ROH Cenerentola

Review here:

http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/roh-cenerentola-1207.shtml

In preparation for tonight's first night of La Cenerentola at the ROH, two interviews with members of the cast:

Alessandro Corbelli:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/corbelli-1207.shtml

Toby Spence:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/spence.shtml

Bernard Haitink returns to the ROH in Parsifal

Review here:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/roh-parsifal-1207.shtml

I think it's pretty shameful to have revived this production which nobody liked last time around. Couldn't they have bought another one in from somewhere?

New production of Turn of the Screw opens at ENO

I don't care what anyone else says, and the newspapers can give it one star and call it soulless and misguided if they want. I loved English National Opera's new production of The Turn of the Screw and I've already booked to see it again!

Read my review here:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/eno-screw-1107.shtml

Some new CD reviews:
Andrew Manze Schubert http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-manze-schubert-1107.shtml
Takacs Quartet Brahms http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-brahms-takacs-1107.shtml
Jon Vickers Four Portraits DVD: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/dvd-vickers-scenes-1107.shtml

LSO/Gergiev Mahler Symphony Cycle continues with the Sixth

Una-Frances evidently enjoyed the latest installment, coupled with Tishchenko's Cello Concerto played by Tim Hugh:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/lso-gergiev-mahler-1107.shtml

Tomorrow: Chelsea Opera Group's Maria Stuarda, Scottish Opera's Il Seraglio, plus several CD reviews.

D.

An interview with Ian Bostridge; Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane; Croesus at Opera North; Masur in Leeds

An interview with Ian Bostridge on his forthcoming 'Homeward Bound' series:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/bostridge-1107.shtml

The UK Premiere of Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/lpo-heliane-1107.shtml

The Fortunes of King Croesus at Opera North:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/on-croesus-1107.shtml

Kurt Masur and the Orchestre National de France in Leeds:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/onf-masur-1107.shtml

A strong cast for Maria Stuarda at Chelsea Opera Group:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/news/cog-1107.shtml

A reminder of Ann Murray's interview on ENO's new Turn of the Screw:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/murray-1107.shtml

Ann Murray on ENO's new production of The Turn of the Screw; reviews of CDs and DVDs; Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Read an interview with Ann Murray DBE on playing Mrs Grose in ENO's new production of The Turn of the Screw: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/interviews/murray-1107.shtml

An alternative short extra review of the Royal Opera's new production of L'elisir d'amore, this time with Dmitri Korchak as Nemorino: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/roh-elisir-2-1107.shtml

Catch up on CD and DVD reviews, including Anna Moffo in Madama Butterfly, Genia Kuhmeier in The Creation (EMI), and Colin Currie's new CD, here: http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/index.htm

New L'elisir d'amore opens at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; CDs of Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Max Emanuel Cencic; Opera North's Butterfly/Falstaff

A number of new articles, including the ROH's new production of L'elisir d'amore:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/roh-elisir.shtml

Dmitri Hvorostovsky's new CD:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-dmitri-heroes.shtml

Itzhak Perlman at the Barbican:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/concerts/barbican-perlman.shtml

Opera North:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/on-butterfly.shtml
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/opera/on-falstaff.shtml

Pavarotti in Luisa Miller CD:
http://www.musicalcriticism.com/recordings/cd-luisa-miller.shtml