Living at the Opera

From Seen and Heard International: Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) Pesaro (1) La Cenerentola: Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) Pesaro (2) – Sigismondo Rossini Opera Festival (ROF) Pesaro (3) – Demetrio e Polibio For more information about the Rossini Opera Festival please visit : Rossini Opera Festival.it

From Seen and Heard International By: Bernard Jacobson; Picture © Rozarii Lynch / Seattle Opera Seattle Opera, soloists, cond. Asher Fisch, dir. Peter Kazaras, set and costume designer Robert Israel, lighting designer Duane Schuler, chorus master Beth Kirchhoff, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, 31.7.2010 (BJ) Annalena Persson (Isolde) and Clifton Forbis (Tristan) Wagner’s Tristan und [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun; Picture © Bayerischen Staatsoper / Wilfried Hösl Soloists, Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper. Conductor: Marco Armiliato. Nationatheater, Munich 19. 7.2010. (JMI) Juha Uusitalo (Scarpia) and Karita Mattila (Tosca) What a great pleasure it is to attend Munich’s Summer Opera Festival year on year, one of [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Conductor: Michele Mariotti, Teatro Real de Madrid 29. 6.2010 (JMI) Teatro Real’s ‘Great Voices’ cycle comes to an end with this concert featuring two of Madrid’s most well loved singers. The concert raised great expectations, especially after Leo Nucci’s triumph in another [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: Harvey Steiman; Pictures © Cory Weaver Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, chorus and orchestra, Donald Runnicles, conductor. San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 22.6.2010 (HS) Valkyries parachuting down in aviatrix garb, warriors dressed in World War I uniforms, Wotan as a three-piece-suited captain of industry, and Valhalla [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: Harvey Steiman Soloists, chorus and orchestra of San Francisco Opera, Nicola Luisotti, conductor. War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, 9.6.2010 (HS) Deborah Voigt has proven herself formidable in Wagner roles such as Sieglinde in Die Walküre or Senta in Die Fliegende Hollander, and Strauss heroines such as the Prima [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun; Photo Courtesy of the Teatro Calderón de Valladolid © Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Latvian National Opera. Conductor: Pietro Rizzo. Teatro Calderón de Valladolid. 19.5.2010 (JMI) The Teatro Calderón brought Italian director Elena Barbalich’s Macbeth to Valladolid, three years after its premier in Lisbon. The production [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun; pictures © Javier del Real Soloists, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid. Coro Intermezzo. Conductor: Massimo Zanetti. Teatro Real de Madrid. 23. 5.2010. (JMI) There was a time when I was very disappointed when an opera belonging to the main repertoire was offered in concert version. With passing [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun Soloists, Orquesta y Coro Luis Mariano.Conductor: Nicola Giusti. Centro Cultural Amaia de Irún. 15.2010. (JMI) Production Asociación Lírica Luis Mariano in coproduction with Associazione Amici Della Musica di Cuneo and Pierres Lyriques en Verán des Gaves. The Luis Mariano Lyric Association takes its name from the [...]

From Seen and Heard International By: José M Irurzun; Picture © Javier del Real Soloists, Les Arts Florissants Conductor: William Christie. Teatro Real de Madrid. 18. 5.2010. (JMI) New production Teatro Real in coproduction with Venice’s Teatro de la Fenice. The Monteverdi trilogy, one of the recent star projects at Madrid’s Teatro Real, culminates with [...]