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Nicholas Kenyon

London

Freelance Opera Critic at The Telegraph

Former Managing Director of London's Barbican Centre and Director BBC Proms and Radio 3, now opera critic of the Telegraph. Tweeting personal views

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  • 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.

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Nicholas Kenyon
Nicholas Kenyon @NickRKenyon
16 Dec 24

https://t.co/03VyGx3z5s Great opportunity for lovers of baroque music to support the outstanding work of Arcangelo!

Nicholas Kenyon
Nicholas Kenyon @NickRKenyon
8 Oct 24

RT @artiummedia: Bravo @ArcangeloTeam Vilde Frang & Julia Doyle - "a quietly triumphant occasion" @tetburymusic 🎉🎶 2024 saw sold-out recit…

Nicholas Kenyon
Nicholas Kenyon @NickRKenyon
7 Oct 24

Superb final concert at Tetbury Festival by Arcangelo directed by Jonathan Cohen with violinist Vilde Frang and soprano Julia Doyle --read the 5* star review https://t.co/IbNAqeSoCb