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Under the direction of NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen, the orchestra’s performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons was completely coherent – the poetry, the soloists, the orchestra,
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra directed by Vesa-Matti Leppänen with Anna van der Zee, Malavika Gopal, Simeon Broom and Alan Molina (all violin). Music by Vivaldi and Piazzolla. Wellington College, May 8. Reviewed by Max Rashbrooke. I had low expectations, I’ll admit: what was yet another performance of
Four Seasons going to tell me about this well-worn piece? Plenty of things, as it turned out. Things were livened up from the outset by readings from the poems that had originally accompanied Vivaldi’s composition. Another nice touch was to have one soloist per season, each of them drawn from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s ranks.
Elegy: Snow in June. View here.
Friday, April 30
12 pm ET: Princeton Symphony presents
Buskaid: Curious Creatures & a Heavenly Harp. Rosemary Nalden, Music conducts the Buskaid Soweto String Ensemble with Jude Harpstar, guest harpist and Mzwandile Twala, violin in Carlo Farina’s
Capriccio Stravagante, Debussy’s
Reverie, and Kreisler’s
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Mozart’s
Die Zauberflöte. Conductor: Adam Fischer, directors: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier. With Jörg Schneider, Olga Bezsmertna, Hila Fahima, Thomas Tatzl, and René Pape. Production from December 2017. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: Concertgebouworkest presents
Daniel Harding Conducts. Daniel Harding conducts the Concertgebouworkest in Stravinsky’s
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It’s hard to remember an Opera Atelier production that has come with as much anticipation, and out of as much perseverance, as its latest creation,
Something Rich & Strange.
The pastiche-style program of arias and ballets, both baroque and brand new, was originally slated for October, opening the Toronto opera company’s 35th anniversary season at Koerner Hall. It was to be shown to a small audience of 50, in accordance with the COVID-19 restrictions at the time, and livestreamed to a larger audience online.