United Kingdom Jette Parker Artists Summer Performance: Artists of the Jette Parker Programme, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Royal Opera House, London, 20.7.2024. (MM-B)
A rewarding summer evening of music from the Jette Parker Artists
Margarida Mota-Bull
A Carmen for the twenty-first century at Glyndebourne
United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival 2024 – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Children’s Chorus (members of Glyndebourne Youth Opera and Trinity Boys Choir), Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Glyndebourne, Lewes, E. Sussex, 16.5.2024. (MM-B)
A further revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s Madama Butterfly is an exhilarating operatic evening
United Kingdom Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Kevin John Edusei (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 14.3.2024. (MM-B)
Live in Concert Joyce DiDonato is a virtuoso singer who dives body and soul into all she sings
Germany Met Stars Live in Concert [5] – Joyce DiDonato in Bochum: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Carrie-Ann Matheson (piano), Il Pomo d’Oro. Live Streamed in HD (directed by Gary Halvorson) from the Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum, Germany, 12.9.2020. (MMB)
Juan Diego Flórez’s appearance at the 100th Salzburg Festival was possibly its defining moment
Austria 100th Salzburg Festival – Canto Lirico with Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) and Vincenzo Scalera (piano): 25.8.2020 performance from Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, reviewed when streamed on ARTE Concert. (MM-B)
Viennese Night: a little taste of the usual magic of the BBC Proms and Vienna
United Kingdom BBC Proms Live – Viennese Night: Sophie Bevan (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor). BBC Concert Orchestra / Bramwell Tovey (conductor). Streamed live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, 31.8.2020. (MMB)
Glyndebourne 2020 – A little brightness in all the pandemic doom and gloom
Like all arts organisations during these gloomy times of the Covid-19 pandemic, Glyndebourne was forced to cancel their Festival 2020 and faced with a financial struggle. Unlike most, however, the Glyndebourne opera house is set in the middle of the Sussex countryside, with beautiful grounds, pleasant gardens and the lovely backdrop of the old country … Read more
Excellent, eclectic, and engaging Monday Concert Live Stream – the Ninth – from Bavarian State Opera
Germany Ninth Monday Concert: Soloists of the Bavarian State Ballet and Bavarian State Orchestra, Günther Groissböck (bass), Gerold Huber (piano), Live stream from the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, 1.6.2020. (MMB)
