United Kingdom Wagner, Götterdämmerung (concert performance): Soloists, Saffron Opera Group Chorus and Orchestra / Michael Thorne (conductor). Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, Essex, 17.9.2017. (JPr)
Jim Pritchard
Fireworks Aplenty from Kasper Holten and Es Devlin’s Spectacular Bregenz Carmen
Austria Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Children’s choir of Musikmittelschule Bregenz-Stadt, Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Paolo Carignani (conductor). Recorded at the 2017 Bregenz Festival and shown at Cineworld Basildon, 14.9.2017. (JPr)
There is Much to Admire in Richard Jones’s New La bohème for the Royal Opera
United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 10.9.2017. (JPr)
Promenaders Out in Force for a Vienna Philharmonic Mahler Six Which Lacks Impact
United Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 72 – Mahler: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 7.9.2017. (JPr)
Magisterial Thielemann and Exciting Petra Lang Make the 2017 Bayreuth Tristan Something to Remember
United Kingdom Bayreuth Festival 2017 [3] Wagner, Tristan und Isolde: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Christian Thielemann (conductor), Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 16.8.2017. (JPr)
(c) Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath
Barrie Kosky Brings Typical Madcap Mayhem to his Thought-Provoking Bayreuth Meistersinger
Germany Bayreuth Festival 2017 [2] – Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Philippe Jordan (conductor), Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 15.8.2017. (JPr)
(c) Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath
Hartmut Haenchen’s 2017 Bayreuth Parsifal Gains in Tension, Spirituality and Reverence
Germany Bayreuth Festival 2017 [1] -Wagner, Parsifal: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Hartmut Haenchen (conductor). Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 14.8.2017. (JPr)
© Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath
A Memorable Prom as Semyon Bychkov Conducts a Wonderfully Sung Khovanshchina
United Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 29 – Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina (orch. Dmitry Shostakovich): Soloists, Schola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Tiffin Boys’ Choir, BBC Singers, Slovak Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra / Semyon Bychkov (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 6.8.2017. (JPr)
