United Kingdom BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert – Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano): Livestreamed from the Wigmore Hall, London, 8.3.2021. (JPr)
Isata Kanneh-Mason’s bravura command celebrates International Women’s Day at the Wigmore Hall
Jim Pritchard
Pretty Yende and Juan Diego Flórez bring to life Simon Stone’s intriguingly staged, very well directed Vienna La traviata
Austria Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Giacomo Sagripanti (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Jakob Pitzer) from the Vienna State Opera, 7.3.2021. (JPr)
Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak explore a toxic relationship in Vienna’s 2018 Otello
Austria Verdi, Otello: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Graeme Jenkins (conductor). Performance filmed (directed by Jakob Pitzer) on 18.3.2018 and reviewed when streamed on 2.3.2021. (JPr)
For Met Stars Live in Concert, Sonya Yoncheva brings emotional significance to all her words and phrases
Germany Met Stars Live in Concert – Sonya Yoncheva (soprano): Julien Quentin (piano). Livestream (directed by Gary Halvorson) from Schussenried Cloister, Bad Schussenried, Germany, 27.2.2021. (JPr)
The Berlin Philharmonic recreates ‘The Golden Twenties’ of Moka Efti brilliantly in an evening of jazz and cabaret
Germany Weill, Wolpe, Seiber – ‘A night at the Moka Efti’: Dagmar Manzel (narrator/singer), Berlin Philharmonic / Michael Hasel (conductor). Performed at the Philharmonie Berlin and livestreamed via the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall, 23.2.2021. (GT)
Tony and the Young Artists: Stephanie Wake-Edwards will leave you shaken and stirred by her cocktail of cabaret songs
United Kingdom Tony and the Young Artists – Alexandra Lowe (soprano), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (mezzo-soprano), Filipe Manu (tenor) and Sir Antonio Pappano (piano): Livestream from the Crush Room, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 19.2.2021. (JPr)
and Stephanie Wake-Edwards (mezzo-soprano)
Rachvelishvili and Beczala lead an impressive Vienna ensemble as Bieito brings enhanced dramatic intent to Carmen
Austria Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Children of the Opera School, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor). Performed at the Vienna State Opera and livestreamed (directed by Karina Fibich) on 21.2.2021. (JPr)
As Radvanovsky hits new heights in Paris, Aida is not the museum piece Lotte de Beer thinks it is
France Verdi, Aida: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra national de Paris / Michele Mariotti (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Francois-René Martin) from Opéra Bastille, Paris, 18.2.2021. (JPr)
