Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Arnaud Arbet conducts Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.

Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Arnaud Arbet conducts Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.

Sep 17, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

György Ligeti (1923-2006) Sunday, September 17, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest Not many operas begin with a car-horn consort, but Ligeti’s wacky, weird and wonderful Le Grand Macabre does, a prelude to a surreal score that keeps the ear guessing and...
Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Hannu Lintu conducts Britten’s Billy Budd. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Hannu Lintu conducts Britten’s Billy Budd. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 12, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania These few words are merely a means of documenting one of the absolute highlights of the Enescu Festival 2023 (whatever happens next), a concert performance of Benjamin Britten’s...
George Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestra & Choir of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Zubin Mehta conducts Verdi’s Otello, with Fabio Sartori, Anastasia Bartoli and Luca Salsi. Live stream on the Enescu Festival website and also live on Radio România Cultural.

George Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestra & Choir of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Zubin Mehta conducts Verdi’s Otello, with Fabio Sartori, Anastasia Bartoli and Luca Salsi. Live stream on the Enescu Festival website and also live on Radio România Cultural.

Aug 28, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Monday, August 28, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania In the first of their two appearances at this year’s Enescu Festival (the second is tomorrow, Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony) Zubin Mehta conducted Maggio...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 43: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the UK premiere of György Kurtág’s Fin de partie, to a French libretto based on Samuel Beckett’s eponymous play (Endgame). Live on BBC Radio 3.

BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 43: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Ryan Wigglesworth conducts the UK premiere of György Kurtág’s Fin de partie, to a French libretto based on Samuel Beckett’s eponymous play (Endgame). Live on BBC Radio 3.

Aug 17, 2023 | BBC Proms 2023, Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Sisi Burn Thursday, August 17, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Commissioned by and premiered at La Scala on November 15, 2018, conducted by Markus Stenz (some pre-performance articles at the time cited Ingo Metzmacher as the maestro; Pierre Audi directed), the...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. “Can one base one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others? The emperor’s wife needs a shadow to save her husband from turning to stone and to have children, so she must buy the shadow and fertility of a poor dyer’s wife.” Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. “Can one base one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others? The emperor’s wife needs a shadow to save her husband from turning to stone and to have children, so she must buy the shadow and fertility of a poor dyer’s wife.” Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Apr 14, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Friday, April 14, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin The Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko have been in Baden-Baden for concerts (also involving Daniel Harding and Emmanuelle Haïm) and several staged performances of Die Frau ohne...