Month: November 2014
Florencia in el Amazonas Makes Triumphant Return to LA
On November 22, 2014, Los Angeles Opera staged Francesca Zambello’s updated version of Florencia in el Amazonas.
John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary
John Adams and his long-standing collaborator Peter Sellars have described The Gospel According to the Other Mary as a ‘Passion oratorio’.
A new Yevgeny Onegin in Zagreb — Prince Gremin’s Fabulous Pool Party
Superb conducting from veteran Croatian maestro Niköa Bareza makes up for an absurd waterlogged new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece.
Nabucco in Novi Sad
After the horrors of Jagoö Markovi?’s production of Le Nozze di
Figaro in Belgrade, I was apprehensive lest Nabucco in Serbia’s
second city of Novi Sad on 27th October would be transplanted from
6th century BC Babylon to post-Saddam Hussein Tikrit or some
bombed-out kibbutz in Beersheba.
La BohËme in San Francisco
First Toronto, then Houston and now San Francisco, the third stop of a new production of Puccini’s La bohËme by Canadian born, British nurtured theater director John Caird.
Radvanovsky Sings Recital in Los Angeles
Every once in a while Los Angeles Opera presents an important recital in the three thousand seat Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
L’elisir d’amore, Royal Opera
This third revival of Laurent Pelly’s production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore needed a bit of a pep up to get moving but once it had been given a shot of ‘medicinal’ tincture things spiced up nicely.
Samling Showcase, Wigmore Hall
Founded in 1996, Samling describes itself as a charity which ‘inspires musical excellence in young people’.
La cenerentola in San Francisco
The good news is that you don’t have to go all the way to Pesaro for great Rossini.