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...
Sir Antonio Pappano records Puccini’s Turandot for Warner Classics – with Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho and Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Sir Antonio Pappano records Puccini’s Turandot for Warner Classics – with Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho and Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Mar 12, 2023 | Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews

This tremendous Turandot is superbly conducted, played, sung, and recorded (well-judged balance, depth of perspective, clarity, unstinting impact). It also has a USP: the “first complete recording with the original Alfano ending” (Puccini died with the...