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Tag Archives: David Kempster
Cav & Pag: a nostalgia trip for Welsh National Opera
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci **** Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 29th May 2016 Welsh National Opera may have reached the ripe old age of seventy but it’s very much alive and kicking. It celebrates this milestone Janus-like, looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Marie Owens, Camilla Roberts, Carlo Rizzi, Cavalleria rusticana, David Kempster, Elijah Moshinsky, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Gyula Nagy, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Meeta Raval, Michael Yeargan, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Pagliacci, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, Welsh National Opera, WNO Chorus
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Les Martyrs: Revelatory Donizetti on disc from Opera Rara
Donizetti: Les Martyrs When Donizetti’s rarity Poliuto opened the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival a week ago, the music would already have been familiar to a number of audience members. Only last autumn, those operatic archaeologists Opera Rara had put on a … Continue reading
Crushed: Exquisite Madam Butterfly suffers in the RAH
Puccini: Madam Butterfly *** Royal Albert Hall, 26th February 2015 Take an exquisite production of a Puccini tearjerker, cast it attractively… then crush its fragile wings under the weight of the Albert Hall’s vastness. Madama Butterfly is a perfect opera … Continue reading
Opera Rara: Donizetti’s Les Martyrs a revelation
Donizetti: Les Martyrs ***** Opera Rara, Royal Festival Hall, 4th November 2014 There is no shortage of rare Donizetti operas set in exotic locations – Emilia di Liverpool, Zoroaida di Granata, Harrison di Accrington (okay, artistic license exercised on that final one) – so … Continue reading
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Tagged Brindley Sherratt, Clive Bayley, David Kempster, Donizetti, Joyce El-Khoury, Les Martyrs, Mark Elder, Michael Spyres, Opera Rara, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Wynne Evans
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