Tag: Royal Opera House
Benjamin’s ‘Lessons’ – lamed by a disastrous libretto
Lessons in Love and Violence, Royal Opera House George Benjamin’s last opera, Written on Skin, has had such glittering international success – notching up more productions per year than Bri... Read MoreLady Macbeth of Mtsensk – Richard Jones’s superb version
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 MoreThe ROH ‘Macbeth’ – and the galvanising Anna Netrebko
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‘From the House of the Dead’ – a travesty by Warlikowski
From the House of the Dead, Royal Opera House, 7.3.18 Dostoevsky’s novel From the House of the Dead was based on his searing experiences in a Siberian prison. Janacek’s opera faithfully fol... Read MoreMonteverdi at the Roundhouse
The Return of Ulysses, Roundhouse, 9.1.18 Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is an ecstatically melodious succession of recitatives, duets, and arias telling of war, exile, love, and reven... Read MoreMalin Bystrom – the perfect Salome
Salome, Royal Opera House, 10.1.18 Richard Strauss based his Salome on Oscar Wilde’s play (written in French and banned in Britain) which turned on two taboo sexual obsessions: Herod’s for ... Read MoreMichieletto’s superb Cav and Pag
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Royal Opera House, 2.12.17 Damiano Michieletto’s production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana with Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci looks like becoming one of Covent... Read MoreSemiramide at Covent Garden
Semiramide, Royal Opera House, 22.11.17 Rossini’s Semiramide premiered in Venice in 1823, and throughout the nineteenth century it was a popular vehicle for great voices, but in the twentieth... Read MoreKatie Mitchell’s ‘Lucia’
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House, 8.11.17 Donizetti composed his Scottish tragedy nearly two centuries ago, yet real life has only recently caught up with it. Lucia loves Edgardo, but is ... Read More- 3 of 4
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