Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E flat (1823); Scherzo from Four Pieces Op.81; String Quartet in E minor Op.44 No.2 plus to follow Mendelssohn Roundtable, with Consone Quartet & Laura Tunbridge The blurb of the Consone Quartet’s web site says that they are the ‘first period instrument string quartet to be selected as BBC New GenerationContinue reading “MITR – Consone Quartet, Mendelssohn. St Matthew’s, Carver St, Sheffield. 26/10/24”
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Beethoven, Fidelio. ROHCG. 16/10/24
Director, Tobias Kratzer; Designer, Rainer Sellmaier; Lighting designer, Michael Bauer; Video designer, Manuel Braun. Conductor, Alexander Soddy. Cast – Leonore, Jennifer Davis; Florestan, Eric Cutler; Rocco, Peter Rose; Marzelline, Christina Gansch; Jaquino, Michael Gibson; Don Pizarro, Jochen Schmeckenbecher; Don Fernando, Phillip Rhodes I saw this production on BBC TV during lockdown – it had beenContinue reading “Beethoven, Fidelio. ROHCG. 16/10/24”
Britten, The Turn of the Screw. ENO London Coliseum, 11/10/24
Director and Designer – Isabella Bywater; Lighting Designer – Paul Anderson; Ailish Tynan, Governess; Miss Jessel, Eleanor Dennis; Peter Quint, Robert Murray. Holly Hylton, Flora; Nicolai Flutter, Miles; Alan Oke, Prologue; Gweneth Ann Rand, Mrs Grose. Conductor, Duncan Ward. I have only seen one live performance of this work – a production for the BuxtonContinue reading “Britten, The Turn of the Screw. ENO London Coliseum, 11/10/24 “
Welsh National Opera – Puccini, Il Trittico: Cardiff 3/10/24
Cast: Dario Solari, Michele/Gianni Schicchi; Natalya Romaniw – Giorgetta | Sister Angelica; Haegee Lee – Young Lover | Sister Genovieffa | Lauretta; Trystan Llŷr Griffiths – Young Lover | Rinuccio; Anne Mason – The Princess | Zita; Sioned Gwen Davies – The Abbess & La Ciesca; Mark Le BrocqIl – Tinca | Gherardo; Wojtek GierlachIlContinue reading “Welsh National Opera – Puccini, Il Trittico: Cardiff 3/10/24”
Halle Orchestra, Wong – Britten and Mahler: Bridgewater Hall, 26/9/24
Britten The Prince of the Pagodas: Suite arranged by Colin Matthews and Kahchun Wong; Mahler Symphony No 1 ‘Titan’; Kahchun Wong conductor, Halle Orchestra Kahchun Wong is Singaporean, aged 38 and has been chief conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic, and now the Halle, as well as being principal guest conductor ofContinue reading “Halle Orchestra, Wong – Britten and Mahler: Bridgewater Hall, 26/9/24”
Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin. Dress Rehearsal, ROHCG; 20/9/24
Director, Ted Huffman; Set Designer, Hyemi Shin; Costume Designer, Astrid Klein; Lighting Designer, D. M. Wood. Conductor, Henrik Nánási. Eugene Onegin, Gordon Bintner; Tatyana, Kristina Mkhitaryan; Lensky, Liparit Avetisyan; Olga, Avery Amereau; Prince Gremin, Dmitry Belosselskiy (replaced by Brindley Sherrat); Madame Larina, Alison Kettlewell; Filipyevna, Rhonda Browne; Monsieur Triquet, Christophe Mortagne In 1969 I wentContinue reading “Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin. Dress Rehearsal, ROHCG; 20/9/24”
Mozart, Marriage of Figaro: Live screening from ROHCG at Sheffield Odeon. 10/9/24
Director, David McVicar; Designer, Tanya Mccallin; Lighting Designer, Paule Constable; Figaro, Luca Micheletti; Susanna, Siobhan Stagg (replacing Ying Fang); Count Almaviva, Huw Montague Rendall; Countess Almaviva, Maria Bengtsson; Cherubino, Ginger Costa-Jackson; Bartolo, Peter Kálmán; Marcellina, Rebecca Evans; Don Basilio, Adrian Thompson; Antonio, Jeremy White; Don Curzio, Alasdair Elliott; Barbarina, Isabela Díaz. Conductor, Julia Jones IContinue reading “Mozart, Marriage of Figaro: Live screening from ROHCG at Sheffield Odeon. 10/9/24”
BBC Proms: Prom 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Rattle, RAH, 6/9/24
Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, conductor A bit like my wish to step away from live Bruckner performances for a while, I resolved on the same course of action with Mahler after the Leipzig Mahler Festival last year, which ended, as it happens, with a veryContinue reading “BBC Proms: Prom 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Rattle, RAH, 6/9/24”
BBC Proms: Prom 61: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rattle, RAH, – 5/9/24
Thomas Adès, Aquifer; Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, ‘Romantic’. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, conductor After 4 days I am still walking around with themes from Bruckner 5 in my ears after the magnificent Berlin performance, so it is a bit of an adjustment to suddenly move to Bruckner 4.Continue reading “BBC Proms: Prom 61: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rattle, RAH, – 5/9/24”
BBC Proms: Prom 56: Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko. RAH, 1/9/24
Bruckner, Motets: Os justi; Locus iste; Christus factus est; Symphony No. 5 in B flat major. BBC Singers, Owain Park, conductor. Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, conductor After the magnificent Bruckner 5 from Thielemann and the Berlin Staatskapelle in Berlin last November, I wondered how I would feel about a very different sort of conductor interpretingContinue reading “BBC Proms: Prom 56: Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko. RAH, 1/9/24”
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