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Eavesdropping on their dramas: Opera North's 'in the round' production Britten's Albert Herring
Britten: Albert Herring - Claire Pascoe, Dafydd Jones - Opera North (Photo: Tom Arber) Britten: Albert Herring; Judith Howarth, Heather Shipp, Amy Freston, William Dazeley, Paul Nilon, Richard Mosley-Evans, Dominic Sedgwick, Dafydd Jones, Katie Bray, Claire Pascoe, Rosa Sparks Willow Bell, Oliver Mason, director: Giles Havergal/Elaine Tyler-Hall, conductor: Garry Walker; Opera North at the Howard Assembly RoomA wonderfully involving revival of Giles Havergal's intimate, in the round production of Britten's comedy brings out the work's humanityBritten's Albert Herring was written as a relatively portable chamber opera for the English Opera Group. Famously premiered at Glyndebourne in 1947, when John Christie evidently told people he didn't like it, the work has generally been performed in medium to large size theatres. When Giles Havergal directed the work for Opera North in 2013, it was performed not in the Grand Theatre, Leeds, but in the smaller Howard Assembly Room.The production returned to the Howard […]
2023-12-29 08:43:00
2023 in Opera and Music Theatre: historically informed Berlioz & Wagner, dramatic Handel, a G&S rarity, RVW, Zandonai in Berlin, new Jonathan Dove
[…] Rodgers & Hammerstein's classicA little bit of theatrical magic: style, imagination and engaging performances in Dorset Opera's rare revival of Massenet's Le roi de LahoreGreater than the sum of its parts: British Youth Opera perform Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress at the Three Choirs FestivalItch rocks: science, adventure and Wagnerian parallels in the world premiere of Jonathan Dove's terrific new opera Itch at Opera Holland ParkVisually seductive and strikingly arresting: The Queen of Spades at The Grange Festival is a real study in obsessionColour, text & character: Dresden Music Festival launches its historically informed Ring cycle with gripping Das RheingoldMozart's late masterpiece: La Clemenza di Tito from Chelsea Opera Group with Helena Dix and Kezia Bienek Ida revealed: John Wilson & the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment take a fresh look at Gilbert & Sullivan's unjustly neglected Princess IdaNo ordinary evening: Christof Loy directs Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at the […]
2023-08-09 14:46:33
[…] explores the neglected operas written by women composers, dating back to the 17th century, and Tom Stewart visits Kyiv, where the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is playing on against the odds. In this month’s BBC Music Magazine Interview, composer Tan Dun tells Claire Jackson how nature in all its forms lies at the very heart of his music, while September’s Musical Destination is The Grange Festival in rural Hampshire, where Jeremy Pound enjoys an evening around Tchaikovsky’s card table. Our Composer of the Month is Haydn. He’s well known and loved for his many symphonies and chamber works: but, George Hall reveals, Haydn wrote many fine operas as well. And, for this month’s Building a Library, Terry Williams takes an aural wander around Brno in the company of the best versions of Janáček’s Sinfonietta. […]
2023-06-13 14:45:00
Così fan tutte, Grange Festival Opera, 10 June 2023
Fiordiligi – Samantha Clarke Dorabella – Kitty Whately Guglielmo – Nicholas Lester Ferrando – Alessandro Fisher Despina – Carolina Lippo Don Alfonso – Christian Senn Martin Lloyd-Evans (director) Dick Bird (designs) Johanna Town (lighting) Grange Festival Chorus (chorus master: Tom Primrose) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits (conductor) Guglielmo (Nicholas Lester), Dorabella (Kitty Whately), Fiordiligi (Samantha Clarke), Ferrando (Alessandro Fisher)Images: Craig Fuller To Hampshire and The Grange for the second of what should for me be three productions of Così fan tutte this summer. I cannot yet comment on Munich (Benedict Andrews/Vladimir Jurowski) but Oslo (Katrine Wiedemann/Tobias Ringborg) makes for an interesting comparison. Both had good casts, though if pushed, I should say The Grange had the edge. Though there were a good few things to admire in conductor and orchestra in Oslo, here the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and an inspired Kirill Karabits unquestionably offered the superior experience. It was, […]