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Tag Archives: Alexander Soddy
Hot ice and strange snow: an unseasonal return for Carsen’s bed-hopping Dream
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream **** English National Opera, 1st March 2018 Heading to the Coliseum for A Midsummer Night’s Dream amid snow and ice is a disconcerting prospect – “hot ice and strange snow” indeed. Forget wild thyme blowing and substitute … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alexander Soddy, Andri Björn Róbertsson, Britten, Christopher Ainslie, Clare Presland, David Webb, Eleanor Dennis, Emma Carrington, English National Opera, Graeme Danby, Jonathan Lemalu, Joshua Bloom, Matthew Durkan, Michael Levine, Miltos Yerolemou, Robert Carsen, Robert Murray, Simon Butteriss, Soraya Mafi, Timothy Robinson
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Dud bullet: Thalheimer’s Freischütz fires blanks at Staatsoper Berlin
Weber: Der Freischütz *** Staatsoper Berlin, 6th October 2015 The Wolf’s Glen scene in Weber’s Der Freischütz is terrifically difficult to stage – a supernatural centrepiece to a folkloric opera. Director Michael Thalheimer circumvents this in his Staatsoper Berlin production by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Soddy, Alfredo Daza, Anna Prohaska, Anna Samuil, Der Freischütz, Falk Struckmann, Katrin Lea Tag, Michael Thalheimer, Nikolai Schukoff, Olaf Altmann, Peter Moltzen, Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsoper Berlin, Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Wilhelm Schwinghammer
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