Every once in a while Los Angeles Opera presents an important recital in the three thousand seat Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
Year: 2014
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.
Rameau: MaÓtre ‡ danser — William Christie, Barbican London
MaÓtre ‡ danser: William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican, London, presented a defining moment in Rameau performance practice, choreographed with a team of dancers.
The Met mounts a well sung but dramatically unconvincing ‘Carmen’
Should looks matter when casting the role of the iconic temptress for HD simulcast?
Maurice Greene’s Jephtha
Maurice Greene (1696-1755) had a highly successful musical career. Organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a position to which he was elected when he was just 22 years-old, he later became organist of the Chapel Royal, Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and, from 1735, Master of the King’s Music.
Tosca in San Francisco
Yet another Tosca is hardly exciting news, if news at all. The current five performances have come just two years after SFO alternated divas Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette in the title role.
Antonin Dvo?·k: The Cunning Peasant (äelma Sedl·k)
What an enjoyable opportunity to encounter Dvo?·k’s sixth opera, äelma Sedl·k∏or The Cunning Peasant!