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2020-07-05 11:31:53
A Life On-Line: Dreaming of the Silver Screen in Montpellier, Weber's Euryanthe in Vienna, Tippett's The Ice Break in Birmingham,
[…] Hall, one on of the things he mentioned was Ted Huffman's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream which debuted in Montpellier last year and travelled to the Deutsche Oper, Berlin this January. We caught up with the production from Montpellier on OperaVision. James Hall & Florie Valiquette were Oberon and Tytania, Thomas Atkins, Matthew Durkan, Roxana Constantinescu, Marie-Adeline Henry were the Lovers, Dominic Barberi, Nicholas Crawley, Paul Curievici, Daniel Grice, Colin Judson and Nicholas Merryweather were the mechanicals with Richard Wiegold and Polly Leech as the Theseus and Hippolyta and the American actor Nicholas Bruder as Puck. Tito Muñoz conducted. Impressively, the cast were not all Anglophone, nor presumably were the boys of the Chœur Opéra Junior - Classe Opéra. Huffman's production was very stylish, with minimal set. The fairies were all in black, white and grey, variations on 1930s formal outfits with a distinct whiff of the silver […]
2019-03-03 17:57:00
Bussey Building, Peckham Robin Hood – Nicholas Merryweather Joanna – Lorna Anderson Marian – Siân Cameron Little John – Oliver Brignall Will Scarlett – Cliff Zammit Stevens The Boy – William Barter-Sheppard Polly Graham (director) April Dalton (designs) Claire Childs (lighting) Berrak Dyer (conductor) The Opera Story has given birth to a new opera by a young composer and young creative team each year in Peckham since it was founded, three years ago. Unable to attend previous productions, I was eager to hear what was made of Robin Hood, with libretto by Zoe Palmer and Rebecca Hurst, and score by Dani Howard. As with so many essays in the genre from Jacopo Peri’s Dafne onwards, an existing story has been taken and modified. Intrinsically, the idea has much to recommend it: delving beneath the surface of the legend to ask whether Robin Hood and his merry […]
2019-03-01 08:16:08
A very modern Robin Hood: Dani Howard's new opera at The Opera Story
Dani Howard: Robin Hood - Oliver Brignall, Cliff Zammit Stevens, Nicholas Merryweather - The Opera Story (Photo Robert Workman) Dani Howard Robin Hood; Nicholas Merryweather, Lorna Anderson, Sian Cameron, dir: Polly Graham, cond: Berrak Dyer; The Opera Story at CLF Art Cafe Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 February 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Dani Howard's passionate music overcomes a schematic libretto in this striking re-invention of the folk taleHaving given use new operas based on the fairy tales of Snow White in 2017 [see my review] and Goldilocks and the Three Bears mashed up with the Three Little Pigs in 2018 [see my review], The Opera Story returned to the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham on 27 February 2019 with a very modern operatic take on the folk-tale of Robin Hood with music by Dani Howard and a libretto by Zoe Palmer and Rebecca Hurst. Directed by Polly Graham, […]
2018-09-19 09:02:49
The other Cinderella: Bampton Classical Opera's revival of Isouard's Cendrillon
Isouard: Cendrillon - Nicholas Merryweather, Jenny Stafford, Benjamin Durrant, Aoife O'Sullivan - Bampton Classical Opera Nicolo Isouard Cendrillon; Kate Howden, Aoife O'Sullivan, Jenny Stafford, Nicholas Merryweather, Bradley Smith, Benjamin Durrant, Alistair Ollerenshaw, dir: Jeremy Gray, Chroma, cond: Harry Sever Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 September 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) A Cinderella opera-comique from a French Maltese composer is an intriguing re-discovery from Bampton Isouard: Cendrillon - Nicholas Merryweather, Kate Howden Bampton Classical Opera Nicolo Isouard (1775-1818) is not a well known name and Bampton Classical Opera's performances of his opera Cendrillon this Summer were probably the work's UK premiere. The company brought the opera to St John's Smith Square on Tuesday 18 September 2018 in a production directed and designed by Jeremy Gray with costumes by Jess Iliff. Kate Howden played Cendrillon with Aoife O'Sullivan and Jenny Stafford as her step-sisters, Clorinde […]
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