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2022-11-19 14:32:00
Linbury Studio TheatreLucretia – Anne Marie StanleyFemale Chorus – Sydney Baedke Male Chorus – Michael Gibson Tarquinius – Jolyon Loy Collatinus – Anthony Reed Junius – Kieran Rayner Bianca – Carolyn Holy Lucia – Sarah Dufresne Oliver Mears (director) Annemarie Woods (designs) DM Wood (lighting) Sarita Piotrowski (movement) Aurora Orchestra Corinna Niemeyer (conductor) This new Rape of Lucretia, seen first at Snape, now in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre, fittingly features singers from two young artists’ programmes: Britten Pears and Jette Parker. In many ways, its greatest strength is theirs—and that of the young Aurora Orchestra players too. (We tend to speak of a chamber orchestra here; were this ‘newer’ music, we should doubtless call it an ensemble.) Conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, this was an immediate, urgent performance which, like Oliver Mears’s immediate, urgent staging, was experienced to excellent, arguably heightened effect in a small theatre. For all […]
2022-02-03 08:17:50
[…] highlight what is going on elsewhere, the context in which the protagonists operate or various subtexts. This is an approach that Mitchell also employed in her 2016 production of Lucia di Lammermoor for the Royal Opera, but the wealth of activity that is frequently on display here is never excessively distracting because its pace works with that of the music. (Theodora) Julia Bullock, ROH Theodora 2022, © Camilla Greenwell_5262 With Sarita Piotrowski as the movement director, slow motion actions, which can involve the hiding, passing and pointing of guns, are used to good effect as they heighten the sense of danger, and hence the poignancy of the relevant aria. For example, with Theodora’s friend Irene singing ‘As with rosy steps the morn’ as Romans surround her threatening death or violence, it emphasises just how defiant and steadfast in her faith she is. A similar point could […]
2022-02-01 20:16:00
Royal Opera House Theodora – Julia Bullock Irene – Joyce DiDonato Didymus – Jakub Józef Orliński Septimius – Ed Lyon Valens – Gyula Orendt Marcus – Thando Mjandana Actors and dancers – Aquira Bailey, Browne, Ben Clifford, Sarah Northgraves, David Rawlins, Holly Weston, Kelly VeeRoyal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseHarry Bicket (conductor) Katie Mitchell (director)Chloe Lamford (set designs)Sussie Juhlin-Wallén (costumes)James Farncombe (lighting)Sarita Piotrowski (movement) ROH Theodora 2022, (c) Camilla Greenwell Theodora received its first performances at Covent Garden in 1750. Now, at last, Handel’s oratorio came home, albeit staged—and in a staging Handel, Thomas Morrell, their singers and their audience might have had difficulty in understanding. That qualification is, of course, irrelevant as only a truism can be, for much of we might do would be largely incomprehensible to eighteenth-century London, let alone fourth-century Antioch. The question, as ever, is how performance—which […]
2021-07-17 12:43:00
The Cunning Little Vixen, Opera Holland Park, 13 July 2021
Images: Ali WrightVixen (Jennifer France) and Fox (Julia Sporsén) Vixen – Jennifer France Fox – Julia Sporsén Forester – Grant Doyle Forester’s Wife, Owl – Ann Taylor Schoolmaster, Mosquito – Charne Rochford Priest, Badger – John Savournin Harašta – Ashley Riches Chocholka – Harriet Eyley Lapák – Natasha Agarwal Jay, Rooster – Grace Nyandoro Woodpecker – Chloë Pardoe Innkeeper – Phillip Costovski Innkeeper’s Wife – Yolanda Grant-Thompson Pepík – Alys Mererid Roberts Frantík – Claire Ward Frog – Daniel White Caterpillar—Toby Yates Grasshopper – Ben Jardim Young Vixen – Estella Charlesworth Stephen Barlow (director) Andrew D. Edwards (designs) Rory Beaton (lighting) Sarita Piotrowski (choreography, movement) Opera Holland Park Chorus (chorus master: Dominic Ellis-Peckham) City of London Sinfonia Jessica Cottis (conductor) Forester (Grant Doyle), Schoolmaster (Charne Rochford) Our present condition lends us, perhaps more than ever, to think of what has led us here, how things […]
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