In Moscow there a festival planned by the Britten Pears Foundation and the British Council including the Russian premiere of Death in Venice conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, though quite what effect the work will have given Russia's new clampdown on homosexuality is anyone's guess. Also in the festival Sir Mark Elder conducting the Russian National Orchestra and Ian Bostridge in The Canticles.
LA Opera's celebrations encompass seven operas, plus chamber music, recitals and talks presented in venues all over California. War Requiem is being performed at Walt Disney Hall conducted by James Conlon. The Tanglewood Festival is presenting Curlew River with the Mark Morris Dance Group whilst Les Illuminations pops up in Aspen. A Midsummer Night's Dream makes its appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, though you can't help feeling that the theatre is a rather too big for the piece. Whilst the Brooklyn Academy of Music is presenting Glyndebourne's production of Billy Budd. Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra are performing the War Requiem. And the Canadian Opera Company are performing Peter Grimes.
Billy Budd will get its premieres in Chile, at Santiago, and in Sweden, at Gothenburg Opera. Billy Budd is also being performed at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Elsewhere in Germany celebrations include A Midsummer Night's Dream from the Komische Oper, Berlin and four Britten operas as part of Deutsche Opera am Rhein's Britten Festival. The NDR Jugendsinfonieorchester perform Turn of the Screw in Hamburg with Miah Persson and the Cologne Philharmonie will perform Peter Grimes at the Gstaad Festival. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester in Peter Grimes in Leipzig.
Antonio Pappano and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia will perform the War Requiem at the Salzburg Festival, whilst at the Vienna State Opera there is a new production of Peter Grimes. The War Requiem will be presented at the Metz Arsenal, and Opera de Lyon will be featuring new productions of Peter Grimes, Turn of the Screw and Curlew River.
Further information from the Britten100 website.
Elsewhere on this blog:
- New music director for Temple Church
- Is melody enough? - Review of CD of Christopher Wood Requiem
- Too many words? - Mike Christie's The Miller's Wife at the Grimeborn Festival
- The virtues of line and text. - Ben Johnson in Britten and Handel
- Jazz influence. - Review of The Coral Sea, CD of new music for saxophone and piano
- Tete a Tete: the Opera Festival
- Viktor Bijelovic - Empassioned - CD review
- Grimeborn - Magic Flute
- The Bear goes Walkabout
- Stile Antico - Phoenix Rising - CD review
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