It comes as no surprise that these young talents plucked from the chorus and nurtured should be so good, but in a one hour programme that skipped around the opera and song repertoire they certainly proved their worth. Angharrad Lyddon’s fine mezzo-soprano… Read more →
Ultz certainly sets a tone of humour with his witty settings for Verdi’s comic opera. The tapestry cloth, the row of shops make for a production that is truly half timbered – and it works to great effect. On a second viewing… Read more →
Richard Strauss was surely playing when he wrote this, a rich man toying with artists, setting high art against low and poking fun at the whimsical world of patronage. In this new Glyndebourne production director Katharina Thoma shifts the whole to Britain… Read more →
Peter Knapp conducted the fifteen member orchestra and the audience with equal delight as he gave a brief and highly expurgated history of opera peppered and spiced with very tall tales of overweight divas and under rehearsed choruses. Knapp is a keen… Read more →
In a packed auditorium Il Divo burst onto a stage crowned in lights to rapturous applause and before we knew it the four talented vocalists let rip, delivering what they described as their greatest hits. But for all their individual talent, and… Read more →
The name Glyndebourne inspires an expectation of quality. The words ‘community opera’ seldom inspire the same confidence, but when you put both together anything is possible. Imago proved the point with even more conviction than one could hope for. Working with amateurs… Read more →
The easiest way to describe this show is to say it’s a G&S version of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, essentially condensing all 14 operas into 90 minutes. Loosely draped over the premise of a touring company on its last legs due to… Read more →
There are plenty of Ellen Kent touches in this richly melodramatic ‘Tosca’. Crowds of children (all future audiences), livestock (a bird of prey will appear in larger theatres), a powerful villain, creepy around women, and a pervading sense of menace! There is… Read more →
An intermedo is a trifle, a frivolous mixture to delight, titillate and impress. These six scenarios to embellish a sumptuous Medici wedding came across in splendour. The gathering of musicians was magnificent: top-class instrumentalists and solo singers astonishing with their fluency and… Read more →
Julian Philips’ chamber-scale opera, with libretto by Edward Kemp, is based on a novella by 19th century Portuguese writer Eca de Queiros. This is a tale of late 19th century Lisbon bourgouisie in which businessman Godofredo discovers his wife Ludovina and his… Read more →
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