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2024-02-29 12:31:30
The Coliseum, LondonThere’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, with Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a demented dalek-like Queen of the NightFor all Mozart’s musical genius, The Magic Flute can be a long and not especially funny night at the opera. That certainly isn’t the case with Simon McBurney’s 2013 production at the beleaguered English National Opera. Staged in collaboration with Complicité, and scrupulously revived by director Rachael Hewer, there’s a lifetime of wit, wisdom and theatrical audacity distilled in this inventive Peach of a show.Ditching the masonic mumbo-jumbo and gussying up the dialogue, McBurney has you laughing out loud. A dozen actors, their movement beautifully choreographed, bustle around without ever pulling focus; singers inhabit the auditorium without it feeling gratuitous. There’s aerial wizardry, tiny shadow puppets, some inventive and immaculately coordinated live video (Ben Thompson) and equally ingenious deployment of an […]
2022-05-29 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to orchestral music by American composer William Grant Still. 'A Peach of an issue, superbly performed, recorded and annotated.'
2021-10-26 11:14:59
A series of little gems: Reels, Drones & Jigs from the ensemble Perpetuo
[…] tribute to both Handel and Milton: the expansive original 1743 version of Samson at London Handel Festival - concert review Modified rapture: Diana Damrau and Maciej Pikulski in Schumann, Duparc, Strauss & Spanish songs at Wigmore Hall - concert review To enter this music is to enter a different world, one that you wonder why you never discovered it earlier: Martin Jones plays Elisabeth Lutyens' piano music on Resonus Classics - record review Spiorachas – A High Place: Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach - record review Home
2021-10-25 07:39:38
[…] tribute to both Handel and Milton: the expansive original 1743 version of Samson at London Handel Festival - concert review Modified rapture: Diana Damrau and Maciej Pikulski in Schumann, Duparc, Strauss & Spanish songs at Wigmore Hall - concert review To enter this music is to enter a different world, one that you wonder why you never discovered it earlier: Martin Jones plays Elisabeth Lutyens' piano music on Resonus Classics - record review Spiorachas – A High Place: Charlie Grey & Joseph Peach - record review Intense and redemptive: Janacek's Jenufa in the new production at Covent Garden - opera review Home