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2019-09-28 15:37:38
A terrific company achievement: Martinu's The Greek Passion at Opera North
Martinu: The Greek Passion - Magdalena Molendowska, Richard Mosley-Evans, Paul Nilon, Rhodri Prys Jones, Nicky Spence, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts- Opera North (Photo Tristram Kenton) Martinu The Greek Passion; Nicky Spence, Magdalena Molendowska, Stephen Gadd, John Savournin, Paul Nilon, Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, dir: Christopher Alden, cond: Garry Walker; Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 September 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Martinu's powerful, epic opera as concentrated modern drama Martinu: The Greek Passion - Nicky SpenceOpera North (Photo Tristram Kenton) Considering it was written for Covent Garden in 1957, Bohuslav Martinu's The Greek Passion has rather a strange history in the UK. Rejected by Covent Garden at the last minute (probably through a combination of the work's experimental form and nervousness about issues surrounding the problems in Cyprus), Martinu offered the opera to Zurich. But the changes required by that company […]
2016-03-09 21:41:49
WE'VE become pretty accustomed to watching operas that have been translated into the English language, but how about one translated into Cymraeg for a change? Opra Cymru bring a new Welsh-language version of Donizetti's comic opera L'elisir d'amore to Taliesin Arts Centre next week, with a chamber orchestra under the leadership of Anthony Negus, formerly of Welsh National Opera, and a cast of young up-and-coming talent including National Eisteddfod prize-winning tenor Rhodri Prys Jones. Opra Cymru was founded in Blaenau Ffestiniog in 2008 by opera director Patrick Young and his wife Sioned.
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