Tag Archives: Agnes Zwierko

Cinders on the couch: Freudian Cendrillon at Glyndebourne

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Massenet: Cendrillon  Glyndebourne, 8th June 2019 Picnic hamper packed? Champagne cooled? Ready for a spot of psychoanalysis, darling? There are enough references to dreams in Fiona Shaw’s Glyndebourne production of Cendrillon to give Sigmund Freud sleepless nights. Massenet’s charmer premiered … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A second helping for Carsen’s delicious Falstaff at the Royal Opera

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Falstaff ***** Royal Opera, 6th July 2015 If “all the world’s a jest”, as Sir John Falstaff claims at the end of Verdi’s final operatic masterpiece, then we need players – and directors – with a sense of frivolity. … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on A second helping for Carsen’s delicious Falstaff at the Royal Opera

Eyes wide open: a shocker of a Rusalka at the Royal Opera

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Mark Pullinger

Dvořák: Rusalka  ** The Royal Opera, 27th February 2012 Rusalka is simply too good an opera to have waited until 2012 for its first staging by The Royal Opera. Dvořák’s fairy tale about the water nymph who falls in love … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment