Tag: Royal Opera House
Katie 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 MoreLa tragedie de Carmen at Wilton’s
La tragédie de Carmen, Wilton’s Music Hall, London Wilton’s Music Hall is a charming and perfectly-preserved remnant of London’s historic East End, and it’s still serving the purpose f... Read MoreEn passant: a woeful ENO Aida, but a triumphant Barber… Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s first recital… Faust and Melnikov play Mozart…and Covent Garden revives its Vepres siciliennes…
Aida, Coliseum An opera house needs a story to launch the season, and ENO had three. First, their chief executive had suddenly announced her premature departure. Second, Aida would be the first chance... Read MoreEn passant: Graham Vick’s ‘Mitridate’ – still original after 26 years… and the evergreen Turandot… and an interesting Proms experiment
Mitridate, re di Ponto, Royal Opera house, London Nobody ever talks about Graham Vick’s 26-year-old production of Mitridate, re di Ponto – it seemed to have sunk without trace – but Coven... Read MoreEn passant: ROH Don Carlo…Two Glyndebourne hits…David Helfgott returns…A perfect Figaro at Garsington…
Don Carlo, Covent Garden, 12.5.17 With its God-given melodies, ravishing orchestration, and intricate but whizzing plot, Verdi’s Don Carlo ticks all the boxes, including that of topicality 150 years... Read MoreEn passant: Phantasm…ROH Rosenkavalier…Trevor Pinnock…Cuarteto Casals…ROH Traviata…Miller’s Rigoletto…Ekaterina Semenchuk
Why should the sound of a consort of four viols be more moving than that of a string quartet? It goes against all logic. With its flat back, and played like a Middle-Eastern spike-fiddle, the v... Read More‘Nothing’, Glyndebourne, 2016
A youth opera about adolescent alienation? We’ve watched too many of them founder in their own plodding worthiness, and the heart sank at the prospect of yet another, particularly one travelling und... Read MoreOedipe at the Royal Opera House: a revelation
Given its accessibility and musical magnificence, it seems extraordinary that Enescu’s Oedipe – premiered in Paris in 1936 – should have had to wait until now for its British premiere. But... Read More- 4 of 4
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