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Bachtrack Newsletter | 21 April 2023
Welcome to your weekly newsletter with our top streaming recommendations. If previous episodes in Finnish National Opera's epic saga are any indication, you should try to catch their new Siegfried, one of our top opera picks.
For those of you based in the US, we've hand-picked six live events happening in the next week: six wonderful concerts, operas or ballets which we recommend you get to if you can. But if these don't take your fancy, you can also search the 6,500 events on our site.
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Must-see events this week
Boston Symphony/Andris Nelsons
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
25 April
The New York premiere of Thomas Adès' Air for Violin and Orchestra performed by its dedicatee Anne-Sophie Mutter
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Detroit Symphony/JoAnn Falletta
Orchestra Hall, Detroit, MI
27-29 April
Augustin Hadelich performs not one but two violin concertos, by Stravinsky and the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
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Aida
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY
27 April-18 May
The mighty walls and towering monuments of ancient Egypt once again fill the Met stage, as Verdi’s great spectacle returns
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A Sea Symphony
Atlanta Symphony Hall, Atlanta, GA
27 & 29 April
Music inspired by the lust for adventure, by Lera Auerbach, Wagner and Vaughan Williams. The Atlanta Symphony is conducted by Nicholas Carter
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Paul Taylor Dance Company
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
28-30 April
Three works: Company B (Paul Taylor), The Green Table (Kurt Jooss), and a world premiere by Resident Choreographer Lauren Lovette.
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Salome
Wortham Theater Center, Houston, TX
28 April-12 May
Strauss’s erotic psychodrama is directed at Houston Grand Opera by Francisco Negrin and conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson
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Concert streams
Berlin
Klaus Mäkelä and the Berlin Phil play two Sixths by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky
Bergen
Vadim Gluzman plays Prokofiev's luscious Second Violin Concerto with the Bergen Phil
Stockholm
Christina Nilsson sings Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Aix-en-Provence
Renaud Capuçon invites back all the Génération @ Aix players to mark ten years of the festival
New York City
Sir András Schiff joins members of the New York Philharmonic for chamber music at 92Y
Helsinki
Tugan Sokhiev conducts the Finnish RSO in Anton Bruckner's mighty Eighth Symphony
Bachtrack top ten: Prokofiev
“I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.” Sergei Prokofiev (born 23rd April 1891) was one of the most important Russian composers of the 20th century, writing in a variety of forms and always happy to challenge conventions. Enjoy symphonies, concertos, ballets, opera and more in our top ten playlist.
Opera and dance streams
La sonnambula
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
A new production conducted by bel canto specialist Antonino Fogliani, directed by Johannes Erath
Siegfried
Finnish National Opera
Anna Kelo sets Siegfried in the present, where the value of humanity is measured in the size of steroid-pumped muscles
Goldberg-Variationen
Wiener Staatsballett
A new Viennese double bill pairs Ohad Naharin's Tabula Rasa and Heinz Spoerli's Goldberg Variations
Norma
Teatro Massimo, Palermo
Marina Rebeka stars as the high priestess Norma, jilted by Dmitry Korchak's Pollione in Bellini's bel canto classic
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Photography credits:
Laureates of the 2022 ARD International Music Competition © Daniel Delang ;
Andris Nelsons © Boston Symphony Orchestra, Augustin Hadelich © Suxiao Yang, Aida © Ken Howard / Met Opera, Nicholas Carter © Annette Korroll, Paul Taylor Dance Company © Whitney Browne, Salome © Tato Baeza;
Klaus Mäkelä © Jerome Bonnet, Vadim Gluzman © Marco Borggreve, Christina Nilsson © Besim Mazhiqi, Sir András Schiff © Nadia F Romanini, Tugan Sokhiev © Patrice Nin, Génération @ Aix © Festival de Pâques 2023 | Caroline Doutre;
La sonnambula © Monika Rittershaus | Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Siegfried © Ralph Larmann | Finnish National Opera, Goldberg-Variationen (Rehearsal photo) © Ashley Taylor | Wiener Staatsballett, Norma © Teatro Massimo;
Alfred Kim and Leigh Melrose (Nixon in China) © Teatro Real | Javier del Real, Nadja Stefanoff (Die tote Stadt) © Sandra Then, Vilma Jää and Jenny Carlstedt (Innocence) © ROH | Tristram Kenton, Abel Selaocoe and Lawrence Renes © Carlin Ma, Lisa Batiashvili © Daniel Dittus, Michael Tilson Thomas © Roger Mastroianni, courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra
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