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2023-10-27 13:19:34
Grand theatre, LeedsSet in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoonsPuccini’s La Rondine (the swallow) is, true to its title, a curious bird: not quite operetta and not quite grand opera, with few of the instantly excerptable set pieces of his more famous creations. The plot is a hybrid too: a cousin to La Traviata but minus its redemptive third act, and with a servant subplot redolent of Die Fledermaus.Veering between comedy and tragedy, it culminates in one of the composer’s uneasiest endings, when the courtesan Magda is denied not just a happy ending but also the more familiar Puccinian option of a cathartic death. Determined that her own past will bring ruin to her unworldly lover Ruggero, she leaves him bereft – returning miserably to the gilded cage […]
2023-10-21 11:15:00
What's not to love? Glamour and heart as Puccini's little swallow returns to Opera North
Puccini: La Rondine - Sébastien Guèze, Galina Averina - Opera North (Photo: Tristram Kenton)Puccini: La Rondine; Galina Averina, Sébastien Guèze, Claire Lees, Elgan Llŷr Thomas, Philip Smith, director: James Hurley, conductor: Kerem Hasan; Opera North at Grand Theatre, LeedsReviewed 20 October 2023Glorious melodies sung by a youthful cast, 1930s glamour in a production proud of its green credentials, and a story both touching and engaginThe problem with Puccini's La Rondine, if problem there is, is that no-one dies; it is Puccini's only major opera where a significant death does not occur. La Rondine ends with a love triangle where, very even handedly, no-one really gets what they want. The opera was an experiment, coming at a time when Puccini was trying to move his art in other directions. After Madama Butterfly in 1904 came two operas where Puccini changed tack, La Fanciulla del West in 1910 and La Rondine in 1917. […]
2022-03-20 10:18:42
Anglais - First Revival of Phelim McDermott’s Così fan tutte at the London Coliseum
[…] the opera. Mozart and Da Ponte may ostensibly have been telling us that ‘women are like that’, but surely they were inviting us to infer that ‘men are like that’ as well as in the opera they clearly do not behave any better than the women. ENO 22 Così fan tutte, Nardus Williams, Hanna Hipp © Lloyd Winters The real strength of the evening lies in its musical credentials and casting. Kerem Hasan’s conducting is thoughtful and pleasing, while the voices of Nardus Williams as Fiordiligi and Hanna Hipp as Dorabella work very well together. Williams’s sound is relatively direct, but it is imbued with the right degree of lightness, much sensitivity and very pleasing grains. Hipp’s is richer and more sumptuous and she delivers a first rate vocal performance. However, she makes Dorabella too strait-laced for the sister who is more on the verge of capitulating […]
2021-11-17 09:27:26
BSO's Voices from the East returns with a focus on Turkmen Russian composer Chary Nurïmov, and Azerbaijani composers Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and Kara Karayev
Kirill Karabits and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, 2019 (Photo Chris Christoulou) Like many orchestras, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has recently announced the remainder of its 2021/22 season with concerts from January to May 2022 at in Poole, Truro, Basingstoke, Portsmouth and Exeter. Chief conductor Kirill Karabits will be conducting eight performances, and there is the return of the orchestra's recently appointed principal guest conductor Mark Wigglesworth with a programme of Mozart, Schubert and Jonathan Dove, whilst the young British conductor Kerem Hasan makes his debut with the orchestra conducting Kodaly, Bruch and Tchaikovsky. Associate guest conductor David Hill will be conducting the BSO and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus for their first full concert together since the pandemic, in a programme of Schumann, Beethoven and Brahms. Other conductors making their BSO debuts are Teresa Riveiro Böhm, Case Scaglione, and Chloé van Soeterstède. Karabits is continuing his Voices from the East series and […]
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