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Bachtrack Newsletter | 26 November 2021
Welcome to our weekly newsletter with recommendations for streamed concerts, opera and dance. Bachtrack continues to be your trusty guide to live events, and our database contains thousands of events. We are also your portal to online performances with our library of “live-streamed” or “on demand” events. Our reviews focus on live events. As we head into Advent, keep an eye out for a festive surprise or two in coming newsletters...
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Christmas in Barcelona
“Being in Barcelona at Christmas is to live an outstanding experience that is impossible to forget.” Aina Vega Rofes takes you on a festive tour of the city, from the Ramblas to the bustling city centre via the cathedral, including food and music tips.
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Christmas Box-Set
The National Centre for Early Music offers a bumper Box Set of festive streams from their Christmas Festival, from The Gesualdo Six and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Battaglia! and Siglo de Oro.
New from around the world
Munich
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mahler's Ninth in this year's Bavarian RSO benefit concert
Paris
Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy from Cristian Măcelaru and the Orchestre National de France
New on Bachtrack
London
A deeply fascinating lecture recital by Sir András Schiff on Schubert's final sonata
São Paulo
Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky from Marin Alsop, Gabriela Montero and the OSESP
Live is back – book now!
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Zingari
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Rara
Leoncavallo’s one-act opera is performed as it was premiered 100 years ago with a fine cast conducted by Carlo Rizzi
Advent surprise
As the temperature drops in the northern hemisphere, a seasonal dip into some repertoire that plunges you into frozen landscapes and wintry mythology. Pull your boots on and wrap up warm!
Recommended Opera
Il barbiere di Siviglia
Wiener Staatsoper
Don't miss Juan Diego Flórez, Étienne Dupuis and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya in the Staatsoper's new Barbiere
Osud (Destiny)
National Theatre Brno
Robert Carsen directs this Janáček rarity in which tragedy strikes the lives of a young composer and his wife
Le nozze di Figaro
Opera Philadelphia
Brandon Cedel's Figaro does not look amused by the situation in Stephen Lawless' witty production
The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko
Grange Park Opera
Anthony Bolton's unashamed polemic against the Putin regime
Recommended Dance
Don Quixote
Wiener Staatsballett
With Austria in lockdown, nightly archive streams have resumed. Enjoy Rudolf Nureyev's classic Don Q production
Akram Khan’s Giselle
English National Ballet
Tamara Rojo dances Giselle in Akram Khan's mesmerising reimagining of the classic ballet for the 21st century
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Photography credits:
Christmas in Barcelona © Turisme de Barcelona | Ludivine Bastien;
Sir Simon Rattle © Jim Rakete, Ryan Wigglesworth © Benjamin Ealovega, Cristian Măcelaru © Adriane White, Sir András Schiff © Wigmore Hall, Marin Alsop © Adriane White, DSO Berlin © Peter Adamik;
Osud © Marek Olbrzymek | National Theatre Brno, Il barbiere di Siviglia © Michael Pöhn | Wiener Staatsoper GmbH, Le nozze di Figaro © Kelly & Massa | Opera Philadelphia, The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko © Marc Brenner | Grange Park Opera;
Don Quixote © Michael Pöhn | Wiener Staatsoper GmbH, Giselle © Laurent Liotardo | English National Ballet;
Sara Blanch (La Fille du régiment) © Gianfranco Rota, Rachel Nicholls and Matthew Rose (The Valkyrie) © Tristram Kenton, Barbara Zechmeister and Liviu Holender (Maskarade) © Monika Rittershaus, Robyn Hendricks and Callum Linnane © Daniel Boud, Ruxandra Donose and Clive Bayley (Julius Caesar) © Fabrizio Sansoni | Opera di Roma, Per Arne Glorvigen, Kremerata Baltica © Petra Hajská, Pavel Kolesnikov © Shoel Stadlen | Britten Pears Arts, Thomas Adès, Víkingur Ólafsson, Iceland Symphony Orchestra © Hari, Klaus Mäkelä © Mathias Benguigui | Pasco and Co
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