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2021-11-29 11:14:25
Anthony Bolton's The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko
Anthony Bolton's The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko debuted at Grange Park Opera in July 2021. Delayed by a year, thanks to the pandemic, the new piece is an operatic treatment of the real-life story of the killing of the Russian exile living in London. With a libretto by Kit Hesketh Harvey, the opera is a musical treatment of a highly dramatic re-life episode, and a welcome mark of confidence from Grange Park Opera in the idea of new, large-scale opera. The production, directed by Stephen Medcalf and conducted by Stephen Barlow, featured Adrian Dwyer, Rebecca Bottone, Stephan Loges, and James Laing. For those that missed the live performances, a film of the production is now available on the Grange Park Opera website.
2021-07-24 11:30:21
Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, SurreyFormer banker Anthony Bolton duly invests and borrows for his cleverly staged opera based on Marina Litvinenko’s account of her husband’s murder We’d been warned. Yet still the “Chechen rebels” who took to the stage and pointed automatic rifles at us made the heart lurch. This recreation of the 2002 siege in a Moscow theatre was one of many fact-based episodes in Anthony Bolton’s The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko, which had its world premiere at Grange Park Opera last week. This examination of events surrounding the Russian defector’s poisoning in a London hotel in 2006 is thoughtful as documentary, flawed as opera. Unsurprisingly, the Russian media has taken an interest in a piece that has a chorus of health workers chanting “Polonium!”, and a KGB boss, eerily sung by a countertenor (James Laing), who could just be the current Russian president. The subject […]
2021-07-19 13:34:25
‘The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko’ debuts at Grange Park, ‘L’amico Fritz’ revived at Holland Park
2021-07-15 01:47:22
"The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko" was created and composed by former UK investment fund manager and composer Anthony Bolton, and features a libretto by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. It will premiere on July 15 and 17, 2021 to two sold out audiences at Grange Park Opera house which was modelled after Milan’s La Scala. After […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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