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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! 

► Listen to playlist
 

New from around the world

 

Amsterdam
As audiences return to the Concertgebouw (in a pilot project), Víkingur Ólafsson plays Mozart

► Live 16 Apr
 

Rome
Lisette Oropesa joins Xabier Anduaga and Antonio Pappano for a bel canto gala

► Live 16 Apr
 

Munich
Christian Thielemann conducts the Bavarian RSO in Anton Bruckner's Fifth Symphony 

► Live 16 Apr
 

London
Mahan Esfahani plays Bach in his Wigmore Hall recital, Book 1 of The Well-Tempered Clavier

► Live 20 Apr
 

Poole
Andreas Ottensamer makes his UK conducting debut with Mendelssohn and Mozart

► On 21 Apr
 

Amsterdam
The Chorus of Dutch National Opera performs Johannes Brahms' German Requiem

► Live 22 Apr
 

London
Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver include Prokofiev and Stravinsky in their Wigmore recital

► Live 19 Apr
 

Stockholm
Andris Poga looks to Latvia and Russia for his concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic

► From 22 Apr
 

Basel
Giovanni Antonini continues his Haydn2032 voyage with a trio of fiery symphonies 

► Live 17 Apr
 
 

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.

► Read article
 

Recommended Opera

 

Parsifal
Wiener Staatsoper
Kirill Serebrennikov directs a new staging; the star-studded cast includes Jonas Kaufmann and Elīna Garanča

► From 18 April
 

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

► Live 22 April
 

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

► From 17 April
 

Luisa Miller
Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Michele Mariotti conducts a concert performance with Roberta Mantegna in the title role

► Live 20 and 21 April
 
 

 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. 

► Read article
 

Recommended Dance

 

Der Schneesturm
Bayerisches Staatsballett

Resident choreographer Andrey Kaydanovskiy turns to Pushkin's story The Snowstorm for his new creation

► Live 17 April
 

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

► Live 16 April
 

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

► From 16 April
 

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

► From 16 April
 

Latest reviews

 

London
Behind closed doors: Rambert premieres Jo Strømgren's Rooms

► Read review
 

New York
Kyle Abraham's When We Fell: a pandemic premiere at NYCB

► Read review
 

Montréal
Nézet-Séguin: from piano to podium with the Orchestre Métropolitain

► Read review
 

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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Stay safe and enjoy our streaming recommendations. 

Mark Pullinger, Elisabeth Schwarz, David and Alison Karlin

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