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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Belcea Quartet excels in Britten and Shostakovich at Aldeburgh Festival
Britten, Shostakovich, Mozart, Widmann **** Belcea Quartet, Jörg Widmann, Piotr Anderszewski, Snape Maltings Benjamin Britten’s spirit haunts Snape Maltings just as the ghosts of his final opera Death in Venice haunt his Third String Quartet. Resignation and isolation are etched into its … Continue reading
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For whom the bell tolls: Saint-Saëns’ Le Timbre d’argent chimes again at the Opéra Comique
Saint-Saëns: Le Timbre d’argent *** Opéra Comique, Paris, 9th June 2017 Asked to name an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns, the chances are that Samson et Dalila is the first answer to trip from your tongue. Now name a second! In recent years Palazzetto … Continue reading
Lemoyne’s Phèdre: intense mythological drama at the Bouffes du Nord
Lemoyne: Phèdre **** Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris, 8th June 2017 If you’d told me that Phèdre had been composed by Gluck, I’d have completely believed you. Instead, the composer of this tragédie lyrique was Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1751-1796) of … Continue reading
Halévy’s La Reine de Chypre claims three tenor victims in Paris
Halévy: La Reine de Chypre *** Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 7th June 2017 The only opera you’re ever likely to encounter by Fromental Halévy is La Juive, which probably qualifies the composer as a “one hit wonder”. But Halévy wrote around … Continue reading
Don Giovanni all at sea at Opera Holland Park
Mozart: Don Giovanni ** Opera Holland Park, 3rd June 2017 This production opens like the perfect whodunnit. Passengers embark with their luggage aboard an ocean liner for a transatlantic cruise, busily locating their cabins. Within moments there’s an attempted rape, … Continue reading