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3 days ago |
operatoday.com | David Truslove
What a rare pleasure it was to encounter Wild Arts Opera at Layer Marney Tower in rural Essex. Amongst the delights within its fourth summer season, was the immersive experience of Tchaikovsky’s 1879 work staged within a medieval barn next to England’s tallest Tudor gatehouse, a location that could almost have been Madame Larina’s country estate.
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5 days ago |
operatoday.com | David Truslove
Grange Festival’s Fledermaus is a sprawling new production which improves with each act and ends with rib-tickling gags from flamboyant cabaret artiste Myra du Bois. By the time you’ve finished laughing at this drag queen’s brilliant Dame Edna style delivery, you may have forgotten the essence of Johann Strauss II’s revenge-filled entertainment and wafer-thin plot. Revenge is a dish usually served cold, but here it’s more warmly mischievous.
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1 week ago |
operatoday.com | David Truslove
Making his debut with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Masaaki Suzuki directed an all-Bach concert celebrating the 300th anniversary of five works, four cantatas and a Sinfonia, written in 1725 when the composer was Thomaskantor in Leipzig.
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1 week ago |
operatoday.com | David Truslove
Scenes of torture, execution and bleak rows of coffins may not be the cheeriest of hors d’oeuvres before your interval bubbly. This is Grange Park Opera’s new staging of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed Mazeppa, where love and political ambition collide with fatal consequences. No chainsaw massacre here, as in David Alden’s presentation for English National Opera in 1984, but there’s still much to disturb with its graphic content.
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2 weeks ago |
operatoday.com | David Truslove
Of Camille Saint-Saëns’s thirteen operas, only Samson and Dalila remains a regular part of the repertory. So, the enterprising New Sussex Opera must be congratulated on presenting the UK premiere of the composer’s first opera, Le Timbre d’argent, first given in Lewes, East Sussex, in May this year and supported by an effective English translation from Paul Featherstone.
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