Performer: Nicholas Brownlee

BarcelonaDas Rheingold

Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, 2027 Feb 07, 10, 13, 15, 18, 21

Wagner: Das Rheingold

Jonathan Nott; Tobias Kratzer; Gran Teatre del Liceu; Rainer Sellmaier; Michael Bauer; Orquesta Sinfónica del Gran Teatre del Liceu

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Konzerthalle Bamberg: Joseph Keilberth Saal, Sun 23 May at 17:00

Beethoven

Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrůša; Louise Alder; Thomas Atkins; Jingwen Cai; Nicholas Brownlee

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Municipal House: Smetana Hall, Tue 25 May at 20:00

Beethoven

Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrůša; Louise Alder; Thomas Atkins; Jingwen Cai; Nicholas Brownlee

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Kölner Philharmonie, Mon 31 May at 20:00

Beethoven

Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrůša; Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno; Louise Alder; Jingwen Cai; Thomas Atkins

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Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Sun 6 Jun at 19:30

Beethoven

Bamberg Symphony; Jakub Hrůša; Louise Alder; Thomas Atkins; Jingwen Cai; Nicholas Brownlee

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Municipal House: Smetana Hall, Tue 22 Jun at 19:30

Wagner

Prague Philharmonia; Emmanuel Villaume; Nicholas Brownlee; Jennifer Feinstein

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BBCSSO in Edinburgh: Mahlerian melodrama, Schubertian shadow

Simon Thompson, 27 Aug

The Edinburgh International Festival roll out their A-team for Mahler's early Das Klagende Lied, with shadowy textures and quivering darkness in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony.

****1

Alex Boyer (Herod) and Jennifer Holloway (Salome) © Kyle Flubacker

Graham Meyer, 25 Jan

Revived at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the notorious opera director’s take stirs sympathy for Salome, but leans on some of his theatrical hobby-horses

****1

Markus Brück (Alberich), Yajie Zhang, Verity Wingate and Sarah Brady (Rhinemaidens) © Wilfried Hösl

Phillip Richter, 03 Nov

Tobias Kratzer's prelude to this new Ring cycle exceeds all expectations and scores a musical-theatrical success.

*****

Jacquelyn Wagner (Leonore) © Monika Rittershaus | Dutch National Opera

Eleanor Knight, 05 Jun

The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.

*1111

Nicholas Brownlee (Méphistophélès) and Duke Kim (Faust) © Pat Redmond

Andrew Larkin, 01 Oct

Jack Furness turns Faust into an Oppenheimer-type scientist in a powerful, well-sung staging in Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.

****1

Tézier rules in Zurich's still socially-distanced Simon Boccanegra

Laura Servidei, 15 Dec

Andreas Homoki’s production suffers from last season's Covid restrictions, resulting in an alienating, aloof performance, but under the energetic baton of Marco Armiliato, it still proves a very successful musical evening.

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