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Tag Archives: City of London Sinfonia
A sunny evening in Provence: Cilea’s L’arlesiana shines at Holland Park
Cilea: L’arlesiana Opera Holland Park, 25th July 2019 The Italian verismo of Francesco Cilea’s L’arlesiana is drenched in Provençal sunshine, less earthy than the throbbing Sicilian heat of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, but with softer, pastoral shades. At just an hour … 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
Shorn of excess exoticism: Ailyn Bozok’s Lakmé at Holland Park
Delibes: Lakmé *** Opera Holland Park, 9th July 2015 Ailyn Bozok is used to working on limited means. Her Grimeborn Werther last summer – done with a piano, a handful of singers and a few drapes – was a model of minimalism yet … Continue reading
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Tagged Ailyn Bozok, Andrew Dickinson, City of London Sinfonia, David Soar, Fflur Wyn, Fiona Kimm, Fleur de Bray, Katie Bray, Lakmé, Matthew Waldren, Maud Millar, Morgan Large, Nicholas Lester, Opera Holland Park, Robert Murray
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Fright at the Museum: Slater’s Aida flops at Holland Park
Verdi: Aida ** Opera Holland Park, 24th June 2015 Third time unlucky? After a scorching start to the summer, with superb productions of Il trittico and Flight, Opera Holland Park’s season came unstuck with a horror of a show in … Continue reading
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Tagged Aida, City of London Sinfonia, Daniel Slater, Graeme Broadbent, Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Heather Shipp, Jonathan Veira, Keel Watson, Manlio Benzi, Opera Holland Park, Peter Audy, Verdi
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