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Monthly Archives: October 2013

Ding, dong, the Sphinx is dead: Mark Antony Turnage’s Greek at ROH Linbury

Sophocles in the 1980s: Mark Antony Turnage shapes Berkoff’s contemporary East End vision of Oedipus under Thatcherism – via Tufnell Park, football crowds and a very sinister café – into…

October 21, 2013 in Opera.

Baring all: joyous abandon from Opera Naked

Opera Naked is cool, confessional cabaret from a singer’s point of view.  Absolute devotion and dedication to opera – in the face of financial disaster, parental disapproval, physical problems and…

October 18, 2013 in Cabaret, Opera.

Mummy always knows best: Handel’s Agrippina, by English Touring Opera

This joyous production by English Touring Opera makes the most of the music, the characters, and the alternately hilarious and unsettling plot of Handel’s early masterpiece. Agrippina is an opera of…

October 8, 2013 in Baroque, Opera.

The Inaugural Clapham Opera Festival

On Friday 4th October, the inaugural Clapham Opera Festival opened with dazzling youthful vigour at the Church of the Holy Spirit on Narbonne Avenue.  A carefully selected programme of Bel…

October 5, 2013 in Fringe, Opera.

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