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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-04-13 12:00:23
The week in classical: Carmen; National Youth Chamber Choir/ OAE/Jeannin; LSO/ Roth review – from Habanera to doo-wop
Royal Opera House; St Martin-in-the-Fields; Barbican, LondonAigul Akhmetshina steals the show in Damiano Michieletto’s uneven new 70s-set Bizet. And in a good week for world premieres, four composers take on Handel while the London Symphony Orchestra channels death metalYoung women strut around in hot pants and read their fate in the cards. Listless men in police uniform sweat, drool and rule. Spain, in the Royal Opera House’s
2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
[…] to a small piece of wood.' The work began with short, vivid gestures from the strings, with the space around the gestures playing an important role. As these gestures assembled into a high energy structure the work became visceral and dramatic. Throughout the piece, even during quieter moments, it was these string gestures that dominated and Weir achieved some striking effects by combining multiple layers of repeating motifs. Conductor Michael Papadopoulos is an alumnus of the Royal Opera House's Jette Parker Young Artist Programme and he joins the conducting staff at Vienna's Volksoper in September. He drew a disciplined, vivid and at times visceral performance from the players despite apparently using only small, precise gestures.Performed without a conductor, Britten's Serenade for tenor, horn and strings featured tenor Nicky Spence and horn-player Ben Goldscheider centre stage and throughout the work the two men made the piece about their duet, rather than a […]
2024-04-08 10:23:47
Aigul Akhmetshina in the title role has a voice that fills the London auditorium with sound and colour
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-04-07 10:45:38
Royal Opera House, LondonConjuring the oppressive Mediterranean heat and the claustrophobia of a fraying close-knit community, Damiano Michieletto’s new production of Bizet’s tragedy is rich with drama and potentWith its thorny sexual politics, a new production of Carmen can be a minefield. Prosper Mérimée’s original novella treats his fiercely independent central character with respect, but over the years the heroine’s brutal murder on show in Bizet’s opera has often embraced the voyeuristic characteristics of the bullfight taking place offstage.As in his Olivier award-winning Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, Damiano Michieletto deflects some of that by creating a sense of a close-knit community fraying at the edges. Carmen’s tragedy becomes just another small town calamity, a symptom of social claustrophobia heightened by the oppressive Mediterranean heat. Indeed, there are numerous echoes of Michieletto’s former production, from the revolving stage to the tufts of grass thrusting up through the concrete.
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