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A sunny evening in Provence: Cilea’s L’arlesiana shines at Holland Park

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Cilea: L’arlesiana Opera Holland Park, 25th July 2019 The Italian verismo of Francesco Cilea’s L’arlesiana is drenched in Provençal sunshine, less earthy than the throbbing Sicilian heat of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, but with softer, pastoral shades. At just an hour … Continue reading →

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Don Giovanni all at sea at Opera Holland Park

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Mozart: Don Giovanni ** Opera Holland Park, 3rd June 2017 This production opens like the perfect whodunnit. Passengers embark with their luggage aboard an ocean liner for a transatlantic cruise, busily locating their cabins. Within moments there’s an attempted rape, … Continue reading →

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Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

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Brush up your Puccini: a 16th-century Bohème at Holland Park

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Puccini: La bohème ***  Opera Holland Park, 11th June 2016 “The course of true love never did run smooth.” That William Shakespeare knew a thing or two about love. Many of his plays have been adapted as operas and companies … Continue reading →

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Surveillance programme

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Mark Pullinger

Once you enter the opera house or concert hall, what’s the first thing you do? Collect your ticket from the box office? Deposit your coat into the cloakroom? I wouldn’t mind betting that you then dutifully queue to purchase a … Continue reading →

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