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2021-11-29 09:47:27
The journey begins: Richard Jones and Martyn Brabbins launch a new Ring Cycle at ENO, dramatically anti-heroic yet with strong musical values and some intriguing ideas
Wagner: The Valkyrie - Rachel Nicholls - English National Opera (Photo Tristram Kenton) Wagner The Valkyrie; Rachell Nicholls, Emma Bell, Nicky Spence, Matthew Rose/Tomasz Konieczny, Brindley Sherratt, Susan Bickley, dir: Richard Jones, cond: Martyn Brabbins; English National Opera at the London Coliseum Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 November 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Strong musical values, a largely home-grown cast and some intriguing dramatic ideas make for an interesting start to ENO's new Wagnerian journeyThe Bayreuth Festival apart, few opera companies reveal a new Ring Cycle in one fell swoop, instead the cycle tends to be developed over a number of years so that the whole production beds in. This means that the first production in a cycle has to be thought of as not so much a finished product as the beginning of a journey, designer, director and conductor laying out the ground rules.English National […]
2019-02-09 19:54:00
National Parks Magazine: Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago
Emmett Till © Associated Press National Parks Magazine Winter 2019 Mississippi Reckoning By Kate Siber Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for Mississippi on a southbound train in the summer of 1955, he almost forgot to kiss his mother goodbye. The […]
2017-08-18 00:59:00
The Gravel-voiced rock preacher, who sings over strings on Achilles Come Down, grew up on the classical music his opera singer father played at home. When asked to specify, Le'aupepe lets fly with a string of big names, including Philip Glass, Steve ...
2017-07-18 16:00:15
Tragedy tonight
I always approach an opera by Richard Wagner with a touch of trepidation. First you really need to be paying attention to the text because his characters are talking, talking talking. Loquacious to a fault. This isn’t the poetry pit stop of Italian opera where whomever yodels on about their current emotional state for a few stanza then rinse and repeat. No, there are a lot of facts and narrative piling up over long stretches and if you get distracted, say filling your wine glass, you can easily find yourself saying 10mins. hence,”Wait, what is she talking about?” Then there’s the topic of length. In retrospect it’s a good thing that Wagner and Eugene O’Neil managed to miss each other’s artistic maturity by mere decades because they would have no doubt adored each other and ended up collaborateurs. The ensuing musical opus would surely dwarf the Ring and make […]
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