Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne festival; BBC Prom 44 | Classical review
Switzerland; Royal Albert Hall, LondonFringed by dozens of tiny flickering night-lights, the stage of Lucerne's sleek white lakeside concert hall was transformed last weekend into a grey, shambolic dungeon for a semi-staging of Fidelio, conducted by Claudio Abbado with his elite Lucerne Festival Orchestra and a dream line-up of soloists led by Nina Stemme and that most serious of star tenors, Jonas Kaufmann.Beethoven's opera about political freedom and conjugal love was the opening event of the ...
Guardian Music — Switzerland; Royal Albert Hall, LondonFringed by dozens of tiny flickering night-lights, the stage of Lucerne's sleek white lakeside concert hall was transformed last wee... more info