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2023-11-13 07:42:00
Plenty of food for thought & some terrific singing: Oliver Mears' staging of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera with a towering performance from Allan Clayton in the title role
[…] Opera House (Photo: Marc Brenner)It was thus with great interest that we caught the second performance of Oliver Mears' new production of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera House. Laurence Cummings conducted the orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Allan Clayton as Jephtha, Alice Coote as Storge, Jennifer France as Iphis, Cameron Shahbazi as Hamor, and Brindley Sherratt as Zebul. Sets were by Simon Lima Holdsworth, costumes by Ilona Karas, video by Sander Loonen, lighting by Fabiana Piccioli and movement by Anna Morrissey. In fact, Mears was working with the same team as his production of Verdi's Rigoletto.Holdsworth's sets were based around two massive stone panels with writing on them, these moved, reconfiguring the space so that the more intimate scenes were far more acoustically sympathetic, but the big visual coup was that as well as the Israelites we saw their enemies, the Ammonites. These Israelites were a sort of religious sect, […]
2020-01-23 01:23:00
[…] Antoun, John Chest, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Hera Hyesang Park. Speranza Scappucci, conductor; Michael Cavanagh, director; Erhard Rom, set designer; Constance Hoffman, costume designer; Jane Cox, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. THE HANDMAID’S TALE (Poul Ruders) Oct. 29-Nov. 22. Sasha Cooke, Michaela Martens, Sarah Cambidge, James Creswell, Abigail Levis, Katrina Galka, Rhoslyn Jones, Nicole Birkland, Sara Couden, Brenton Ryan, Matthew DiBattista. Thomas Søndergård, conductor; John Fulljames, production; Chloe Lamford, set designer; Christina Cunningham, costume designer; Fabiana Piccioli, lighting designer; Will Duke, projection designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. LA BOHÈME (Giacomo Puccini) Nov. 15-Dec. 6. Maria Agresta/Aurelia Florian, Michael Fabiano/Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Amina Edris/Janai Brugger, Artur Rucinski/Anthony Clark Evans, Soloman Howard, Dale Travis. Nicola Luisotti, conductor; John Caird, production; Shawna Lucey, revival director; David Farley, production designer; Michael James Clark, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Gioachino Rossini) April 25-May 16, 2021. Lucas Meachem, Daniela Mack, Stephanie Lauricella, Levy […]
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2016-05-20 16:00:13
Avanti Coppola: Hollywood director makes opera debut tomorrow
It’s La Traviata in Rome, directed by Sofia Coppola, entire run of 15 performances sold out. Jader Bignamini conducts. Francesca Dotto and Maria Grazia Schiavo are double-cast as Violetta. Antonio Poli, Arturo Chacon-Cruz and Matteo Desole alternate as Alfredo. The sets are by Nathan Crowley, a British production designer who worked on Batman films. Valentino’s chief designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli have done the costumes.
2015-12-08 00:23:00
Ars Minerva, the opera company that put on this year's wonderful La Cleopatra, has announced its next production: Le Amazzoni nelle Isole Fortunate (The Amazons on the Fortunate Island) Music by Carlo Pallavicino Libretto by Francesco Maria Piccioli (1679 - Teatro Contarini delle Vergini - Venezia) May 21 and 22, 2016Marines' Memorial Theater609 Sutter St. at MasonSan Francisco, CA This should be a lot of fun! And undoubtedly the music will be great.
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