Die Münchner Residenz Solisten ließen bei ihrem Neujahrskonzert in kammermusikalischen Arrangements bekannter Klassik sinfonischen Orchesterklang kaum vermissen.
Àlex Ollé und sein Fura dels Baus-Team bringen eine optisch spektakuläre Norma auf die Bühne, die erste Covent Garden-Neuproduktion von Bellinis Oper in fast 30 Jahren.
Jürgen Roses Regiekonzept für die Bayerische Staatsoper polarisierte bereits bei der Premiere vor zehn Jahren, doch eine bemerkenswerte Norma lässt alles andere vergessen.
Isabella Steppan berichtet von einem Potpourri aus Gewesenem, Überraschungen und Abschieden unter der Leitung von gleich zwei Dirigenten bei der Gala anlässlich des Endes der Intendanz Elisabeth Sobotkas.
Agnessa Nefjodov verwandelt das Landestheater für einen Abend in ein kleines italienisches Dorf, in dem das große Drama bis ins kleinste Detail gelebt und von Solisten bis hin zum letzten Chormitglied Spitzenleistung gezeigt wird.
Le Centre Lyrique Clermont Auvergne fête vingt années de passion et de combats pour faire vivre l'opéra et la musique en région. Et il ouvre la voix à plus d'un talent...
Seven years after their production was voted as “production of the year” at Oper Stuttgart, Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito's La sonnambula opens in Berlin.
While Bellini’s two-act opera Norma underscores the religious wars between the ancient Druids and Romans, it also highlights an emotive personal conflict that is veiled in deceit and cultural discrepancy.
Dans le cadre des récitals « Grandes Voix » du Centre lyrique Clermont-Auvergne, la soprano sud-africaine Pretty Yende s’est livrée le 20 décembre à un exercice de haute précision vocale.
Top tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres dared to duel at the Concertgebouw. Both emerged victorious, and not just because of the volley of sensational top notes.
I puritani returns to Barcelona’s Liceu with Annilese Miskimmon’s production. Javier Camerena and Pretty Yende lead the inauguration of the season with a fine example of romantic bel canto.
The Rotterdam Philharmonic marked their centenary with two concerts starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. A bittersweet weekend, during which they also took leave of their beloved principal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The first staging of Bellini's Norma in Oslo in over a century is unfortunately hampered by an irritating production, yet some glorious singing does much to rescue the show.
L’Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie ouvre sa saison lyrique avec Norma. Musicalement intéressante, cette production souffre néanmoins d'une mise en scène qui rencontre quelques limites dans son ambition.
Under Will Crutchfield’s direction the festival has focused on the rediscovery of forgotten 19th-century Italian works and celebrates the legacy of the bel canto era.
Alexandra Deshorties peine à convaincre vocalement, la mise en scène de Jossi Wieler et Sergio Morabito venant par ailleurs crucifier sur l’autel du gris infini l’opéra de Bellini.
Not only was the production devoid of Druids or Romans, it turned Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece into an implausible, trite, contemporary crypto-Che Guevara misadventure.
Ivan Magrì's exemplary technique and strong delivery in his London recital debut left his audience hoping for a return visit to the Rosenblatt series in the imminent future.
For her London recital debut, Sondra Radvanovsky offered a varied programme of ranging from Bellini to Barber, showing off the technique with which she has dazzled American audiences.
As it turned out, the second performance of the Met’s revival of I puritani was the one to see – it offered some of this season’s greatest singing – and a surprise.
For such a young conductor of unassuming stature, Gamba exudes surprising authority, bringing off players with a swipe and reaching out far from the pit to coordinate distant chorus members.
Andreas Homoki’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I puritani wows with a quartet of stellar vocalists, but its awkward staging and set design are a distinct disappointment.
