With the trials and tribulations of a multicultural society currently at the forefront of the British media, Gavin Quinnís production placed a light-hearted focus on the bizarreness of a group of foreigners being thrown together in an unfamiliar situation.
Month: March 2007
Rebel Poet Loses His Heart (and Head)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/arts/music/24andr.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
MOZART: Don Giovanni
This 2005 production of the Mozart-Da Ponte masterpiece Don Giovanni makes for a frustrating experience.
Eugene Onegin ó English Touring Opera
London is fortunate to have played host to several productions of Tchaikovskyís best-known opera in the last three years alone, most recently British Youth Operaís heartbreakingly fresh account last September ñ so it was a risky decision on ETOís part to stage yet another.
Opera star wins “underwear throwing” case
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSSYD27518920070321
ROSSINI: Matilde di Shabran
When Matilde di Shabran was premiered in Rome on Feb. 24, 1821, it was billed as a
“melodrama giocoso” (which is the equivalent of an opera semiseria), somewhere between an opera buffa and an opera seria in character.
DONIZETTI: Roberto Devereux
Asked in an interview by Opera News on his opinion on updating, James Levine replied that it often intensified one or another aspect of the story but that in general it was not possible to update without distorting the story and the equilibrium in the whole opera.
TELEMANN: Komm Geist des Herrn ó Late Cantatas
Our modern sense of the eighteenth-century Lutheran cantata derives in large part from the works of J. S. Bach—works that have been foundational in the early music movement, works that have much shaped our understanding of Bach, and works that we now know in an impressive array of different recordings.
DONIZETTI: Linda di Chamounix
I am surely not the only one who doesn’t understand why this sparkling score is not performed
more often.