Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles]

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles]

Jan 15, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Asmik Grigorian takes the role of Iolanta Saturday, January 15, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Exceptionally this season, the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko have programmed three Tchaikovsky operas. Mazeppa was first up,...
First-night review: English National Opera presents The Valkyrie [Die Walküre, Part Two of Wagner’s Ring Cycle tetralogy] – directed by Richard Jones; conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

First-night review: English National Opera presents The Valkyrie [Die Walküre, Part Two of Wagner’s Ring Cycle tetralogy] – directed by Richard Jones; conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Nov 20, 2021 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews

Photograph, Tristram Kenton Friday, November 19, 2021 The Coliseum, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed Whatever you may have thought about Richard Jones’s Wagner productions – in the UK, for example, the Royal Opera Ring Cycle in the 1990s and The Mastersingers for...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles]

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles]

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

Delacroix’s Mazeppa on the Dying Horse (1824) Sunday, November 14, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin The Berlin Philharmonic has been residing in Baden-Baden for a week or so, including two concert performances of Tchaikovsky’s...