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2022-08-09 08:27:00
Reviews of the National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company at Buxton
[…] the piece. She kept all the original script and music, but sent us on a kind of time-warp to the 1930s, where, even if professional pirates still looked the same, Major-General Stanley’s daughters were beach belles in Act One and appeared in fluffy nighties for Act Two, and lovers Mabel and Frederic at one point transformed into Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. There was plenty of dancing by a gifted cast and chorus (choreographer Eleanor Strutt), and just a few knowing tweaks of the familiar lines and situations. I loved it, and the Opera House audience hardly ever stopped laughing. The music was in the expert hands of John Andrews (of Red Squirrel Opera fame) and the playing by the festival’s own National Festival Orchestra was unimpeachable – a small but well balanced ensemble, under a conductor who knew that getting the words across was the thing that mattered most. […]
2021-12-06 10:07:06
Zest and energy: New Sussex Opera revives Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde
[…] of Music on Sunday 5 December 2021 of New Sussex Opera's production of Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde, directed and designed by Anthony Baker, conducted by Toby Purser with Mark Saberton as Cabriolo, Chiara Vinci as Zanetta, Meriel Cunningham as Regina, Anthony Flaum as Tremolini, Miriam Sharrad as Paola, Peter Martin as Prince Raphael, Giles Davies as Dr Elastoplast, Paul Featherstone as Prince Casimir and St Paul's Sinfonia. Lighting was by Jo Underwood, choreography by Eleanor Strutt, and the work was performed in a new English version by Anthony Baker and a new orchestration by James Widden. One of the reasons that Offenbach's operas are neglected is that there are so many. In 1869 alone, he wrote Vert-Vert for the Opera Comique, La diva for the Bouffes-Parisiens, La princesse de Trébizonde for Baden-Baden, and Les brigands for the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. And for its Paris premiere in December of that year, he […]
2018-10-30 16:06:00
Metropolitan Opera – Muhly’s Marnie. October 27, 2018.
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Balcony (Seat D106, $79.) Story. Marnie is a thief who goes about stealing from her employers using different identities. She works at the accounting firm Crombie & Strutt where customer and widower Mark Rutland is attracted to her. After she leaves the accounting firm she goes to Halcyon Printing, owned by Mark. Mark doesn’t seem to recognize her. Mark’s brother Terry also works at the firm and makes a pass at Marnie. Mark catches Marnie in the act of breaking into the company safe, and threatens to turn her in unless she marries him. When she refuses sex with Mark on their honeymoon, he assaults her, causing her to slash her wrist. To get Marnie to see an analyst, Mark agrees to stable her beloved horse Forio on his property. They go on a fox hunt, Marnie is thrown from the horse and Mark […]
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