Nicholas Kenyon

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Nicholas Kenyon

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3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Kenyon

Simon Keenleyside as Simon Boccanegra and Elin Pritchard as Amelia Grimaldi in Grange Park Opera’s Simon Boccanegra - Alastair MuirVerdi’s sombre yet uplifting opera Simon Boccanegra, the story of power struggles and betrayals in 14th-century Genoa, will never be among his most immediately appealing works. But in a production as strong as Grange Park Opera has mounted, with a cast led by the magnificent Simon Keenlyside as the first Doge of Genoa, it accumulates tremendous intensity.

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Kenyon

Verdi's sombre yet uplifting opera Simon Boccanegra, the story of power struggles and betrayals in 14th-century Genoa, will never be among his most immediately appealing works. But in a production as strong as Grange Park Opera has mounted, with a cast led by the magnificent Simon Keenlyside as the first Doge of Genoa, it accumulates tremendous intensity. David Pountney's vintage staging, with a fine idiomatic Verdi cast, lifts the achievements of Grange Park Opera onto a new level.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Kenyon

What do you do when you've done the Ring? Longborough Festival Opera has built a great reputation for its economical stagings of the operas of Richard Wagner's Ring, and completed its latest cycle last year. This season, they have shaken up their programming by importing a contemporary opera that starts with the German composer's death in 1883 and takes us to the 1920s with the rise of Nazis.

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nicholas Kenyon

Nothing about Wagner's Parsifal is normal. It certainly isn't a normal opera, though countless directors have tried to make it one. Richard Wagner created his final major work, first performed in 1882, as a "stage consecration play", casting its narrative of redemption in the form of a long, unfolding ritual. "Here, time becomes space", as one line in the libretto has it.