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2023-09-01 07:15:00
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Wake-Edwards has started a new production company MIMO with mezzo-soprano Simone Ibbett-Brown, conductor André Callegaro, director & writer Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong, and composer Ben Comeau. On 15 and 16 September 2023, MIMO will be premiering FEAST a new one-woman show starring Wake-Edwards which is described as an opera with cabaret seasoning, interweaving pre-existing art song and jazz from Berlioz to Billy Strayhorn, Kurt Weill to Errollyn Wallen, as well as new music from Ben Comeau.FEAST tells the story of Jessica who is throwing a dinner party to impress her boss, with a promotion on the horizon. She just has to hold her nerve for one more night, but her façade is wearing ever thinner. Is she really who she says she is? For that matter, is anyone around the dinner table? Is a job like this ever truly free from dishonesty?This is a tale that reminds us that forgetting ourselves can be a […]
2022-06-25 11:25:35
Poetic drama & real musicality: highly imaginative Rusalka from Jack Furness at Garsington with Natalya Romaniw as a compelling water nymph
Dvorak: Rusalka - Natalya Romaniw - Garsington Opera (Photo Clive Barda)Antonin Dvorak: Rusalka; Natalya Romaniw, John Findon, Henry Waddington, Christine Rice, Sky Ingram, director: Jack Furness, Philharmonia Orchestra, conductor: Douglas Boyd; Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Reviewed 24 June 2022 (★★★★★)Musically superb, dramatically convincing and highly poetic account of Dvorak's fairy-tale that combined a poetic approach with a mining of the work's darker element and a highly imaginative staging Garsington Opera planned its production of Dvorak’s Rusalka for 2020 with Natalya Romaniw in the title role. Cancelled and re-scheduled for 2022, thankfully still with Romaniw, the production debuted last week with a new director at the helm. We caught Jack Furness’ new production of Dvorak’s Rusalka at Garsington Opera on Friday 24 June 2022. Douglas Boyd conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra with Natalya Romaniw as Rusalka. Illness the cast meant that John Findon (previously Hajny) sang the Prince, Henry Waddington sang Vodnik […]
2021-11-02 09:06:07
Anglais - Lisette Oropesa Dazzles as Violetta in La traviata at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata of 1853 is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world today, and the Royal Opera’s current season is putting a special focus on the work. From October 2021 to April 2022 there will be no less than twenty-five performances featuring six different sopranos in the main role of Violetta. The initial run, which ends on 17 November 2021, will see Lisette Oropesa, Kristina Mkhitaryan and Anush Hovhannisyan play the lead, while Angel Blue, Pretty Yende and Hrachuhí Bassénz share the honours next April. Other parts will also be played by several people over the run, while the various performances will be conducted by Antonello Manacorda, Paul Wynne Griffiths, Renato Balsadonna and Giacomo Sagripanti. La Traviata, The Royal Opera ; © 2021 ROH/Photo by Tristam Kenton Based on Alexandre Dumas, fils’s play La Dame aux camélias, […]
2021-09-26 11:59:15
An engaging young Papageno and fine international cast, David McVicar's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte is in fine health at Covent Garden
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Royal Opera House Mozart Die Zauberflöte; Daniel Behle, Salome Jicia, Huw Montague Rendall, Krzysztof Baczyk, Aleksandra Olczyk, dir: David McVicar/Daniel Dooner, cond: Hartmut Haenchen; Royal Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 25 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) David McVicar's now quite venerable production is still in radiant health, and this run featured the fine house debut of baritone Huw Montague Rendall as a very engaging PapagenoThe Royal Opera's current production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte debuted in 2003 and somehow we have so far managed to miss it, despite revival on an almost biennial basis. The current revival of David McVicar's production is directed by Daniel Dooner and performances feature a complex web of double casting. On Saturday 25 October 2021, we saw Daniel Behle at Tamino, Salome Jicia as Pamina, Krzysztof Baczyk as Sarastro, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Aleksandra Olczyk as the […]
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