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All that glitters! Zeffirelli’s Turandot returns to the Met as thoughts turn to Ukraine

08/09/202209/05/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United States The Met: Live in HD – Puccini, Turandot: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 7.5.2022. (JPr)

Front: Liudmyla Monastyrska (Turandot) and Yonghoon Lee (Calàf) (c) Ken Howard

The talented cast of The Play That Goes Wrong 2022 UK tour will have you laughing out loud

18/09/202406/05/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom The Play That Goes Wrong: Southend Cliffs Pavilion, Essex, 3.5.2022. (JPr)

Colin Burnicle as Chris Bean © Robert Day

Dorothea Röschmann helps illuminate song at the 11th Leeds Lieder Festival

08/09/202202/05/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom 11th Leeds Lieder Festival Opening Gala Recital: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano) and Joseph Middleton (piano). Livestreamed (and now available on YouTube) from Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, 28.4.2022. (JPr)

Calixto Bieito’s Vienna Tristan is Wagner, Richard, but not as we know it!

30/04/202229/04/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Austria Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Anna Gettel) from Vienna State Opera, 27.4.2022. (JPr)

Andreas Schager (Tristan) and Martina Serafin (Isolde) © Michael Pöhn

Theatrical excess spoils an otherwise well-sung and played Der fliegende Holländer in Mannheim

27/04/202227/04/2022 by Jim Pritchard

Germany Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Nationaltheater Mannheim / Jordan de Souza (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Florian Breuer) on 24.4.2022 from the Nationaltheater Mannheim (available on YouTube and OperaVision until 24.10.2022). (JPr)

Delphina Parenti (Dream Senta), Michael Bronczkowski (Dream Dutchman) and Daniela Köhler (Senta) (c) Christian Kleiner

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All that glitters! Zeffirelli’s Turandot returns to the Met as thoughts turn to Ukraine

The talented cast of The Play That Goes Wrong 2022 UK tour will have you laughing out loud

Dorothea Röschmann helps illuminate song at the 11th Leeds Lieder Festival

Calixto Bieito’s Vienna Tristan is Wagner, Richard, but not as we know it!

Theatrical excess spoils an otherwise well-sung and played Der fliegende Holländer in Mannheim

Lisette Oropesa seems unsurpassable in a strongly sung revival of Lucia di Lammermoor in Vienna

With a voice largely untouched by time Renée Fleming leaves her adoring London audience wanting more

Thoughts for today but going back in time with Otto Schenk’s vintage Der Rosenkavalier at Vienna State Opera