Jacques Imbrailo News
South African classical baritone (born 1978)
- baritone
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- lawyer, performing artist, opera singer
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2022-03-26 12:30:56
[…] Covid raged then. It rages now, making this an achievement given that a cast of 14 and a large, jostling chorus are required. Some of our greatest singers take the ensemble roles and enhance them. Bryn Terfel, in superb voice, holds the stage as an unusually compassionate Captain Balstrode. John Tomlinson excels as Mr Swallow the tottery, totty-prone lawyer. James Gilchrist soothes as the smoothly supplicating Rector. Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Auntie), Rosie Aldridge (Mrs Sedley), Jacques Imbrailo (Ned Keene) and all the other townsfolk, named or not, manage to be more than caricatures.
2022-03-22 20:57:25
Anglais - Deborah Warner’s New Peter Grimes Has it All at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] also a very fine Ellen as her soprano is quite rich and sumptuous, yet also sensitive enough to convey a deeply caring person who seeks a simple and happy, as opposed to prestigious but unachievable, life. Sir Bryn Terfel is on tremendous form as Balstrode, using his firm bass-baritone to convey a man who seeks to be the voice of moderation and reason. There is also brilliant support from Sir John Tomlinson as Swallow, Jacques Imbrailo as Ned Keene, Rosie Aldridge as Mrs Sedley, John Graham-Hall as Bob Boles, James Gilchrist as the Rev. Horace Adams, Stephen Richardson as Hobson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers as ‘Auntie’ and Jennifer France and Alexandra Lowe as her ‘Nieces’. A streaming of this Peter Grimes will be available via the Royal Opera House Stream webpage between 8 April and 8 May 2022. By Sam Smith Peter Grimes | 17 - 31 March 2022 | Royal Opera […]
2022-03-18 14:21:00
Royal Opera House Images: ROH 2022 (c) Yasuko KageyamaThe Boy (Cruz Fitz), Peter Grimes (Allan Clayton) Hobson – Stephen Richardson Swallow – John Tomlinson Peter Grimes – Allan Clayton Ned Keene – Jacque Imbrailo Rev. Horace Adams – James Gilchrist Bob Boles – John Graham-Hall Auntie – Catherine Wyn-Rogers First Niece – Jennifer France Second Niece – Alexandra Lowe Mrs Sedley – Rosie Aldridge Ellen Orford – Maria Bengtsson Bryn Terfel – Captain Balstrode The Boy – Cruz Fitz Aerialist – Jamie Higgins Deborah Warner (director)Michael Levine (set designs)Luis F. Carvalho (costumes)Peter Mumford (lighting)Kim Brandstrup (choreography)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding) Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseMark Elder (conductor) London has proved fortunate with recent productions of Peter Grimes(and doubtless with older ones too). David Alden’s 2014 production for ENO and Willy Decker’s for the Royal Opera (in its 2011 revival) both had considerable virtues and received performances. […]
2020-12-01 08:30:28
A bright spot in 2021: Garsington Opera's plans for its celebration of 10 years at Wormsley
[…] new production of Rossini's Le comte Ory, an opera not performed anything like as often as it should be. Directed by Cal McCrystal [who directed ENO's 2018 production of G&S's Iolanthe, see my review] and conducted by Valentina Peleggi [who conducted Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld at ENO in 2019], the cast includes American tenor Jack Swanson (making his role debut) and Robert Murray sharing the title role with Andrea Carroll, Katie Bray and Jacques Imbrailo. Michael Boyd's 2016 production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin [see my review] is returning with Jonathan McGovern [whom we last saw as Andrei in WNO's terrific production of Prokofiev's War and Peace, see my review] in the title role with Moldovan soprano Natalia Tanasii as Tatyana and Sam Furness [whom we saw in David Sawer's The Skating Rink at the 2018 festival, see my review] as Lensky. Douglas Boyd conducts. The above three operas will […]
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