Tag Archives: Gyula Nagy

Swan cruise: Nelsons navigates a musically impressive Lohengrin at Covent Garden

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Wagner: Lohengrin *** Royal Opera, 7th June 2018 You wait ages for a swan, then a flock descends. Swiftly following the debut of Liam Scarlett’s Swan Lake, here glides in David Alden’s new staging of Wagner’s Lohengrin, the first at Covent Garden … Continue reading →

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Tragedy undermined: Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen

Posted on November 5, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Bizet: La Tragédie de Carmen ** Royal Opera, Wilton’s Music Hall, 4th November 2017 The distressed walls of Wilton’s Music Hall, in London’s East End, are not dissimilar to the interior of Les Bouffes du Nord, the Parisian theatre where, … Continue reading →

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Ekaterina Bakanova a touchingly fragile Violetta in Covent Garden Traviata

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: La traviata *** The Royal Opera, 14th June 2017 Kasper Holten was right. The affable former Director of Opera always defended yet another run of Verdi’s La traviata at Covent Garden by arguing that for every regular operagoer jaded by seeing … Continue reading →

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A soufflé that fails to rise: Rossini’s Barber falls flat at Covent Garden

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia ** Royal Opera, 13th September 2016 As a renowned gastronome, Gioachino Rossini could have shown Mary Berry a thing or two in the Great British Bake-Off tent. He had several dishes named in his honour, … Continue reading →

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Cav & Pag: a nostalgia trip for Welsh National Opera

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

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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