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Bachtrack Newsletter | 16 April 2021
Welcome to our weekly newsletter with recommendations for streamed concerts, opera and dance. Bachtrack continues to be your trusty guide to live events still happening, as well as a portal to online performances with our library of over 1,000 “live-streamed” or “on demand” events. We publish reviews covering the best of both worlds.
Top Ten: Operatic drinking songs
Pub gardens have reopened in the UK this week, so raise a glass or two to celebrate... but, unlike Turiddu, please stay socially distanced!
Enjoy listening to Mark and Elisabeth's playlist of favourite drinking songs. Cheers!
New from around the world
Amsterdam
As audiences return to the Concertgebouw (in a pilot project), Víkingur Ólafsson plays Mozart
Munich
Christian Thielemann conducts the Bavarian RSO in Anton Bruckner's Fifth Symphony
London
Mahan Esfahani plays Bach in his Wigmore Hall recital, Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier
London
Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver include Prokofiev and Stravinsky in their Wigmore recital
Stockholm
Andris Poga looks to Latvia and Russia for his concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Basel
Giovanni Antonini continues his Haydn2032 voyage with a trio of fiery symphonies
Opera is back!
After a summer bereft of live opera performances in 2020, dozens of UK companies and festivals are planning their return to action. Here's David Karlin's whistle-stop tour of what's coming.
Recommended Opera
Parsifal
Wiener Staatsoper
Kirill Serebrennikov directs a new staging; the star-studded cast includes Jonas Kaufmann and Elīna Garanča
Pelléas et Mélisande
Teatro Regio di Parma
A new production of Debussy's enigmatic opera in Parma by the directing duo of Barbe and Doucet
Romeo und Julia
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
A very rare opportunity to see this 1943 chamber opera by Boris Blacher based on Shakespeare's tragedy
Luisa Miller
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Michele Mariotti conducts a concert performance with Roberta Mantegna in the title role
G is for Groupie
How to find inspiration? In this month's column, Pierre Liscia-Beaurenaut explores the world of vibrato and shares his journey following in the footsteps of the great masters of the past, including Itzhak Perlman, Arthur Grumiaux and Christian Ferras.
Recommended Dance
Der Schneesturm
Bayerisches Staatsballett
Resident choreographer Andrey Kaydanovskiy turns to Pushkin's story The Snowstorm for his new creation
E una sera... Chopin
Ballo del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
A Poet seeking the ideal of love is at the centre of Giorgio Mancini's new creation, featuring Chopin's piano music
Romeo and Juliet
Polish National Ballet
Krzysztof Pastor relocates the action of Prokofiev's Shakespearean ballet to the Italy of the 1930s, 1950s and 1990s
The Dying Swans Project
Gauthier Dance
16 choreographers, 16 dancers, 16 new solos as Eric Gauthier gives his company of "dying swans" an artistic challenge
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Photography credits:
Playlist, Cavalleria rusticana © ROH | Catherine Ashmore; Víkingur Ólafsson © Ari Magg, Lisette Oropesa © Jason Homa, Christian Thielemann © Matthias Creutziger | Staatskapelle Dresden, Mahan Esfahani © Kaja Smith, Andreas Ottensamer © Dan Carabas, Chorus of Dutch National Opera and Ching-Lien Wu © Nico Alsemgeest, Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver © Kaupo Kikkas, Andris Poga © Jean Philippe Raibaud, Giovanni Antonini © Marco Borggreve; Opera festivals, Nevill Holt Theatre © NHO | Gary Summers; Parsifal © Michael Pöhn | Wiener Staatsoper GmbH, Romeo und Julia © Hans Jörg Michel | Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Pelléas et Mélisande © Teatro Regio di Parma, Luisa Miller © Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Der Schneesturm © Bayerisches Staatsballett, E uns sera... Chopin © Fabrizio Sansoni | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Romeo and Juliet © Marta Wódz, The Dying Swans Project © Jeanette Bak; Rambert © Camilla Greenwell, NYCB © Erin Baiano, Orchestre Métropolitain © Antoine Saito
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