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DublinBritten’s War Requiem
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland; Anja Bihlmaier; Ailish Tynan; Laurence Kilsby; Joshua Hopkins; National Symphony Chorus Ireland
TurinCavalleria rusticana / PagliacciNeuinszenierung
Mascagni, Leoncavallo
Andrea Battistoni; Daniele Menghini; Teatro Regio di Torino; Davide Signorini; Nika Campisi; Gianni Bertoli; Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino
TorontoMessiah
Händel: Messias
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Ivor Bolton; Louise Alder; Deepa Johnny; Paul Appleby; Joshua Hopkins
TorontoL'elisir d'amore
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Lorenzo Passerini; James Robinson; Canadian Opera Company; Allen Moyer; Martin Pakledinaz; Paul Palazzo; Canadian Opera Company Orchestra
TorontoMahler’s Eighth
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 8 in Es-Dur 'Symphonie der Tausend'
Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Gustavo Gimeno; Elisabeth Teige; Sarah Wegener; Sarah Dufresne; Karen Cargill
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Glänzendes Met-Debüt von Joana Mallwitz
Eine aufstrebende deutsche Dirigentin entlockt dem Orchester in der fünften Wiederaufnahme der witzigen Inszenierung von Richard Eyre aus dem Jahr 2014 an der Met ein hervorragendes Spiel.
Bihlmaier’s Boulanger and Brahms have moments of beauty and restraint
Anja Bihlmaier draws committed playing from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in a choral programme including Brahms’ German Requiem with the Audi Jugendchorakademie.
Songs of love and loss from the Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin pairs Mahler's weighty Ninth Symphony with Jake Heggie's Songs for Murdered Sisters, which considers the scourge of domestic violence against women.
Mendelssohn Choir shines in Pittsburgh Symphony’s choral program
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony perform five diverse works, culminating in an affecting reading of Fauré’s pensive Requiem.
Malin Byström stars in a radiant Capriccio to close the EIF
Capriccio proves a fitting end to the Philharmonia’s EIF residency, with Alexander Soddy conducting a fine cast headed by Swedish soprano Malin Byström.
Madcap comedy from Verdi: Un giorno di regno at Garsington
Christopher Alden, Chris Hopkins and an excellent cast send us a comic roller coaster ride with Verdi’s ultra-rarely performed second opera.