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Modernising Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea from English Touring Opera in a radical new version by Yshani Perinpanayagam
[…] Lucano too? Both Siddiqui and Jones made the duet remarkably seductive.The sole remaining comic character was Amy J Payne's Arnalta. Payne was wonderfully trenchant and her advice to Poppea was given with strength and wit but never designed to be funny. Payne was gentle in the lullaby and wonderfully combined word and music in her final, great solo.The smaller roles were all well taken. Zahid Siddiqui was a soldier in the first scene whilst Richard Pinkstone was a soldier and a stylish Liberto in Seneca's death scene. Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea - Theo Perry (Mercury), Sandeep Gurrapadi (Scribe), Keith Pun (Love) - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert SmithAs arranger, I felt that there was a bit too much of Yshani Perinpanayagam's personality in the music than I would have wished, the version was too interventionist. But then, as conductor, I felt that Perinpanayagam was far too inclined to dwell […]
2020-11-28 09:09:27
From Handel's contemporaries to a forgotten Malcolm Arnold opera: I chat to conductor John Andrews about reviving neglected music
[…] Lyon, Mark Wilde, Graeme Broadbent, BBC Concert Orchestra, John AndrewsResonus Classics - see my reviewAvailable from Amazon, and from Hive.co.uk. John Andrews on Planet Hugill: Arthur Sullivan: Haddon Hall - Ed Lyon, Henry Waddington, Adrian Thompson, Ben McAteer, Donald Maxwell, Sarah Tynan, Fiona Kimm, Angela Simkin, BBC Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra, John Andrews; Dutton Epoch - see my review Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail - Lucy Hall, Nazan Fikret, John-Colyn Gyeantey, Richard Pinkstone, Matthew Stiff, Alex Andreou, dir: Stephen Medcalf, cond: John Andrews; English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire - see my review Wolf-Ferrari: Susanna's Secret - Clare Presland, Richard Burkhard, John Savurnin, dir: John Wilkie, cond: John Andrews; Opera Holland Park - see my review Thomas Arne: The Judgement of Paris - Mary Bevan, Susanna Fairbairn, Gillian Ramm, Ed Lyon, Anthony Gregory, the Brook Street Band, John Andrews; Dutton Epoch - see my review […]
2019-10-12 09:02:00
Review of English Touring Opera's The Seraglio at Buxton Opera House
[…] girls and two guys) represent a crowd.That’s one side of a two-part set placed on a central revolve, which does its job very well. The need to get eight voices on stage for choruses brings the occasional incongruity (near the beginning Pedrillo, having said he’ll ‘quickly hide’, comes right back on to sing in one of them), but it’s a price you pay for opera on this scale. The principals do a fine job: Richard Pinkstone (Pedrillo) is a strong singer with a good comic gift, and John-Colyn Gyeantey brings tenderness to his tenor role; Matthew Stiff (Osmin) reaches for the low notes effectively. The girls (Lucy Hall as Konstanze and Nazan Fikret as Blonde) are very good, especially once warmed up for that feast of vocal art in the second Act. Alex Andreou delivers the spoken role of Pasha Selim with studied gravity.And John Andrews’ conducting gives us pleasant […]
2019-10-05 10:09:17
Thought provoking and engaging: Mozart's The Seraglio at English Touring Opera
Announcement for the premiere of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Burgtheater, Vienna Mozart Die Entführung aus dem Serail; Lucy Hall, Nazan Fikret, John-Colyn Gyeantey, Richard Pinkstone, Matthew Stiff, Alex Andreou, dir: Stephen Medcalf, cond: John Andrews; English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 4 October 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Mozart's singspiel in an engaging production which did not ignore the work's complexityMozart's first singspiel, Die Entführung aus dem Serail used to be a relatively regular visitor to London stages but Covent Garden has not performed the opera since the 2001 revival of Elijah Moshinsky's production with its Sidney Nolan designs, and I am not sure the last time ENO performed it. Which means we have to travel, Glyndebourne performed the work in 2015 and last year The Grange Festival unveiled a new production by John Copley [see my […]
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