Tag Archives: Anna Patalong

Alwyn’s Miss Julie rescued from the operatic desert

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Alwyn: Miss Julie Oramo/ BBCSO, Barbican, 3rd october 2019 “Crazy, utterly crazy!” No, not Miss Julie’s outrageous behaviour, dancing and cavorting with the servants on Midsummer’s Eve, but that William Alwyn’s operatic take on August Strindberg’s play could have been … Continue reading →

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Brush up your Puccini: a 16th-century Bohème at Holland Park

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Puccini: La bohème ***  Opera Holland Park, 11th June 2016 “The course of true love never did run smooth.” That William Shakespeare knew a thing or two about love. Many of his plays have been adapted as operas and companies … Continue reading →

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Tcherniakov triumphs with Iolanta, but hobbles Nutcracker at the Garnier

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta/ The Nutcracker *** Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier, 11th March 2016 At the 1892 première of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and The Nutcracker, it was the opera which scored the bigger hit with the critics, even though it’s the ballet which … Continue reading →

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Terrific double bill at Guildhall

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Mark Pullinger

Donizetti: Rita; Tchaikovsky: Iolanta **** Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 9th June 2011 This was an evening which started well and just kept on getting better. A sharp-tongued, tyrannical wife and an innocent, blind princess made for an imaginative … Continue reading →

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