Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra brought their staging of Bach’s St Matthew Passion to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday, 6 September 2014.
Month: September 2014
Glimmerglass: Butterfly Leads the Pack
Every so often an opera fan is treated to a minor miracle, a revelatory performance of a familiar favorite that immediately sweeps all other versions before it.
Operalia, the World Opera Competition, Showcases 2014 Winners
On August 30, Los Angeles Opera presented the finals concert of Pl·cido Domingo’s Operalia, the world opera competition. Founded in 1993, the contest endeavors to discover and help launch the careers of the most promising young opera singers of today. Thousands of applicants send in recordings from which forty singers are chosen to perform live in the city where the contest is being held. Last year it was Verona, Italy, this year Los Angeles, next year London.
Elektra at Prom 59
The second day of the Richard Strauss weekend at the BBC Proms saw Richard
Strauss’s Elektra performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 August 2014
by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with Christine
Goerke in the title role.