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RotterdamSt Matthew Passion 2023
Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Peter Dijkstra; Jeanine De Bique; Maarten Engeltjes; Maximilian Schmitt; Fabio Trümpy
Aix-en-ProvenceWagner: Le Vaisseau fantôme
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
François-Xavier Roth; Gürzenich Orchestra; Chor der Oper Köln; James Rutherford; Ingela Brimberg
KlostersThe Creation
Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung), Hob XXI:2
Giovanni Antonini; Nikola Hillebrand; Maximilian Schmitt; Florian Boesch; Basel Chamber Orchestra
Saanen“The Creation” – Humility & Faith II
Haydn: The Creation (Die Schöpfung), Hob XXI:2
Giovanni Antonini; Nikola Hillebrand; Maximilian Schmitt; Florian Boesch; Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir
BucharestIl Giardino Armonico / NFM Choir / Giovanni Antonini
Haydn: The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten) Hob XXI:3
Il Giardino Armonico; Giovanni Antonini; NFM Choir; Maximilian Schmitt; Florian Boesch
CologneDer fliegende HolländerNew production
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
François-Xavier Roth; Benjamin Lazar; Oper Köln; Adeline Caron; Andreas Grüter; Gürzenich Orchestra
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RomeFidelio (concert performance)
Beethoven: Fidelio
Sir Antonio Pappano; Rachel Willis-Sørensen; Simon O'Neill; Sebastian Holecek; Günther Groissböck
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Cleveland Orchestra's The Seasons proves successful despite cancellations
Illness caused two baritones to bow out, plus an indisposed tenor on the night of the first performance. But soprano Golda Schultz, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Orchestra, led by Franz Welser-Möst, ultimately revelled in Haydn’s late masterpiece.
A boon for Beethoven buffs in Vienna
Beethoven lovers were expecting an authentic recreation of the first version of Fidelio but instead they got Leonore à la Jacobs.
Brett Dean meets Beethoven: The new Tonhalle Maag’s first concert this season
This wasn’t just any concert. The Zurich Tonhalle’s new season was opening in a brand new hall in the trendy Züri-West quarter of the city.
La Currentzis di Tito: a Mozartian mishap in Wrocław
Mozart was supposed to be the composer of La clemenza di Tito but it was really a critical edition of Metastasio’s opus by Teodor Currentzis.
Strehler's dreamy Entführung returns to La Scala
Zubin Mehta brings a great deal of class to most things he conducts at La Scala, and here his bright account of Mozart's score was a joy.
In Cleveland, a politically fraught St John Passion
A high-minded approach to Bach's masterpiece is undercut by an uneven performance.