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La cambiale di matrimonio, Royal Academy of Music, 16 May 2023
Susie Sainsbury TheatreTobias Mill – Charles Cunliffe Fanny – Luiza Willert Edward Millfort – George Curnow Joseph Slook – Johannes Moore Norton – Duncan Stenhouse Clarina – Chloe Harris Sam Brown (director)Joshua Gadsby (lighting)Teresa Poças (costumes)Royal Academy SinfoniaJohann Stuckenbruck (conductor)Images: Craig Fuller Rossini’s second opera and his first to be staged, the one-act La cambiale di matrimonio has been given a sparky, polished revival by Royal Academy Opera in the UK premiere of Eleonora di Cintio’s new critical edition. (The world premiere took place last November at the Royal Opera House in Muscat.) A fine team of young performers, ably directed by Sam Brown, made a good case for the piece without (wisely, I think) trying to turn it into something that it is not. Carl Dahlhaus’s far from pejorative claim that there was ‘nothing to understand’ about Rossini’s music, as opposed to Beethoven’s, has come in for a great deal […]
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2020-03-08 19:45:44
Official statement from Oman: The Royal Opera House Muscat has canceled all events and concerts for the remainder of the...
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-06-25 11:50:19
The Sultan Of Oman Is Trying To Establish A Major Opera House
He’s already got the building: the spectacular Royal Opera House, Muscat, which opened in 2011 and is reportedly the Omani capital’s second-most-popular tourist attraction. The Economist looks at Sultan Qaboos’s reasons for funding European opera and a few of the difficulties in making the form work in the conservative Arab Gulf. – The Economist
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