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Tag Archives: Tom Cairns
Tears before bedtime: El-Khoury transcends Cairns’ chilly Glyndebourne Traviata
Verdi: La traviata **** Glyndebourne, 1st August 2017 Glyndebourne’s production of operatic weepy La traviata left me dry-eyed when I saw it on tour back in 2014. I found the abstract setting cold and austere, the performances bland. Thankfully, I employed a caveat … Continue reading
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Tagged Atalla Ayan, Daniel Shelvey, Dimitri Platanias, Eliza Safjan, Gabriele Mangione, Glyndebourne, Glyndebourne Chorus, Henry Waddington, Hildegard Bechtler, Joyce El-Khoury, La traviata, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rihab Chaieb, Stefan Soltesz, Tom Cairns, Verdi, William Dazeley
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Glyndebourne’s La traviata on tour: or What the Maid Saw
Verdi: La traviata ** Glyndebourne on Tour, Woking, 1st November 2014 Verdi never met Marie Duplessis, for she died five months before the composer’s first visit to Paris, but he was deeply touched by her fate, to be related through … Continue reading
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Tagged David Afkham, Eddie Wade, Emanuele D’Aguanno, Evez Abdulla, Glyndebourne, La traviata, Natasha Jouhl, Tom Cairns, Verdi
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