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Month: April 2018

Frederic Rzewski, Igor Levit, Annette Morreau – and the creation of a new work

Posted on April 14, 2018June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
Igor Levit, Wigmore Hall It isn’t often critics put their money where their mouth is and commission new works, but that’s what Annette Morreau has generously done – in tandem with the Wigmor... Read More

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – Richard Jones’s superb version

Posted on April 13, 2018June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Royal Opera House   Like Thomas Hardy with his condemned Tess – ‘a pure woman’ – Dmitry Shostakovich saw the merchant’s wife Katerina Ismailova, aka his double-... Read More

Chineke! ushers in a triumphant makeover for the Queen Elizabeth Hall

Posted on April 10, 2018June 7, 2018 by Michael Church
Chineke! Queen Elizabeth Hall   Over the last half-century the outbuildings of the Royal Festival Hall have been threatened with one grandiose makeover after another: people have always been ambi... Read More

Fiona Shaw’s ‘Figaro’ – saved by superb singing

Posted on April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 by Michael Church
The Marriage of Figaro, ENO   Fiona Shaw’s production of The Marriage of Figaro didn’t fire on all cylinders when it premiered, and after its second revival there are still problems, some of ... Read More

The ROH ‘Macbeth’ – and the galvanising Anna Netrebko

Posted on April 2, 2018April 7, 2018 by Michael Church
Macbeth, Royal Opera House Michael Church After two of the most abysmal new productions I have ever seen – From the House of the Dead at Covent Garden, and La traviata at the Coliseum – a revival ... Read More

Turnage’s ‘Coraline’ – promising, but still a work in progress

Posted on April 2, 2018April 2, 2018 by Michael Church
Coraline, Barbican From the composer of the viscerally-shocking Greek and the in-yer-face Anna Nicole, now comes a ‘family friendly’ opera: Coraline marks yet another twist in the creative progres... Read More

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