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Italianità outside our traditional comfort zone: Roberto Devereux at Zurich Opera

05/06/202309/02/2023 by Michael Fischer

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Donizetti, Roberto Devereux: Soloists, Chorus of Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Enrique Mazzola (conductor). Zurich Opera, 4.2.2023. (MF)

Inga Kalna (Elizabeth I) © Toni Suter

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Blomstedt conducts the Tonhalle in a remarkable performance of Schubert and Berwald

02/03/202312/12/2022 by Valérie Litz

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Schubert, Berwald: Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich / Herbert Blomstedt (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 7.12.2022. (VL)

Herbert Blomstedt (c) Frederic Meyer

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Sex, lies and videos – Calixto Bieito’s Eliogabalo at Zurich opera

02/03/202306/12/2022 by Michael Fischer

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Cavalli, Eliogabalo: Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla / Dmitry Sinkovsky (conductor). Zurich Opera, 4.12.2022. (MF)

Zurich Opera’s Eliogabalo © Monika Rittershaus

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Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz in Zurich: madness at its finest

29/11/202228/11/2022 by Michael Fischer

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rihm, Jakob Lenz: Soloists, Zürcher Kammerorchester / Adrian Kelly (conductor). Zurich Opera, 26.10.2022. (MF)

Jonas Jud (Oberlin), Yannick Debus (Lenz), Maximilian Lawrie (Kaufmann) © Toni Suter

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Gemischter Chor with a touching Dvořák Stabat Mater

27/11/2022 by Valérie Litz

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Dvořák: Der Gemischte Chor Zürich, Michaela Kaune (soprano), Martina Dike (mezzo soprano), Peter Sonn (tenor), Tobias Schabel (Bass), Basel Sinfonietta / Joachim Krause (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 23.11.2022. (VL)

Der Gemischte Chor Zürich previously at Tonhalle Zürich © Tobias Sutter

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Royal Concertgebouw in Switzerland: renowned mellow sound and character in regulation repertoire

30/12/202217/11/2022 by John Rhodes

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brahms, Beethoven: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Daniel Harding (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 15.11.2022. (JR)

Daniel Harding conducts the RCO recently in London © Mark Allan

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Paavo Järvi ‘s fine Bruckner cycle continues with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich

07/02/202507/11/2022 by John Rhodes

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Messaien, Bernstein, Bruckner: Janine Jansen (violin), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 5.11.2022. (JR)

Janine Jansen © Marco Borggreve

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Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich in quality performances of Pärt, Beethoven and Bruckner

30/10/2022 by Valérie Litz

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Pärt, Beethoven, Bruckner: Rudolf Buchbinder (piano), Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich / Paavo Järvi (conductor). Tonhalle, Zurich, 27.10.2022. (VL)

Rudolf Buchbinder

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