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Tag Archives: Natasha Jouhl
Paper lanterns and origami wings: a ghostly Madama Butterfly at Grimeborn
Puccini: Madama Butterfly **** Grimeborn Festival, Arcola Theatre, 26th August 2015 It’s dangerous when a production is touted as “revelatory”. We were promised a “haunting psychological rendering” of Madama Butterfly by director Julia Burbach, “radically reframed” and inspired by Japanese … Continue reading
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Tagged Arcola Theatre, Ayaka Tanimoto, Cecile Tremolieres, Christopher Diffey, Freddie Tong, Freddy Long, Gareth Brynmor John, Grace Carter, Grimeborn, Julia Burbach, Madama Butterfly, Naomi Dawson, Natasha Jouhl, Nicolas Dwyer, Paul Wingfield, Puccini, Tom Atkins
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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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