United States Various composers, Carthage Conquer’d: Dreams of Tunis in the Baroque Imagination: Presented by Salon/Sanctuary Concerts, The Players Club, New York City, 12.12.2019. (CP)
North Africa in myth and fantasy at NYC’s The Players Club
New York
Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s perspectives on Schubert’s Winterreise at Carnegie Hall
United States Schubert, Winterreise: Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano), Yannick Nézet-Séguin (piano). Carnegie Hall, New York, 15.12.2019. (RP)
© Chris Lee
From Sō Percussion, an astonishing New York survey of 100 years
United States Beyer, Cage, Chávez, Lang, Reich, Trueman, Varèse, Wolfe, Xenakis: Sō Percussion (Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski and Jason Treuting) and Friends. Zankel Hall, New York City, 7.12.2019. (DS)
Chanticleer captures the mystery of the Christmas Story in the Baroque Church of St Ignatius Loyola
United States A Chanticleer Christmas: Chanticleer / William Fred Scott (music director), The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York, 8.12.2019. (RP)
Heartbeat Opera’s updated Der Freischütz delivers the magic bullet
United States Weber, Der Freischütz: Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra / Daniel Schlosberg (conductor), The Heartbeat Opera, Rose Nagelberg Theatre, New York, 7.12.2019. (RP)
A triumphant Met debut for Lise Davidsen in The Queen of Spades
United States Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko (conductor), Metropolitan Opera, New York, 29.11.2019. (RP)
in The Queen of Spades © Ken Howard/Met Opera
Magdalena Kožená, Sir Simon Rattle and their exceptional friends at Alice Tully Hall
United States Various Composers: Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano), Giovanni Guzzo (violin), Rahel Maria Rilling (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Dávid Adorján (cello), Kaspar Zehnder (flute), Andrew Marriner (clarinet), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Alice Tully Hall, New York, 26.11.2019. (RP)
Amihai Grosz, Dávid Adorján, Andrew Marriner © Kevin Yatarola
A visually sumptuous and imaginative Akhnaten production from the Met
United States Philip Glass, Akhnaten: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Karen Kamensek (Conductor), Broadcast live to the Dundonald Omniplex Cinema, Belfast from the Metropolitan Opera, New York 23.11.2019. (RB)
in Akhnaten (c) Karen Almond/Met Opera