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2019-06-20 17:22:00
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera, 19 June 2019
Royal Opera House Images: (C) ROH 2019/Clive Barda Boris Godunov – Bryn Terfel Andrey Schchelkalov – Boris Pinkhasovich Nikitch – Jeremy White Mityukha – Adrian Clarke Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky – Roger Honeywell Pimen – Matthew Rose Grigory Otrepiev – David Butt Philip Hostess of the Inn – Anne Marie Gibbons Varlaam – John Tomlinson Missail – Harry Nicoll Frontier Guard – Alan Ewing Xenia – Haegee Lee Xenia’s Nurse – Fiona Kimm Fyodor – Joshua Abrams Boyar – Christopher Lemmings Holy Fool – Sam Furness Richard Jones (director) Miriam Buethner (set designs) Nicky Gillibrand (costumes) Mimi Jordan Sherin (lighting) Ben Wright, Danielle Urbas (movement) Gerard Jones (associate director) Trinity Boys’ Choir Royal Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Marc Albrecht (conductor) Dmitri (David Butt Philip ) and Pimen (Matthew […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-06-10 16:12:35
ENO chief on Brexit
Sir Peter Jonas shared his views today with Die Zeit: Can nations commit collective suicide? It is possible and the prospect of Brexit shows us, not for the first time in history, that humans can behave like Lemmings charging headlong to a fatal cliff top in mass hysteria. Brexit: no thank you! Do Brits really wish for Boris, simply a more likeable and brainier version of Donald Trump, as leader? Are they nostalgic for a Britain of the 1950’s and early 60’s? Do they really want a return to a disunited Europe with the malignant instability that cursed it with uncertainty and conflict over centuries? Do they really hanker after that “Little Britain” mentality encouraging insularity and enabling bulldog jingoism a la Farage to have its day? No – the best of Britain could and should be the best of Europe: freedom, understanding, European cultural values, tolerance and diversity. […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-01-20 23:07:48
Have We Reached PeakTV Yet?
“Counting television series is like counting Lemmings. Hopefully they won’t all run off a cliff and plunge to their deaths in the ocean.”
2015-06-07 19:58:20
ici Among books I read last year were the biography of PAULINE KAEL: LIFE IN THE DARK by Brian Kellow and BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER by Amy Chua. I thought to write about the Kael book, but I could go on forever about Kael, and so I decided to save it for another day. On Chua’s book I have only a few things to say, so I might as well get it over with. I hadn’t heard of Amy Chua until last year when I came upon a post by the Blogger Named Ernest, which led to a spirited discussion among regular readers. Blogger Named Ernest seemed more approving than critical of Chua’s approach to education. Though a member of the liberal elite, Chua, it turns out, tends toward political incorrectness—or as such things are possible within […]
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