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Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Opera, 8 July 2023
Royal Opera HouseFigaro – Mattia Olivieri Susanna – Siobhan Stagg Bartolo – Maurizio Muraro Marcellina – Dorothea Röschmann Cherubino – Anna Stéphany Count Almaviva – Stéphane Degout Don Basilio – Krystian Adam Countess Almaviva – Hrachuhí Bassénz Antonio – Jeremy White Don Curzio – Peter Bronder Barbarina – Sarah Dufresne Two Bridesmaids – Helen Withers, Miranda WestcottDavid McVicar (director)Tanya McCallin (designs)Paule Constable (lighting)Leah Hausman (movement)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseJoana Mallwitz (conductor)Images: Clive BardaCherubino (Anna Stéphany), Figaro (Mattia Olivieri), Susanna (Siobhan Stagg) ‘Figaro is the opera that a critic sees most often, and it is right that it should be.’ An opera critic I greatly admire wrote those words concerning a relatively early outing for this production in 2008. Michael Tanner proceeded to commend Charles Mackerras’s conducting of that revival of David McVicar’s staging, first seen in the Mozart Year of 2006, comparing it favourably […]
2018-04-28 09:19:18
Thrilling revival: Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Covent Garden
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Brandon Jovanovich, Eva-Maria Westbroek© ROH, 2018. Photographed by Clive Barda Shostakovich Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk; Eva-Maria Westbroek, John Daszak, Brandon Jovanovich, John Tomlinson, dir: Richard Jones/Elaine Kidd, cond: Antonio Pappano; Royal Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 April 2018 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) It is a relief to find a production which does full justice to the mercurial variety and caustic scherzo which is Shostakovich's operaRichard Jones' production of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk has returned to the Royal Opera House (seen Friday 27 April 2018) after a gap of a dozen years, with the production in fine form indeed, and with Eva-Maria Westbroek and John Tomlinson returning to the roles of Katerina Ismailova and Boris Ismailov with John Daszak as Zinovy Ismailov, Brandon Jovanovich as Sergey, Rosie Aldridge as Aksinya and Peter Bronder as the shabby peasant. Jones' […]
2017-06-08 07:19:00
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat OO112, $59.25). Das Rheingold(1851-54) by Wagner (1813-83) CastWotan – Eric Owens, Fricka – Jamie Barton, Alberich – Christopher Purves, Loge – Russell Thomas, Erda -Kelley O’Connor, Fasolt – Morris Robinson, Fafner – Stephen Milling, Freia – Rachel Willis-Sorensen, Froh – Brian Jagde, Donner – Christian Van Horn, Mime – Peter Bronder, Woglinde – Jennifer Zetlan, Wellgunde – Jennifer Johnson Cano, Flosshilde – Tamara Mumford. I had to make an emergency trip to Australia and returned earlier than I expected. Some seats were still available for tonight’s concert. The $55 Orchestra 4 tickets were discounted to $52 for subscribers, yet with extra fees they ended up being $59.25 each. We did get seats towards the end of the main hall, but they were fine. The acoustics were great, we could hear most of singing clearly. With binoculars it […]
2017-06-05 18:59:38
In the River Rhine. In it.
[…] James Morris, with his bel canto background. Owens does not fill out the spaciousness of the score. In Owens’s old role of Alberich, Christopher Purves, another Houston alum, made an impressive local debut. This character experiences the widest range of emotions in Rheingold; it calls for dramatics more than voice, and Purves gave us both. His sneers were never unmusical, his curse was unnerving. One becomes curious about his Don Giovanni, upcoming in London. Peter Bronder was effective as Mime. Russell Thomas was one of those Loges who eats up the stage like a hearth fire out of control. The insinuating lyricism of his “snake-oil” sell of the Rheingold’s appeal won over the gods and the audience Wagnerians. Brian Jagde sang a capable Froh, Christian Van Horn an impressively surly Donner, Rachel Willis-Sørensen a statuesque but unexciting Freia—it’s difficult to believe she was as helpless before the Giants’ lust as […]
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