Jim Pritchard

Currentzis, Grigorian and Tetelman overcome Carrizo’s choreographic oddities in Salzburg’s Carmen

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AustriaAustria Salzburg Festival 2026 [1] – Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Utopia Choir (chorus master: Vitaly Polonsky), Salzburg Bach Choir (chorus master: Michael Schneider), Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor (chorus masters: Wolfgang Götz, Regina Sgier), Utopia Orchestra / Teodor Currentzis (conductor). Filmed (directed by Michael Beyer) at the Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg, on 8.8.2026 and streamed on STAGE+ on 9.8.2026. (JPr)

Eurudike De Beul (Don José’s Mother), Jonathan Tetelman (Don José) and Kristina Mkhitaryan (Micaëla) © SF/Thomas Aurin

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This Fliegende Holländer revival proves quite a tonic after the anti-human beginning to the ‘AI’-Ring

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [4] – Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra / Oksana Lyniv (conductor). Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 29.7.2026. (MB)

Benjamin Bruns (Erik) and Elisabeth Teige (Senta) © BF/Enrico Nawrath

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Rienzi marches up Bayreuth’s Green Hill: political corruption and a hidden family secret blights lives

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GermanyGermany Bayreuth Festival 2026 [3] – Wagner, Rienzi: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra od the Bayreuth Festival / Nathalie Stutzmann (conductor). Livestreamed on STAGE+ (directed by Michael Beyer) from the Bayreuth Fespielehaus, 26.7.2026. (JPr)

Rienzi first scene © BF/Enrico Nawrath

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Clay Hilley’s singing and acting was the highlight of Pappano’s excellent Tristan und Isolde with his LSO

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, London Symphony Chorus (director: Mariana Rosas), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 12.7.2026. (JPr)

Gyula Orendt as Kurwenal and Clay Hilley as Tristan (1 July performance) © Mark Allan

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A review of NT’s compelling, if thought-provoking, Les Liaisons Dangereuses in cinemas from 25 June

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom NTLive’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (by Christopher Hampton based on the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos): Filmed (directed by Ollie Gardner) during its run at the Lyttelton Theatre at London’s Royal National Theatre and now in cinemas from 25 June. (JPr) ****

Lesley Manville (Marquise de Merteuil) and Aidan Turner  (Vicomte de Valmont) © Sarah Lee

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