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English National Opera at Fairfield Halls – Martyn Brabbins conducts Puccini’s La bohème.

Aug 22, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Sunday, August 21, 2022 Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed Filling a post-lockdown relaxation in 2020, English National Opera mounted a socially-distanced drive-in staging of La bohème in a car-park at Alexandra Palace in north...

BBC Proms 2022 – Prom 19: The Hallé & Mark Elder play Dukas’s Sorcerer, Respighi’s Fountains, and Puccini’s Il tabarro [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 30, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Saturday, July 30, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London The concert opened with Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, nicely atmospheric, then with witty bassoons spiriting off a Hallé performance of vitality and ever-increasing characterisation...

BBC Proms 2022 – Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers – from Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducted by Robin Ticciati [live BBC Radio 3 broadcast].

Jul 24, 2022 | BBC Proms 2022, Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, July 24, 2022 Royal Albert Hall, London If needed, some background to The Wreckers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreckers_(opera) Also if needed, the synopsis:...

Glyndebourne Festival 2022 – Opening Night of Handel’s Alcina – Jane Archibald, Beth Taylor, Soraya Mafi; directed by Francesco Micheli; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Jonathan Cohen.

Jul 4, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews

© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Tristram Kenton Saturday, July 2, 2022 Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Lewes, East Sussex, England Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Alcina (1735) is one of Handel’s most magical operas – not simply because it is one of a handful...

Royal College of Music – Jonathan Dove’s Flight.

Jul 1, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, June 30, 2022 Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Sometimes Life does seem to imitate Art. Jonathan Dove’s Flight (commissioned by Glyndebourne and premiered in 1998) may be based on real...

Opera Rara – Mercadante’s Il proscritto – Ramón Vargas, Iván Ayón-Rivas, Irene Roberts & Elizabeth DeShong; Britten Sinfonia conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Jun 29, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Photo, Russell Duncan Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers For its latest offering (in this performance and a studio recording to be released soon) Opera Rara has raided the archives to rescue a long-forgotten work from obscurity....