Is it just me, or does this have incredible Celebrimbor energy? You just know this is how first-time visitors to Ost-in-Edhil usually meet its lord. :D

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Dorothea Röschmann sings excerpts from Tannhäuser as part of a concert with the Münchener Kammerorchester. Live broadcast Thursday, April 11 on BR Klassik.

Mezzophiles who especially admire Kate Lindsey may want to catch the radio broadcast of a “made-for-Cleveland production” of Ariadne auf Naxos in which she sang der Komponist earlier this year. Co-stars include Tamara Wilson, Andreas Schager, and Daniela Fally among others. Saturday, April 13 on WCLV. (Note: because World Concert Hall uses GMT for all listings, this concert is shown as being broadcast at 0:00 on the 14th, but that is 8:00 p.m. on the 13th, Cleveland time.)*

William Christie generally picks good singers to work with on baroque repertoire and the upcoming St John Passion he is conducting with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is no exception. The lineup: Reinoud van Mechelen (Evangelist), Alex Rosen (Christus), Emőke Baráth, Iestyn Davies, Anthony Gregory, and Renato Dolcini. Rosen is the only one completely unknown to me, while Gregory is vaguely familiar from social meda; the rest, I have definitely heard in live performance and I approve of this team. Live broadcast Sunday, April 14 on NPO Radio 4.*

Dorothea Röschmann sings fragments from Wozzeck as part of a concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker. (This concert took place in late March and I’m told there’s video available on the Berlin Phil’s Digital Concert Hall.) Deferred radio broadcast Sunday, April 14 on Kulturradio RBB. 

Acte 3er Siegfried. Producció de Barrie Kosky. Andreas Schager (Siegfried), Illona Linthwaite, (Erda) i Elisabet Strid (Brünnhilde) La Royal Opera House Covent Garden de Londres també està portant a terme el seu Ring wagnerià amb un títol per temporada. El 2023 va ser Das Rheingold, l’any passat Die Walküre i enguany toca el Siegfried. El cicle conclourà el 2026 amb Götterdämmerung, en la…

Pablo Heras-Casado. Fotografia de (c) Dario Acosta gentilesa de la web del Festival de Bayreuth Seguint les retransmissions radiofòniques del Festival de Bayreuth 2025, avui us vull parlar del Parsifal que va tenir lloc el dia 30 de juliol i que suposava el tercer any de la producció de Jay Scheib que dirigeix el director granadí Pablo Heras-Casado i que es repetirà en el pròxim festival, també…

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