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Tag Archives: English National Opera
ENO’s new Magic Flute mixes high-tech with simple stagecraft
Mozart: The Magic Flute **** English National Opera, 7th November 2013 For all the risk-taking in the operatic world, productions which are guaranteed bums-on-seats bankers are like Nibelung gold. To scrap not one but two such productions is a brave … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Johnson, Brian Galliford, Clare Presland, Complicite, Cornelia Götz, Devon Guthrie, Die Zauberflöte, Eleanor Dennis, English National Opera, Finn Ross, Gareth Fry, Gergely Madaras, James Creswell, Mary Bevan, Michael Levine, Roland Wood, Rosie Aldridge, Simon McBurney, Steven Page
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It’s curtains for Violetta: Corinne Winters triumphs in Konwitschny’s stripped-down Traviata
Verdi: La traviata ***** English National Opera, 2nd February 2013 Red curtains peel apart tentatively to reveal a chair… and another set of red curtains. And that, in essence (save for a stack of books) is it for the set … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Michaels-Moore, Ben Johnson, Clare Presland, Corinne Winters, English National Opera, La traviata, Martin Lamb, Michael Hofstetter, Paul Hopwood, Peter Konwitschny, Valerie Reid, Verdi
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Pulling the strings: ENO’s widescreen Butterfly
Puccini: Madam Butterfly *** English National Opera, 8th May 2012 Madam Butterfly is one of two operas virtually guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes of this traditionally stony-hearted critic (The Cunning Little Vixen is the other, should you be interested, so … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Minghella, Blind Summit Theatre, Carolyn Choa, Catherine Young, English National Opera, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Han Feng, John Fanning, Jonathan McGovern, Madama Butterfly, Mark Richardson, Mary Plazas, Michael Colvin, Michael Levine, Oleg Caetani, Pamela Helen Stephen, Puccini, Sarah Tipple
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Miller’s ‘mafioso’ Rigoletto still powerfully persuasive
Verdi: Rigoletto**** English National Opera, 21st September 2009 Jonathan Miller’s mafioso take on Verdi’s Rigoletto premiered at English National Opera in 1982, since when it’s become a company stalwart. This is its twelfth revival and the powers that be obviously … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Michaels-Moore, Brindley Sherratt, English National Opera, Iain Paterson, Jonathan Miller, Katherine Whyte, Madeleine Shaw, Michael Fabiano, Rigoletto, Stephen Lord, Verdi
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