1. Orpheus
Leeds Grand; October (Available online until April 30, 2023)
In a year when opera came under attack, Opera North’s exciting combination of Monteverdi and Indian classical traditions exceeded all expectations, including high musical value and genuinely entertaining local engagement.
2. Lady of the camellias
Grand Opera House, Belfast. September
An exemplary production of Northern Irish opera that has overcome difficult times to successfully present Verdi’s masterpiece and reach out to the wider Belfast community.
3. Music@Malling, Kent
Maling Abbey, Kent. April
Music@Malling’s commission of six new works by a wide range of composers, performed alongside six Brandenburg Concertos by Bach in an old Benedictine monastery in a small market town in Kent, was an uplifting and rewarding hit .
Four. migration/macropUros Incident
Cardiff Millennium Centre. June/September
Welsh National Opera has lost its grant from Arts Council England in 2022. It was an exceptional year for the company’s artistic achievements.Janáček’s wonderful September piece macropUros Incident Showed style and authority. In June, WNO musicians and choirs, Renewal Choir Community Chorus, Bollywood ensembles and children’s choirs combined to create a lively and heart-wrenching stage. Migration: Six stories and one clever composer, Will Todd.
Five. midsummer night’s dream
Theater Royal Glasgow; February
Also good at opera “Flamenco” AinadamarScottish Opera hit comic gold with Britain’s version of Shakespeare, conducted by Dominic Hill (artistic director of Glasgow’s Civic Theater) and conducted by Stuart Stratford, musical director of Scottish Opera .
6. Mahler 8
Royal Albert Hall, London. October
So many singers: Philharmonia Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Choir, City of London Choir, Tiffin Boys Choir, Scola Cantorum of the Vaughan Cardinal Memorial School, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on stage at Albert Hall under the baton of Vasily Petrenko packed with. He plays Mahler’s “Thousand Symphonies”. This evokes the incomparable excitement of a concert on a grand scale.
7. Elisabeth Leonskaya & Staatskapelle String Quartet
Wigmore Hall, London. September
Leonskaya, 77, a Soviet-Austrian, is one of the greatest pianists alive, happily showing off her skills in Brahms’ chamber music, with a virtuoso nearly half her age playing every note on her. depends on
8. Peter Grimes
Royal Opera House, London.march
It has been a strong year for Covent Garden. Theodora, Samson and Delilah, Alkina, Aida strong resurgence of Lohengrinconducted by newly announced musical directors Jakub Hrusa and Oliver Rees last days in Lynberry.But for ensemble talent, Britten’s Peter Grimes A triumphant staging for Deborah Warner starring Alan Clayton, Maria Bengsson and Bryn Terfel.
9. salome
Usher Hall, Edinburgh. August
A concert opera performance by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra has become a hot festival ticket in recent years.This year was no exception: Richard Strauss’s salomedirected by Edward Gardner and starring Malin Bystrom, threatened to melt Usher Hall itself.
Ten. Bajazette
Lynbury Theatre, London. February
Stylish, urgent, and full of energy, Irish National Opera is a fine example of Vivaldi’s operatic productions (there are many…).