| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Mar-2013 Birmingham Symphony Hall | CBSO and Andris Nelsons: The Flying Dutchman in concert |
 Andris Nelsons followed up his 2012 Tristan und Isolde with a stirring performance of Wagner’s breakthrough work, Der fliegende Holländer, with a fine array of soloists and the CBSO in Birmingham.
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| 24-May-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Nina Stemme comes out ahead in Cleveland Orchestra's Salome |
 “When I looked at you, I heard secret music,” says Salome in her monologue to the severed head of John the Baptist. Richard Strauss’s opera trades in the unseeable and the unknowable—from the range of metaphors applied to the moon to the nearly impossible staging of a ten-minute striptease performed by a dramatic soprano—which makes it unusually well suited to concert presentation. Strauss’ high-octane, atmospheric music can seem all the more lurid and mysterious when its subjective visualization is left to the imagination.Read full review... | |
| 21-Jun-2011 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Andrew Davis conducts a powerful telling of Britten's Peter Grimes |
 HEPPNER AS PETER GRIMES, COPPLESTONE AS JOHN (C) BARDA 2011.jpg) English classical music is often associated with the countryside, the landscape and its villages, and Britten's opera Peter Grimes is no exception. But this isn't the gentle, pastoral landscape of Brooke or Housman, and no larks are ascending here: it's a harsh, forbidding place inhabited by harsh, forbidding people whose Christianity has much faith and some hope but a distinct shortage of charity.Read full review... | |
| 29-Dec-2010 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Hurrah! The Witch is Dead! |
 This reviewer fully expected not to enjoy today’s matinee, having read the recent Guardian review and heard mixed reports from friends who saw it when it first came out. Apart from a couple of minor quibbles – why doesn’t the mother knock the milk jug over as indicated in the score? And why when Hansel is stuck under the Witch’s kitchen unit does his foot appears in one drawer unbelievably far away from his finger which appears in another drawer – was this supposed to be funny?Read full review... | |
