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Tag Archives: Robert Carsen
Jolly hockey sticks! Orliński rules as Rinaldo at Glyndebourne
Handel: Rinaldo Glyndebourne, 8th August 2019 Rotten Romans, the first film inspired by Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories books which have brought the past alive for decades of schoolchildren, opened in cinemas a fortnight ago. If they ever decide to tackle … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Cedel, Bruno Ravella, Gideon Davey, Giulia Semenzato, Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne Chorus, Handel, Jakub Józef Orliński, James Hall, Kristina Mkhitaryan, Maxim Emelyanchev, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Patrick Terry, Peter van Praet, Rinaldo, Robert Carsen, Tim Mead
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Sir John in Love: the fat knight returns to Covent Garden
Verdi: Falstaff **** Royal Opera, 10th July 2018 There was an end of term feel about this revival of Falstaff at the Royal Opera, with many singers returning to a favourite role and imparting a spirited sense of fun. Robert Carsen’s production, shunting … Continue reading
Hot ice and strange snow: an unseasonal return for Carsen’s bed-hopping Dream
Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream **** English National Opera, 1st March 2018 Heading to the Coliseum for A Midsummer Night’s Dream amid snow and ice is a disconcerting prospect – “hot ice and strange snow” indeed. Forget wild thyme blowing and substitute … Continue reading
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alexander Soddy, Andri Björn Róbertsson, Britten, Christopher Ainslie, Clare Presland, David Webb, Eleanor Dennis, Emma Carrington, English National Opera, Graeme Danby, Jonathan Lemalu, Joshua Bloom, Matthew Durkan, Michael Levine, Miltos Yerolemou, Robert Carsen, Robert Murray, Simon Butteriss, Soraya Mafi, Timothy Robinson
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Stop all the clocks: Renée Fleming’s valedictory Marschallin at the Royal Opera
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier **** The Royal Opera, 17th December 2016 Aware her teenage lover will inevitably leave her for a younger woman, the Marschallin muses that time trickles like sand through an hourglass, flowing ceaselessly. At night she stops all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Coote, Andris Nelsons, Der Rosenkavalier, Helene Schneiderman, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Matthew Rose, Renée Fleming, Richard Strauss, Robert Carsen, Royal Opera, Sophie Bevan, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
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A second helping for Carsen’s delicious Falstaff at the Royal Opera
Verdi: Falstaff ***** Royal Opera, 6th July 2015 If “all the world’s a jest”, as Sir John Falstaff claims at the end of Verdi’s final operatic masterpiece, then we need players – and directors – with a sense of frivolity. … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Zwierko, Ainhoa Arteta, Alasdair Elliott, Ambrogio Maestri, Anna Devin, Brigitte Reiffenstuel, Falstaff, Kai Rüütel, Luis Gomes, Lukas Jakobski, Michael Schønwandt, Paul Steinberg, Peter Hoare, Robert Carsen, Roland Wood, Royal Opera, Verdi
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