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2022-07-11 18:13:00
The Blue Woman, Royal Opera, 6 July 2022
Image:Camilla Greenwell, ROHLinbury Studio TheatreWoman 1 – Elaine Mitchener Woman 2 – Lucy Schaufer Woman 3 – Gweneth Ann RandWoman 4 – Rosie MiddletonCellos – Louise McMonagle, Su-a Lee, Tamaki Sugimoto, Clare O’ConnellPercussionist – Angela Wai-Nok Hui Actor – Eve Ponsonby Voice-over Artist – Eleanor HendersonKatie Mitchell (director)Lizzie Clachan (designs)Emma Doherty (assistant director)James Farncombe (lighting)Grant Gee (video)Ellie Horne (dramaturgy)Matthew Fairclough (sound design)Jessica Cottis (music director)Jamie Man (conductor)What is opera? It may seem self-indulgent to begin by repeating, rehearsing, even reheating that question. It both matters and does not. The Tête a Tête Festival has surely shown London opera-goers that opera can be pretty much anything one wants it to be. And that, I think, is the point here. One may think The Blue Woman as much a theatre piece or even an installation as an opera, but does it matter? In some cases, it might—or at least might be interesting. This […]
2022-02-01 20:16:00
Royal Opera House Theodora – Julia Bullock Irene – Joyce DiDonato Didymus – Jakub Józef Orliński Septimius – Ed Lyon Valens – Gyula Orendt Marcus – Thando Mjandana Actors and dancers – Aquira Bailey, Browne, Ben Clifford, Sarah Northgraves, David Rawlins, Holly Weston, Kelly VeeRoyal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseHarry Bicket (conductor) Katie Mitchell (director)Chloe Lamford (set designs)Sussie Juhlin-Wallén (costumes)James Farncombe (lighting)Sarita Piotrowski (movement) ROH Theodora 2022, (c) Camilla Greenwell Theodora received its first performances at Covent Garden in 1750. Now, at last, Handel’s oratorio came home, albeit staged—and in a staging Handel, Thomas Morrell, their singers and their audience might have had difficulty in understanding. That qualification is, of course, irrelevant as only a truism can be, for much of we might do would be largely incomprehensible to eighteenth-century London, let alone fourth-century Antioch. The question, as ever, is how performance—which […]
2021-09-26 14:05:58
Anglais - Ariadne auf Naxos at Liceu: Josep Pons’ Good Strauss
[…] Antonio López, baritone. Samantha Hankey, mezzosoprano. Nikolai Schukoff, tenor. Josep Fadó, tenor. Roger Padullés, tenor. Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, tenor. David Lagares, bass-baritone. Elena Sancho Pereg, soprano. Miina-Liisa Värëla, soprano. Benjamin Appl, baritone. Sonia de Munck, soprano. Anaïs Masllorens, mezzosoprano. Núria Vilà, soprano. Vicenç Esteve, tenor. Alex Rosen, bass. Juan Noval-Moro, tenor. Orchestra of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Josep Pons, conductor. Katie Mitchell, stage director. Eloise Lally, revival. Martin Crimp, additional texts. Chloe Lamford, set design. James Farncombe, lighting design. Sarah Blenkinsop, costume design. Co-production by Gran Teatre del Liceu, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Finnish National Opera & Ballet, Royal Danish Oper. Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2021-04-17 11:30:32
[…] great numbers, such as the Alabama Song, but also a display of life at its most glum and depraved. All credit to the British director and Jette Parker Young Artist Isabelle Kettle, to the entire JPYA cast and members of the ROH orchestra, conducted by Michael Papadopoulos, for making these hitherto intractable works so fruitful. Wit and insight took precedence over easy, wearisome sleaze, with stylish visual solutions from the designer Lizzie Clachan (lighting James Farncombe).
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