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2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] by falling down a cliff hurrying to get to his boat - to a great outcry. What offers this production so much depth and interest are the strong and effective crowd scenes created by movement director, Maxine Braham. For instance, the opening scene was more than striking packed by local misfits, busybodies and all those annoying types crowding the back of the courtroom to witness the local coroner and drunkard, Swallow (sung cunningly by Clive Bayley) conducting an inquest into the death of William Spode, Grimes’ first apprentice, who died in his fishing boat. Although acquitted of any wrongdoing, the ‘locals’ thought otherwise and were out for his blood. The cast is further strengthened by Adam Sullivan as Bob Boles (fisherman and Methodist), David Soar (Hobson, the carrier) and Ronald Samm (Revd Horace Adams) while Alex Otterburn (Ned Keene) plays the role of apothecary with a touch of deviousness while […]
2022-06-21 17:45:00
The Theatre in the Woods Mr Brouček – Peter HoareMálinka, Etherea, Kunka – Fflur Wyn Mazal, Bounzincek, Petrik, Svatopluk – Mark Le Brocq Würfl, Paycek, Councillor – Andrew Shore Sacristan, Dudcek, Domšík – Clive Bayley Kedruta – Anne-Marie Owens Spotcek, Vojta, Raincek, Mirosla – Adrian Thompson Postdatedcek – Jonathan Kennedy Child Prodigy – Pasquale Orchard Spotcek – Robin Horgan Farty – Benjie del Rosario Taborite I – Toki Hamano Arty, Taborite I – Marcus Swietlicki Dancers – Lauren Bridle, Bridget Lappin, Arianne Morgan, Luke Murphy, Jay Yule David Pountney (director) Leslie Travers (designs) Marie-Jean Lecca (costumes) Tim Mitchell (lighting) Lynne Hockney (choreography) BBC Concert Orchestra George Jackson (conductor) Bounzincek (Mark Le Brocq) and an artist on the moonImages: Marc Brenner Hats off to Grange Park Opera for unquestionably the best of the four ‘country house’ operas I have seen so far this season. First, and perhaps most important, with respect to […]
2022-06-19 09:23:44
Madcap theatre & magnificent music: Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at Grange Park Opera
[…] in 2007.That 1992 performance was directed by David Pountney, and Pountney was again at the helm for Grange Park Opera's enterprising staging of Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček (seen Saturday 18 June 2022). Conducted by George Jackson with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and with designs by Leslie Travers and Marie-Jeanne Lecca, choreography by Lynne Hockney, lighting by Tim Mitchell, the performance featured Peter Hoare as Brouček, plus Fflur Wyn, Mark Le Brocq, Andrew Shore, and Clive BayleyJanacek's route to creating opera was neither direct nor straightforward. He wrote Jenufa between 1894 and 1903 (in fact his third opera), it premiered 1904 but Janacek revised it in 1908 and 1915, and the work became popularised in a version not the composer's, ironing out the perceived eccentricities. That he was trying for a different type of opera is seen by his next one, Osud (1903-1905, revised 1906-1907) which has a libretto by one of his […]
2022-04-02 00:00:00
[…] a very lean orchestral sound and very pointed rhythms. Fischer-Dieskau conducts in a somewhat more lyrical fashion, not glossing over the rhythmic elements of the music but not making them the focus of his reading. Fischer-Dieskau also does a splendid job with the two Kammermusik suites, which he (oddly) performed in reverse sequence. This is a valuable and fascinating album well worth getting as a memento of a great singer’s great conducting. 2016 Lynn René Bayley You can read another review here
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