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2013-2014 Season Reviews

ROH

Turandot Lise Lindstrom, Marco Berti, Eri Nakamura, Henrik Nanasi
Le Nozze di Figaro Luca Pisaroni, Christopher Maltman, Maria Bengtsson, Lucy Crowe, John Eliot-Gardiner
Elektra Christine Goerke, Michaela Schuster, Adrianne Pieczonka, Andris Nelsons
The Wasp Factory UK Premiere Ben Frost opera
El gato con botas Young Artists Programme
Les vêpres siciliennes Marina Poplavskaya, Bryan Hymel, Michael Volle, Erwin Schrott, Antonio Pappano
Greek Music Theatre Wales
Wozzeck Simon Keenleyside, Karita Mattila, John Tomlinson, Mark Elder
Parsifal René Pape, Gerald Finley, Angela Denoke, Simon O'Neill, Willard White, Antonio Pappano
Manon Ermonela Jaho, Matthew Polenzani (also with Ailyn Perez)
Carmen Anita Rachvelishvili, Roberto Alagna, Christine Rice
Don Giovanni new Kasper Holten production
Die Frau Ohne Schatten Emily Magee, Elena Pankratova, Johan Reuter, Johan Botha, Michaela Schuster, Semyon Bychkov


ENO

Fidelio Emma Bell, Stuart Skelton, Edward Gardner
Die Fledermaus Julia Sporsen, Jennifer Holloway, Richard Burkhard, Eun Sun Kim
Madama Butterfly Mary Plazas, Pamela Helen Stephen
Die Zauberflöte Roland Wood, James Creswell
Satyagraha Alan Oke
Peter Grimes Stuart Skelton, Elsa can den Heever, Edward Gardner
Rigoletto Quinn Kelsey, Anna Christy, Barry Banks, Graeme Jenkins
Rodelinda Rebecca Evans, Iestyn Davies, John Mark Ainsley, Susan Bickley


Glyndebourne

Hansel und Gretel - Tour
The Rape of Lucretia - Tour


Other Opera

Walkure Act I St. John's Smith Square
L'Orfeo Barbican
America Lulu The Young Vic
Jason ETO
Agrippina ETO
L'enfant prodigue/Francesca di Foix Guildhall school of Music
Roberto Devereux WNO
Albert Herring Barbican (not reviewed. A semi-staged performance that was just about ideal.)
Ravel double bill RCM
Paul Bunyan ETO
King Priam ETO
L'Ormindo Sam Wanamaker Theatre, The Globe (not reviewed. Unfunny, boring production, music uninteresting, singing decent)
Prince Igor Kolosov Novaya Opera
Der Rosenkavalier Barbican (Schwanewilms, Connolly, Crowe)

Concerts

Anne Schwanewilms with Roger Vignoles, Wigmore Hall
Christian Gerhaher with Gerold Huber, Wigmore Hall
Jonas Kaufmann Winterreise with Helmut Deutsch, ROH
Christiane Karg with Malcolm Martineau, Wigmore Hall


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