Reviews
L'Amour de Loin, Coliseum, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
If you could see Kaija Saariaho's undulating and deeply sensuous music it would look pretty much like Daniele Finzi Pasca's staging of her first opera L'Amour de Loin (Love from Afar).
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Dvorak Rusalka, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, East Sussex (Rated 5/ 5 )
Monday, 6 July 2009
It helps to have a masterpiece as your starting point – and Dvorak’s Rusalka is certainly that.
Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Royal Opera House, London (Rated 5/ 5 )
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Rossini’s Barber of Seville is packed with showstoppers; but when did we last see it cast at such strength, sung with such tongue and vocal chord twisting relish, and conducted with such panache that every number did just that – stopped the show? Answer: the current revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s wild and wacky staging at the Royal Opera House.
La Bohème, Opera Holland Park, London
Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Britten Theatre, London
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Opera Holland Park's passionate 'Bohème' dares to be unsentimental, unfussy and sincere
Album: Monteverdi, Sweet Torment – I Fagiolini etc, (Chandos)
Sunday, 5 July 2009
I Fagiolini's Monteverdi series continues with another fascinating and faultlessly executed programme of scherzi and accompanied and unaccompanied madrigals from 1605-1638.
Album: Boëly, Musique de Chambre – Quatuor Mosaïques, (Laborie)
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Half-fossil, half-innovator, organist and composer Alexandre Pierre François Boëly (1785-1858) was the self-appointed guardian of the classical style.
Saariaho L’Amour de loin, (Love from afar), English National Opera, London Coliseum (Rated 3/ 5 )
Saturday, 4 July 2009
If you could see Kaija Saariaho’s undulating and deeply sensuous music it would look pretty much like Daniele Finzi Pasca’s staging of her first opera L’Amour de loin (Love from afar).
DiDonato/ Calleja/ Hampson/ Vassilev/ Pappano, Royal Opera House, London (Rated 4/ 5 )
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Only the Royal Opera House could lose one star (the indisposed Dmitri Hvorostovsky) and find three others.
Lost in the stars, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Rated 3/ 5 )
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
It is quite astonishing to look back and see what made the Broadway stage in the 1940s. It was a time of great daring and innovation when the boundaries between musical comedy and opera were less defined than they've ever been. Kurt Weill's final show for Broadway Lost in the Stars – his musical adaptation with Maxwell Anderson of Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country – would be lucky to make off-Broadway today. And yet there it was – a deeply compassionate drama of division and reconciliation in apartheid South Africa playing the capriciously named "Great White Way" in an attempt to prick America's own racist conscience. And it took a Jewish refugee from Hitler's Germany to do it.
The Fairy Queen, Fidelio, Mirandolina
Sunday, 28 June 2009
'The Fairy Queen' doesn't need lewd additions to get noticed – Purcell's score is seductive enough
Album: Bach, Orchestral Suites for a Young Prince, (Avie)
Sunday, 28 June 2009
Bach was never more comfortable than he was in Köthen, earning four times as much from the young Prince Leopold as he would in thrifty Leipzig. Is this reflected in his music?
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