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2020-03-08 19:45:44
Official statement from Oman: The Royal Opera House Muscat has canceled all events and concerts for the remainder of the...
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-06-25 11:50:19
The Sultan Of Oman Is Trying To Establish A Major Opera House
He’s already got the building: the spectacular Royal Opera House, Muscat, which opened in 2011 and is reportedly the Omani capital’s second-most-popular tourist attraction. The Economist looks at Sultan Qaboos’s reasons for funding European opera and a few of the difficulties in making the form work in the conservative Arab Gulf. – The Economist
2019-02-25 08:55:24
Trapped in the underworld with a surly teenager: Gavin Higgins & Francesca Simon's The Monstrous Child
Gavin Higgins: The Monstrous Child - Royal Opera (© ROH | Stephen Cummiskey) Gavin Higgins The Monstrous Child; Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Rosie Aldridge, Tom Randle, Lucy Schaufer, Graeme Broadbent, Dan Shelvey, dir: Timothy Sheader, Aurora Orchestra, cond: Jessica Cottis; Linbury Thaatre, Royal Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 24 February 2019 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A brilliant musical re-imagining of Norse myth in a first opera, in a strikinginly visual production Marta Fontanals-Simmons (© ROH | Stephen Cummiskey) The Royal Opera has followed up Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Coraline [see Anthony's review on this blog], based on a children's novel by Neil Gaiman, with another opera based upon a children's book, thus creating a rather interesting vein of intelligent contemporary opera with an attraction for family and young adult audiences.Gavin Higgins' The Monstrous Child, the first opera at the Royal Opera House's re-vamped Linbury […]
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