Iestyn Davies’ Wigmore Hall recital, ‘History Repeating’, may have explored various composers’ engagement with, and reinterpretation and reinvigoration of, music of the past, but Davies himself is very much the countertenor of the moment, and undoubtedly an exciting and fulfilling future lies ahead.
Month: May 2012
Semele, Canadian Opera Company
You never can tell. I would never have predicted which opera would be my favourite of the seven operas programmed this season by the Canadian Opera Company.
Billy Budd — Metropolitan Opera
The Met saved the best of the season for the end of it, revivals of their first-rate productions of two twentieth-century masterpieces, J·naček’s Makropoulos Case and Britten’s Billy Budd.
Damrau Dazzles in Geneva
It is not long into Act One of Mignon at Geneva’s Grand Theatre when Diana Damrau glides on stage as Philine, commands our rapt attention, and sweeps all before her.
VÈronique Gens, Wigmore Hall, London
VÈronique Gens’s recital at the Wigmore Hall, London, was an almost ideal distillation of the belle Èpoque in song.
BartÛk and Szymanowski, Barbican Hall
In this, the second of two LSO concerts in which PÈter Eˆtvˆs replaced
Pierre Boulez, one continued to feel the loss of the latter in his repertoire,
yet one equally continued to value his replacement, very much his own
man.
My Big Fat American Moustache: A Wartime CosÏ Fan Tutte
An energetic and exceptionally entertaining production of CosÏ fan tutte sung in English and set during World War II, when the Americans often got the girls.
Torsten Kerl to Perform Tannh‰user
Casting changes continue at the Bayreuth Festival, now only three months
away.