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OPERA REVIEW INDEX JANUARY - JUNE 2007
Wagner, Das Rheingold:
new production
Soloists, Longborough Festival Opera
orchestra, Anthony Negus (conductor),
Longborough 27.6.2007 (JPr)
Massenet,
Manon:
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of The
Gran Teatre del Liceu Conductor:
Victor Pablo Pérez,
Liceu de Barcelona. 27.6.2007 (JMI)
Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier:
San
Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House,
San Francisco, 27.6.2007 (HS)
Manuel García, Il
Califfo di Bagdad:
Semi
staged version. Les Talens
Lyriques, Conductor: Christophe
Rousset.
Teatro de la Zarzuela,
Madrid. 26.6.2007.
(JMI)
Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos:
(new
production premiere) Soloists, Garsington Opera Orchestra, Elgar
Howarth (conductor) Garsington Opera,
25.6.2007 (LD)
Mozart: ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ :
Soloists,
Orchestra of The Royal College of Music,
cond. Michael Rosewell. The Royal College
of Music Benjamin Britten International
Opera School, London 25. 6.2007. (ME)
Bellini, I Puritani:
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus
of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis,
Stephen Lord (conductor) Saint Louis,
Missouri, 24.6. 2007 (LS)
Hellenic
Festival
2007:
Bizet , Carmen,
Soloists,
Greek
National Opera
Chorus and Orchestra; conductor: Lukas
Karytinos,
Herod
Atticus Theater, Athens, 23.6. 2007
(BM)
Opera North on Tour:
The Lowry Theatre,
Salford Quays,
Salford, UK 19.6 - 23.6.2007 (RJF)
Leo Janáček, Katya Kabanova:
Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of The
Royal Opera House, cond. Charles
Mackerras. Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, 19.6.2007 (ME)
Beethoven, Fidelio:
Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera
House, Covent Garden, cond. Antonio
Pappano. 14.6.2007 (JPr)
Aldeburgh Festival (1) Britten, Death in
Venice:
Yoshi Oida
(director), Tom Schenk (set designer),
Paul Daniel (conductor), Britten-Pears
Orchestra, The Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh,
11.06.2007 (AO)
Mozart, La clemenza di Tito:
Soloists;
Chorus & Orchestra of
English National Opera/Edward Gardner.
London Coliseum, 8.6 2007 (CC)
Mozart,
Don Giovanni:
Soloists, San Francisco Opera
Orchestra / Donald Runnicles (conductor)
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco
5.6.2007 (PB)
Janáček ,
From the House of the Dead:
Soloists, Mahler
Chamber Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg
Choir, Pierre Boulez (conductor) Het
Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Holland 31.
5.2007 (AO)
Beethoven,
Fidelio:
Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, cond.
Antonio Pappano. 30.5.2007 (ME)
Britten, Death in Venice:
English National Opera Orchestra and
Chorus, cond. Edward Gardner, Ian
Bostridge (Aschenbach), Peter
Coleman-Wright (baritone roles),
Iestyn Davies (Voice of Apollo),
various soloists. English National
Opera at the London Coliseum.
24.5.2007 (ME)
Wagner, Die Walküre:
Soloists and
orchestra of L'Opéra de Marseille (new
production) Marseille, France. 23.5.2007
(MM)
Bartók and Weill at Welsh National Opera:
(WNO premieres)
Soloists and Orchestra of Welsh National
Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor)
Diversions Dance Company, Wales
Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 23.5.2007 (BK)
Berlioz, La Damnation de Faust:
(concert
performance) Soloists, Chorus and
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera,
Choristers of Llandaff Cathedral Choir,
Carlo Rizzi, conductor, Wales Millennium
Centre, Cardiff, 19.05.2007 (GPu)
Handel, Giulio Cesare:
Soloists,
Concert
d'Astrée / Emanuelle Haïm, Opéra de Lille,
18.5.2007 (SL)
Purcell, King Arthur or The
British Worthy:
Brighton
Festival 2007
Soloists,
Orchestra of the Baroque, Christopher
Monks (harpsichord continuo/musical
director) Theatre Royal, Brighton
17.5.2007 (DW)
José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, El viaje a
Simorgh
:
(Premiere) Soloists, Coro y Orquestra
Titular del Teatro Real,
Gelabert-Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa,
Experimentalstudio für akustische Kunst
e.V. Freiburg, Jesús López Cobos,
conductor, Teatro Real, Madrid, 15.05.2007
(GPu)
Charles Gounod, Mireille:
production from
the Opéra de Nice. Soloists, chorus and
orchestra of the Opéra Toulon Provence
Méditerranée; Toulon, France. 15.05. 2007
(MM
Mozart , Così fan tutte
at the Royal
Stockholm Opera ( New
Production) 12.5.2007(GF)
Bizet, Carmen:
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of
Welsh National Opera, Michal Klauza
(conductor) Wales Millennium Centre,
Cardiff 11.05.2007 (MS)
Debussy,
Pelléas et Mélisande: Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal
Opera House, Sir Simon Rattle
(conductor) Royal Opera, London
11.05.2007 (AO)
Puccini, La
Bohème: Seattle Opera,
soloists, cond. Vjekoslav Sutej,
dir. Jose Maria Condemi, set
designer Pier Luigi Pizzi, costume
designer Martin Pakledinaz, lighting
designer Thomas C. Hase, Marion
Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, 5.5 &
8.5.2006 (BJ)
Bizet, The Pearlfishers:
Soloists,
orchestra and chorus of
Opera Boston, Gil Rose (conductor),
Boston,
Massachusetts, 8.05.2007 (LS)
John Adams, Nixon in
China:
Greek
National Opera revival of ENO
Production at Athens Concert Hall GNO
Orchestra – Conductor: David Parry,
28.4. 2007 (BM)
Carlisle Floyd, Susannah:
Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of
Arizona Opera, Joel Rivzen (conductor)
Tucson Music Hall 28-9.4.2007 (NdV)
Britten, Owen Wingrave:
Soloists,
Players of the City of London, Rory
Macdonald (conductor) Linbury Theatre,
Royal Opera House, London, 27.04.2007 (AO)
Gounod, Faust:
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus
of the Opernhaus Zürich, Switzerland,
Patrick Fournillier (conductor),
25.04.2007 (ARz)
Puccini, La Fanciulla del West:
Soloists,
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulf Schirmer
(conductor) New National Theater, Tokyo 21.04,2007
(LW)
Monteverdi, L’Orfeo: New
London Consort, Philip Pickett (conductor)
Jonathan Miller, (Director). Semi-staging
at The Sage Concert Hall,
Newcastle/Gateshead, UK, 25.04.2007 (JL)
Rossini, Barber of Seville: Opera
Australia, State
Theatre, Melbourne, 21.04.2007 (HS)
Verdi,Stiffelio:
Soloists / Orchestra
and Chorus of
the Royal Opera / Mark Elder (conductor).
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
20.04.2007 (ED)
Johann
Strauss II
Die Fledermaus: The
Ballet of the Vienna State Opera and Volksoper;
Orchestra and Chorus of the Volksoper, Vienna/Elisabeth
Attl Volksoper, Vienna, 13.4.2007 (GF)
Philip Glass , Satyagraha: Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of the ENO, Johannes Rebus (conductor)
, Skills Ensemble , English National Opera, The Coliseum,
London 6.04.2007 (AO)
Verdi, Falstaff:
Seattle
Opera Young Artists Program, soloists, members of the
Auburn Symphony, cond. Dean Williamson, dir. Peter Kazaras;
Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA, 01.4.2007 (BJ)
Kirke Mechem,
Tartuffe:
University of Arizona Opera
Theater, Adam Boyles (conductor) Stevie Ellen Dance
Theatre, Tucson, 30.03.2007 (NdV)
Ravel,
L’Heure espagnole
and
Puccini, Gianni Schicchi :
new productions by Richard
Jones (director), John Macfarlane (set designs), Nicky
Gillibrand (costumes designs), various soloists and
orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
(conductor) Covent Garden, London. 30. 3.2007
(JPr)
Puccini,
Tosca: Greek
National Opera, Olympia Theater,
Conductor,Lukas Karytinos, 20 and 30 March 2007 (BM)
Tchaikovsky,
Eugene Onegin: Sung
in Russian with surtitles. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
of the Royal Northern College of Music / Tecwyn Evans
(conductor) Bruntwood Theatre, RNCM, Manchester, 29.3.2007
(RJF)
Handel, Teseo:
(New
Production) Soloists and
chorus of the Opéra de Nice,
Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Gilbert Bezzina (conductor)
Nice, France. 18.03.2007 (MM)
Stravinsky,
The Rake’s Progress:
(New
production) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of The
Swedish Royal Opera, Christian Badea (conductor)
Stockholm, 16.03. 2007 (GF)
Richard
Strauss, Elektra: Soloists, Athens State
Orchestra – conductor Johan Arnell Athens
Concert Hall, 10.3. 2007 (BM)
Donizetti, Imelda de' Lambertazzi: Soloists,
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
Mark Elder (conductor) QEH 10.03. 2007 (CC)
Handel, Giulio
Cesare in Egitto : Seattle
Opera, soloists, cond. Gary
Thor Wedow, dir. Robin Guarino, set designer Paul Steinberg,
costume designer Constance Hoffman, Marion Oliver McCaw
Hall, Seattle, 24.02 & 9.03.2007 (BJ)
Henze,
Boulevard Solitude:
production from Covent Garden,
London. Soloists and orchestra of the Gran Teatre
del Liceu, Zoltan Pesko (conductor); Barcelona, Spain.
5.03.2007 (MM)
Verdi, Nabucco: Greek
National Opera, Elias Voudouris (conductor) Olympia
Theater, Athens 4.03.2007 (BM)
Weill, The Rise and Fall of the City of
Mahagonny:
Los
Angeles Opera, James Conlon, conductor; Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion, Los Angeles, 4.03.2007 (HS)
Opera
North On Tour: The
Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays. 27.02 - 3.03.2007 (RJF)
Zemlinsky,
Eine florentinische Tragödie / Wolf-Ferrari, Il segreto
di Susanna:
new production.
Soloists of the Opéra National de Montpellier, the Orchestra
National de Montpellier, Languedoc-Rousillon, Bernard
Kontarsky (conductor); Location, Montpellier,
France. 02.03.2007 (MM)
Adams,
A Flowering Tree:
libretto
by Peter Sellars and John Adams,
San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, John Adams, conductor;
Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 2.03.2007 (HS)
Bizet, Carmen: (Revival)
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
of Welsh National Opera, Michel Klauza, conductor, Wales
Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 28.2.2007 (GPu)
Handel, Orlando:
Soloists,
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
cond. Charles Mackerras Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
26.02.2007 (ME)
Janáček,The
Excursions of Mr Brouček:
Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), BBC Symphony
Orchestra, BBC Singers, Stephen Betteridge (chorusmaster),
Kenneth Richardson (stage director) Barbican Hall, London
25.02.2007(AO)
Puccini, La Bohème: Soloists, Chorus & Orchestra of English National Opera/Xian Zhang, London Coliseum, 24.02.2007 (CC)
Cilea,
L'Arlesiana: (Concert
Performance) Soloists, Opera
Orchestra of New York, Eve Queler (conductor) Carnegie
Hall, NY 21.02.2007 (NdV)
Strauss, Elektra :
Soloists
and Orchestra of Istanbul
State Opera, Alexandru
Samoila (conductor)
Istanbul, Turkey 21.02.2007 (MiE)
Verdi
, Attila: Soloists;orchestra and Chorus of
Sarasota Opera, Victor de Renzi (conductor)
Sarasota,
Florida, 20.02.2007 (LS)
Ricky
Ian Gordon,
The Grapes
of Wrath:
(2007, world
premiere)
Libretto
by Michael Korie, based on the novel by John Steinbeck,
The Minnesota Opera, Grant Gershon (conductor),
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul,
Minnesota, 17.02.2007 (BH)
Mussorgsky,
Khovanshchina:
(New Production
premiere - sung in English) Soloists, Orchestra
and Chorus of Welsh National Opera, Lothar Koenigs
(conductor) Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 17.02.2007
(BK)
Puccini:
Madama Butterfly:
original
production by Moshe Leiser
and Patrice Caurier, various soloists, chorus and
orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conducted by
Nicola Luisotti 14.02.2007 (JPr)
Handel
Agrippina: dir:
David McVicar. Soloists,
orchestra of the English National Opera, cond. Daniel
Reuss. English National Opera at the London Coliseum,
05.02. 2007 (ME)
Puccini,
Madama Butterfly:
(Production
from The Minnesota Opera
and Opera Theatre of St. Louis) Soloists and
Orchestra Arizona Opera, Antony Walker(conductor)
Tucson, AZ 3and 4.02. 2007 (NdV)
Puccini,
Madama Butterfly: (Revival
Premiere) Soloists,
Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Julian
Smith, conductor, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff,
03.02.2007 (GPu)
Verdi,
Il trovatore: Soloists
/ Orchestra and
Chorus
of the Royal Opera / Nicola Luisotti (conductor).
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 30.01.07
(ED)
Marin
Marais, Sémélé: (New
Production) Soloists of
L'Opéra National de Montpellier, Chorus and Orchestra
of Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet (conductor),
Montpellier, France. 30.01.2007 (MM)
Verdi,
Don Carlos:
(Production
from the Vienna State Opera) Soloists, Chorus and
Orchestra of the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Maurizio
Benini (conductor); Location, Barcelona,
Spain. 29.01.2007 (MM)
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice:
Greek
National Opera, Olympia Theater, Athens Conductor:
George Petrou 26.1.2007 (BM)
Bizet,
Carmen:
(New production)
Francesca
Zambello (director) Tanya McCallin (designs) Paule
Constable (lighting) Arthur Pita (choreography)
The Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by
Phillipe Augin 22.01.2007 (GD)
Verdi
La
traviata
at
the Royal Opera,
Stockholm,
20.1.2007. New Production Premiere (GF)
Mozart:
Don Giovanni Seattle
Opera, soloists, cond.
Andreas Mitisek, dir. Chris Alexander, Marion Oliver
McCaw Hall, Seattle, 20.01.2007 (BJ)
Donizetti, La Fille du Régiment :
Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, cond.
Bruno Campanella. New production by Laurent Pelly.
Covent Garden, 14.01.2007 (ME)
Tan
Dun:
The First Emperor
(2006,
world premiere):
Soloists, Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, Tan
Dun (cond), Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 26.12.2006
and 13.01.2007 (BH)
Ernest Bloch, Macbeth:
Soloists,
Orchestra and Chorus of Oper Frankfurt, 04.01.2007
(BM)