays Chopin’s First Piano Concerto at the Cadogan Hall on Sunday 11 May (06/05/2025) __________________________________
  • Follow us

    Copyright © 2025 Seen and Heard International | All rights reserved |Privacy Policy
    We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.

    Notifications