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Otto Tausk; Michel van der Aa; Dutch National Opera; Theun Mosk; Elske van Buuren; Roderick Williams
LondonVasily Petrenko conducts Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko; Christine Rice; Ed Lyon; Roderick Williams; Philharmonia Chorus
EdinburghMalcolm Martineau & Friends
Schubert, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
Malcolm Martineau; Elizabeth Watts; Roderick Williams; Sijie Chen
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LondonApollo e Dafne
Telemann, Bach, Handel
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Roderick Williams; Rowan Pierce
WelwynSea Voyages and Salvation
Graupner, Telemann, Bruhns, Bach
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Roderick Williams
EdinburghMalcolm Martineau & Friends
Schubert, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
Malcolm Martineau; Elizabeth Watts; Roderick Williams; Sijie Chen
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Its theme of the passing of everything from cherry blossom to opera houses made this a programme for the artistic perils of our time.
In the round: Roderick Williams sings and directs the OAE
Handel’s Italian cantata Apollo and Daphne is enjoying a Covid wave, perfect as it is for socially-distanced singing.
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A deep-dive into the world of 14th-century Persian poet, Hafez, and his influence on song across the centuries.
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Anthony Minghella's classic production of Madam Butterfly makes a welcome return with a sensational role debut by Natalya Romaniw as Cio-Cio-san.
True Grimes: a gripping semi-staging of Britten’s opera
A psychologically penetrating semi-staging of Britten’s Peter Grimes from leading soloists, the Bergen Philharmonic and its chief conductor Ed Gardner laid bare the opera’s music and drama.
Parallel symmetries and random synchronicities at Festival d’Aix
In his 2016 opera Blank Out, Dutch composer Michel van der Aa has managed to create a new kind of operatic ‘reality’ that resonates powerfully with today’s Zeitgeist. Highly recommended.