Tag Archives: Nicky Spence

Martinů’s The Greek Passion: an opera for our times

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Martinů: The Greek Passion Opera North, Leeds, 14th September 2019 It is a sad reflection on our current climate, where posters depicting queues of refugees are deployed to incite anti-immigrant feelings, that Bohuslav Martinů’s opera The Greek Passion stings with … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Listen with Mother: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan La Monnaie, Brussels, 16th June 2019 Look at it from the point of view of the child. The father he’s never met sentences him and his mother to be nailed into a barrel and … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Frugal simplicity: minimalistic but powerful Carmélites at Grange Park

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Mark Pullinger

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites **** Grange Park Opera, 6th July 2013 The last time I was at Tre Scalini, in Rome’s Piazza Navona, it was a brief visit, merely to scoff down some Tartufo and scribble a postcard or two. Francis … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment