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2023-10-02 06:30:00
Modernising Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea from English Touring Opera in a radical new version by Yshani Perinpanayagam
[…] Keith Pun (Love) - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert SmithThe opening, with Fortune (Elizabeth Karani), Virtue (Julia Marko) and Love (Keith Pun), was both visually and musically arresting, and Pun's engaging Love (Amor) would be ubiquitous throughout the opera along with Theo Perry's Mercury.The opening scene of Act One suffered somewhat because Feargal Mostyn-Williams as Otton seemed rather out of sorts, and he did not really find form until much later in the opera. Mostyn Williams has an attractive, soft-grained counter-tenor which suits the character and Mostyn Williams found a sense of Otton's inner strength as the drama progressed.Jessica Cale's Poppea was stylish and elegant. Strong minded, yes, but always with a considered sense of musicianship and upright bearing. Somehow, she felt far less self-serving than usual, and Cale's performance was mesmerising, she drew the eye and ear at every turn. She was finely partnered by the Nero of […]
2021-06-07 10:35:02
Family opera in Wales and young people's opera in Northern Ireland.
Will Todd: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Fflur Wyn at Opera Holland Park in 2017 (Photo Alex Brenner) Welsh National Opera is returning to live performance this Summer with Will Todd's delightful family opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, whilst Northern Ireland Opera is commissioning a new teen/young adult opera from librettist Fionnuala Kennedy and composed by Neil Martin. Welsh National Opera is performing Will Todd's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from 25 June until 3 July at the National Trust’s Dyffryn Gardens near Cardiff in the Vale of Glamorgan. The work will be performed in Martin Duncan's production originally created for Opera Holland Park (who commissioned the opera in 2013, see my review from 2015). The cast includes guest artists Fflur Wyn as Alice (a role she created with Opera Holland Park), Benjamin Bevan, Feargal Mostyn-Williams, Aoife Miskelly, and Kelvin Thomas, along with members of WNO’s Chorus also taking centre […]
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2020-10-22 10:11:46
Just in: John Adams gets a London premiere next month
English National Opera will stage John Adams’ El Niño at the London Coliseum on November 27 and 28. Singers include Nardus Williams, Jennifer Johnston, James Rutherford and three countertenors Jake Arditti, Tom Scott-Cowell and Feargal Mostyn-Williams, along with the Finchley Children’s Music Group. Martin Brabbins conducts. El Niño was premiered 20 years ago in Paris […]
2019-11-07 13:43:43
Leonardo the opera: Alex Mill's latest work debuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum
As 2019 is the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Renaissance polymath is everywhere. Alex Mills, whose imaginative opera Dear Marie Stopes debuted at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival last year [see my review], is exploring Leonardo through music and his opera Leonardo will debut at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday 9 November 2019 (when there are two performances, at 13.30 and 16;00). Alas the opera is not in one of the museum's evocative Renaissance galleries, but in the Lecture Theatre, though the acoustics there are good.In the opera Mills aims to focuses on his inner world, emotional life and sexuality, using music to fill in the many gaps that we have in our knowledge of Leonardo the man. In fact, we know fairly little about Leonardo, most of his writings are architectural and technical, and certainly there is precious little about his emotional life or […]
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