Spain Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Orchestras Teatro Real and Giovanile Luigi Cherubini, Chorus Teatro Real and Comunidad de Madrid, Riccardo Muti (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 14.4.2014 (JMI)
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Lohengrin Still Showing Mortier’s Influence
Spain Wagner, Lohengrin: Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Hartmut Haenchen/Walter Althammer (conductors), Teatro Real, Madrid, 10 & 11.4.2014. (JMI)
Vivaldi’s Tito Manilo: Claimed by Vivaldi But Mostly by Other Composers
Spain Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, Concerto de’ Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa (conductor), Madrid Auditorio Nacional, 23.3.2014 (JMI).
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)
Brokeback Mountain: An Intense and Convincing Premiere
SpainWuorinen: Brokeback Mountain, Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, Titus Engel (conductor), Teatro Real, Madrid, 5.2.2014 (JMI).
A Disappointing Tristan and Isolde
Switzerland Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Real, Marc Piollet (Conductor), Madrid Teatro Real, 12.1.2014 (JMI)
Amore on the Beach
Spain Donizetti: L’Elisir d’Amore, Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Real, Marc Piollet/Vicente Alberola (conductors), Teatro Real, Madrid, 6, 8 and 9.12.2013 (JMI).