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2024-03-06 12:30:00
Hercules, Komische Oper, 3 March 2024
Hercules – Brandon Cedel Dejanira – Paula Murrihy Iole – Penny Sofroniadou Hyllus – Caspar Singh Lichas – Susan Zarrabi Priest of Jupiter – Noam Heinz Choral soloists – Martin Fehr, Taiki MiyashitaDirector – Barrie KoskyDesigns – Katrin Lea TagDramaturgy – Zsolt Horpácsy, Johanna WallLighting – Joachim KleinAssistant director – Tobias RibitzkiChoral Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: David Cavelius) Orchestra of the Komische OperDavid Bates (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDejanira (Paula Murrihy), Lichas (Susan Zarrabi) Handel’s ‘musical drama’ – an interesting term, though we can sometimes make too much of such things – Hercules has never proved especially popular. The composer’s public at the time and for a long while after tended to prefer his Biblical oratorios. Since the revival and, latterly, the craze for his Italian opere serie, they have ruled the roost. Semele, another ‘musical drama’, ‘after the manner of an oratorio’, has fared better since its modern stage revival […]
2023-09-04 09:39:00
Prom 64: An evening of compelling drama and wonderful music making, Dinis Sousa conducts Berlioz' Les Troyens at the BBC Proms
Berlioz: Les Troyens, Act 2 - Alice Coote, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Dinis Sousa - BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/Andy Paradise)Berlioz: Les Troyens; Alice Coote, Michael Spyres, Paula Murrihy, Lionel Lhote, Adèle Charvet, Alex Rosen, Ashley Riches, Beth Taylor, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Dinis Sousa; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert HallFrom Alice Coote's mesmerising entry as Cassandre to Paula Murrihy's moving final notes as Didon, this was an evening of compelling drama and wonderful music making, all brilliantly presided over by Dinis SousaThis was a much anticipated performance that threatened to be overwhelmed by the non-musical events surrounding it. But in the event, Berlioz proved once again that he is impossible to upstage, and from the opening notes of the opera, it was clear that this was to be a thrilling and mesmerising event. There were, in fact, two major changes to the performers; on Sunday 3 September […]
2022-12-17 18:58:00
Gloriana, English National Opera, 8 December 2022
ColiseumQueen Elizabeth I – Christine Rice Robert Devereuz, Earl of Essex – Robert Murray Frances, Countess of Essex – Paula Murrihy Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy – Duncan RockPenelope, Lady Rich – Eleanor Dennis Sir Robert Cecil – Charles Rice Sir Walter Raleigh – David Soar Henry Cuffe – Alex Otterburn A Lady-in-Waiting – Alexandra Oomens The Recorder of Norwich, A Ballad Singer – Willard White A Housewife – Claire Barnett-Jones The Spirit of the Masque – Innocent MasukuRuth Knight (director)Sarah Bowern (costumes)Corinne Young (wigs, hair, make-up)Ian Jackson-French (lighting)Barbora Šenoltová (video)English National Opera Chorus (chorus director: Mark Biggins)Orchestra of the English National OperaMartyn Brabbins (conductor)Images (c) Nirah SanghaniFrances, Countess of Essex (Paula Murrihy), Queen Elizabeth I (Christine Rice)Britten’s Gloriana is a strange work, both in itself and considered as a ‘coronation opera’. It is no Clemenza di Tito, idealising, instructing, and even gently warning a king, at least in Mozart’s version, that […]
2022-04-11 13:12:15
Alcina and Arminio to Kurt Cobain and Kaija Saariaho to Werther and Wozzeck, the Royal Opera House's new season
[…] Diego Florez (the very same), and Danielle de Niese, and Jonas Kauffmann returns to the role of Werther in the production where he created the role in Paris (to great acclaim). The revival of Tosca has a lot of interest, Natalya Romaniw sings the role at Covent Garden for the first time (hurrah!) with casts also including Malin Byström (also in the title role), Gwyn Hughes Jones, Freddie De Tommaso and Erwin Schrott. It is great to see Paula Murrihy back, this time as Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni to Luca Micheletti's Don. Lovely to see that Ailish Tynan pops up as First Lady in The Magic Flute and Berta in The Barber of Seville. It is in the smaller roles that some of the most satisfying casting comes. Besides welcome returns for Jette Parker graduates including Dominic Sedgwick, Thomas Atkins, Michael Mofidian, Blaise Malaba, we also look forward to Ross Ramgobin as Schaunard (La Boheme) and Gamekeeper (Rusalka), Rowan […]
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