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Tag Archives: Emma Carrington
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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Fairies at the bottom of Wagner’s garden
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