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2023-06-13 14:45:00
Così fan tutte, Grange Festival Opera, 10 June 2023
Fiordiligi – Samantha Clarke Dorabella – Kitty Whately Guglielmo – Nicholas Lester Ferrando – Alessandro Fisher Despina – Carolina Lippo Don Alfonso – Christian Senn Martin Lloyd-Evans (director) Dick Bird (designs) Johanna Town (lighting) Grange Festival Chorus (chorus master: Tom Primrose) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits (conductor) Guglielmo (Nicholas Lester), Dorabella (Kitty Whately), Fiordiligi (Samantha Clarke), Ferrando (Alessandro Fisher)Images: Craig Fuller To Hampshire and The Grange for the second of what should for me be three productions of Così fan tutte this summer. I cannot yet comment on Munich (Benedict Andrews/Vladimir Jurowski) but Oslo (Katrine Wiedemann/Tobias Ringborg) makes for an interesting comparison. Both had good casts, though if pushed, I should say The Grange had the edge. Though there were a good few things to admire in conductor and orchestra in Oslo, here the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and an inspired Kirill Karabits unquestionably offered the superior experience. It was, however, […]
2021-09-02 12:00:00
By Porpora demand
Important European revivals this season would like to return Nicola Porpora to the remarkable prominence he held during the first half of the 18th century. Trove Thursday argues his case with a “pirate” recording of Polifemo featuring Franco Fagioli in a star performance along with Xavier Sabata, Laura Aikin, Mary-Ellen Nesi and Christian Senn.
2021-07-08 12:42:03
Wonderfully satisfying: a very stylish production of Rossini's La Cenerentola at The Grange Festival
Rossini: La Cenerentola - Christian Senn, Heather Lowe, Carolina Lippo, Maria Ostroukhova - The Grange Festival (Photo Simon Anand Rossini La Cenerentola; Heather Lowe, Nico Darmanin, Christian Senn, Simone Alberghini, Carolina Lippo, Maria Ostroukhova, Roberto Lorenzi, dir: Stephen Barlow, cond: David Parry; The Grange Festival Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 July 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) An impressively international cast with 1950s period designs forming a stylish backdrop to a production full of characterWe caught the final performance, on 7 July 2021, of Stephen Barlow's production of Rossini's La Cenerentola at The Grange Festival, conducted by David Parry with Heather Lowe as Angelina, Nico Darmanin as Don Ramiro, Christian Senn as Dandini, Simone Alberghini as Don Magnifico, Carolina Lippo as Clorinda, Maria Ostroukhova as Tisbe and Roberto Lorenzi as Alidoro. Designs were by Andrew D Edwards and lighting by Paul Pyant. As with the festival's previous opera […]
2021-03-02 16:54:12
Winter into Spring: Oxford Lieder Festival's Spring weekend concludes
[…] always had something of a problem with Ganymed, the result of Goethe's poetic rewriting and then Schubert's approach to it means that we are well away from Zeus abducting a boy for his own delicious ends. Here the ecstasy was quite sedate, but beautifully done. Ailish Tynan then joined Iain Burnside for a Schubert group which began with Ständchen (D889) which had a delightful spring in its step. Schwanengesang (the song setting poetry by Johann Senn, not the song cycle) was slow and thoughtfully sombre, with a rather mystical piano accompaniment. Die Forelle was performed by both Tynan and Burnside with a glint in their eyes. Tynan is a terrific story teller whatever the song, and she really engaged here. Das sie hier gewesen was rather touching whilst they made Wandrers Nachtlied II (D 768) quietly mystical. We ended with Die junge Nonne, and this was not the usual show-piece […]