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Nuns on the run: laughs aplenty in Chelsea Opera’s Le Comte Ory

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Rossini: Le Comte Ory *** Chelsea Opera Group, 25th June 2016 Whether fortuitous or sly programming, all three operas performed by Chelsea Opera Group this season have featured nuns: Isabella, propositioned in Wagner’s early comedy Das Liebesverbot; Leonora, about to … Continue reading →

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Sweltering heat, Spanish passions: Verdi’s Ernani in concert

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Ernani *** Chelsea Opera Group, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3rd July 2015 It’s inconceivable that The Royal Opera can have offered us two productions of Verdi’s I due Foscari in the past two decades, yet has never staged its immediate … Continue reading →

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To Paradise and back: a thrilling Le Roi de Lahore from Chelsea Opera Group

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore **** Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1st March 2015 This is what Chelsea Opera Group was put on this earth for! Take an obscure grand opera that Covent Garden wouldn’t touch with a barge pole, prune it … Continue reading →

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Fairies at the bottom of Wagner’s garden

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Mark Pullinger

Wagner: Die Feen Chelsea Opera Group, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 17th March 2013 There are fairies at the bottom of the garden. On the Wagner-Verdi bicentenary dual carriageway, the Chelsea Opera Group charabanc trundled into town for the first of its … Continue reading →

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