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Tag Archives: Roland Wood
McVicar’s Traviata is still darkly impressive
Verdi: La traviata *** Welsh National Opera, Southampton, 23rd November 2018 “I loathe Traviata!” declared David McVicar back in 2003, ahead of his stage production of Camille at the Lyric, Hammersmith. “I could never do such a coarse, clumsy reduction of this woman.” Perhaps this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anush Hovhannisyan, David McVicar, James Southall, Kang Wang, La traviata, Roland Wood, Verdi, Welsh National Opera
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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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ENO’s new Magic Flute mixes high-tech with simple stagecraft
Mozart: The Magic Flute **** English National Opera, 7th November 2013 For all the risk-taking in the operatic world, productions which are guaranteed bums-on-seats bankers are like Nibelung gold. To scrap not one but two such productions is a brave … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Johnson, Brian Galliford, Clare Presland, Complicite, Cornelia Götz, Devon Guthrie, Die Zauberflöte, Eleanor Dennis, English National Opera, Finn Ross, Gareth Fry, Gergely Madaras, James Creswell, Mary Bevan, Michael Levine, Roland Wood, Rosie Aldridge, Simon McBurney, Steven Page
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