Spain Rossini: L’Italiana in Algeri, Orchestra Comunitat Valenciana, Chorus Generalitat Valenciana, Ottavio Dantone (conductor), Palau de Les Arts, Valencia, 11.3.2014 (JMI)
L’Italiana in Algeria Done as Farce
JM Irurzun
Gluck’s Alceste at Teatro Real While Remembering Its Artistic DIrector, Gerard Mortier
Gluck: Alceste, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Real, Ivor Bolton (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 4 & 8.3.2014 (JMI).
Handel’s La Resurrezione:Not Secular Enough
Spain Handel: La Resurrezione, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, René Jacobs (conductor), Madrid Auditorium, 6.3.2014 (JMI)
Lucia di Lammermoor at La Scala: Playing Safe Does Not Always Work
Italy Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro alla Scala, Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), La Scala, Milan, 19 & 21.2.2014 (JMI).
Il Trovatore: La Scala Could Do Better
Italy Verdi: Il Trovatore: Orchestra and Chorus Teatro allcala, Daniele Rustioni (conductor), Milan’s Teatro alla Scala,18 & 20.2.2014 (JMI).
Pucccini’s Edgar: No Masterpiece But Undeservedly Neglected
Germany Puccini: Edgar, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Chor and Kinderchor der Oper Frankfurt, Marc Soustrot (conductor), Frankfurt Opernhaus, 16.2.2014 (JMI)
(c) Monika Rittershaus
Falstaff: Laughs at Any Cost
Germany Verdi: Falstaff, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Bertrand De Billy (conductor), Opernhaus Frankfurt, 15.2.2014 (JMI)
und das Ensemble
(c) Monika Rittershaus
Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso: Taking the Humourous Path
Germany Vivaldi: Orlando Furioso, Frankfurter Opern und Museumorchester, Felice Venanzoni (conductor), Opernhaus Frankfurt, 14.2.2014 (JMI)
