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2021-07-26 07:19:43
A light touch, yet full of character: Mascagni's L'amico Fritz proves an engaging discovery at Opera Holland Park
Mascagni: L'amico Fritz - Opera Holland Park, 2021 (Photo Ali Wright) Mascagni L'amico Fritz; Katie Bird, Matteo Lippi, Paul Carey Jones, dir: Julia Burbach, City of London Sinfonia, cond: Beatrice Venezi; Opera Holland Park Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 24 July 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Mascagni's lyrical comedy in a rare London outing which enables us to enjoy the work's engaging characterMascagni's opera L'amico Fritz was almost as famous and popular as his Cavalleria Rusticana during the composer's lifetime, but since his death in 1945 the opera's hold on the repertoire has waned, its appearances often restricted to famous tenors wanting to sing the 'Cherry Duet', the best-known moment from the opera. Opera Holland Park has kept faith with the piece (possibly the only major London company to have performed the work) and having produced it before (around 10 years ago and 20 years ago), they returned […]
2021-07-18 12:00:28
Opera Holland Park, London Cafe society meets old-fashioned romance in this charming production of Mascagni’s opera, where Matteo Lippi makes a fine match in Katie Bird L’Amico Fritz, Mascagni’s 1891 romcom about a wealthy landowner who scorns the idea of marriage but finds himself slowly falling in love with the daughter of one of his tenant farmers, is back at Opera Holland Park (who have long championed the piece) in a new production by Julia Burbach, conducted – in a fine UK debut – by Beatrice Venezi. It’s an unusual work in many respects, restrained in mood, and dependent not so much on high drama as understated gradations of emotion for its impact. Burbach captures its elusive nature in a staging that combines simplicity with great and genuine charm.
2020-08-24 07:14:36
Is the opera world ready for a Lesbian Cherubino - how opera remains rather tame when it comes to exploring some areas of gender and sexual relations
[…] a different context if the hero simply becomes the heroine. So we might play Orsini as a woman in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia (as happened at the ENO production), but Orsini has little love interest, and it would be far less likely to have female hero in other bel canto trousers roles such as Aurelio in Donizetti's L'Assedio di Calais or Arsace in Rossini's Semiramide. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera - Matteo Lippi (the Duke), Alison Langer (Oscar) - Opera Holland Park 2019 (Photo Ali Wright) I raised the idea gender switching on Facebook and developed a fascinating thread of ideas, but news of only a few real ground-breaking productions. The most radical that I have seen was the Scottish Opera/Opera Holland Park production of Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos with the composer as a woman (and snogging Zerbinetta), and there have been a few others […]
2020-06-07 10:05:56
A Life On-Line: Damnation in London, Midsummer Nights at the Guildhall School, Masked Balls in Holland Park, Candide in Hampshire
[…] Oberon (something which happens only rarely, though the Royal Northern College of Music did this in 2015, and contralto Rebecca Starling wrote about the experience). Opera Holland Park's 2020 season was due to open this week, and in compensation we had their terrific 2019 performance of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. It was lovely to return to Rodula Gaitanou's imaginative production, conducted by Matthew Kofi Waldren with Anne Sophie Duprels as Amelia, Matteo Lippi as Gustavo, George von Bergen as Anckarström, Rosalind Plowright as Madame Arvidson, Alison Langer as Oscar, Benjamin Bevan as Ribbing and John Savournin as Horn, with the City of London Sinfonia. It is always fascinating seeing a video of a production with which you are familiar, and it was great to see so much detail in close-up, particularly Rosalind Plowright's terrific, scary and stylish Madame Arvidson. [see my review of the 2019 performance] […]
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