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Tag Archives: Royal Opera
Firing blanks: a disappointing Tosca at Covent Garden
Puccini: Tosca ** The Royal Opera, 11th January 2016 Nothing sweeps away the Christmas excess of multiple Nutcrackers like the biting chords denoting the villainous Baron Scarpia at the start of Tosca. I have a sneaking fondness for Puccini’s ‘shabby … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Echalaz, Andrew Sinclair, Donald Maxwell, Emmanuel Villaume, Hubert Francis, Jonathan Kent, Najmiddin Mavlyanov, Puccini, Roberto Frontali, Royal Opera, Tosca, Yuriy Yurchuk
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Seeing double: Kasper Holten’s Eugene Onegin returns to Covent Garden
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin **** The Royal Opera, 19th December 2015 The question I’d longed to ask Kasper Holten when his 2013 Royal Opera staging of Eugene Onegin opened was: if you’d had a younger soprano cast as Tatyana, would you … Continue reading
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Tagged Catherine Wyn-Rogers, David Shipley, Diana Montague, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Emily Ranford, Eugene Onegin, Ferruccio Furlanetto, James Platt, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Kasper Holten, Mia Stensgaard, Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car, Oksana Volkova, Royal Opera, Semyon Bychkov, Tchaikovsky
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Passion Plays: Michieletto’s interwoven Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana/ Leoncavallo: Pagliacci **** The Royal Opera, 3rd December 2015 Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci have been locked together in a fatal embrace since 1893 when they were first paired as a double bill. Dalliances with other partners followed … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleksandrs Antonenko, Antonio Pappano, Benjamin Hulett, Carmen Giannattasio, Cavalleria rusticana, Damiano Michieletto, Dimitri Platanias, Dionysios Sourbis, Elena Zilio, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Leoncavallo, Martina Belli, Mascagni, Pagliacci, Royal Opera
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The One with Figaro’s Wedding: a deftly directed revival at Covent Garden
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro **** Royal Opera House, 15th September 2015 There are few operas more perfect than Le nozze di Figaro. David McVicar’s production, returning for a fifth time at the Royal Opera, updates the action to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alasdair Elliott, Anita Hartig, Ann Murray, Carlo Lepore, David McVicar, Ellie Dehn, Erwin Schrott, Heather Engebretson, Ivor Bolton, Jeremy White, Kate Lindsey, Krystian Adam, Royal Opera, Stéphane Degout, Tanya McCallin
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Surveillance programme
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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