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Tag Archives: Gwyn Hughes Jones
Wheel of Fortune: Preziosilla spins Pountney’s Force of Destiny
Verdi: La forza del destino **** Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 2nd February 2018 When the entire plot is triggered by a freak accident, you can’t blame director David Pountney for making Fate itself the opera’s key character. The first scene of Verdi’s La … Continue reading
Billowing silk and blue hair: Phelim McDermott creates an evocative Aida for ENO
Verdi: Aida **** English National Opera, 28th September 2017 Instead of posters for English National Opera’s new staging of Aida depicting a steep shaft of light over a lone soprano, they could easily have screamed Akhnaten II: Return of the Tomb Raider. Phelim McDermott envisages … Continue reading
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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Barbed wire and gruel: cold comfort in ENO’s Force of Destiny
Verdi: La forza del destino *** English National Opera, 9th November 2015 “A co-production with Metropolitan Opera”: five words which probably explain why Calixto Bieito’s new production of Verdi’s The Force of Destiny for English National Opera is – for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Shore, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Calixto Bieito, English National Opera, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Ingo Krügler, James Cresswell, La forza del destino, Mark Wigglesworth, Rebecca Ringst, Rinat Shaham, Tamara Wilson, Verdi
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Sweltering heat, Spanish passions: Verdi’s Ernani in concert
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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Tagged Chelsea Opera Group, Christopher Turner, Erica Eloff, Ernani, Gerard Quinn, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Helena Dix, Jihoon Kim, Matthew Sprange, Robin Newton, Verdi
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