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Finders keepers: Belongings at Tête à Tête

We gather in a RADA basement to find two double rows of chairs facing one another across a long, thin central space; the layout faintly recalls a train carriage, the…

August 20, 2017 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Love by design: ‘i’ – The Opera, The Waste Paper Opera Company

Not many operas credit their Neural Network Programming: but ‘i’ – The Opera, though recognisably and confidently an opera, thanks Janelle Shane and Dr Amita Kapoor of the University of…

August 20, 2017 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Power hour: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, The Hermes Experiment at Tête à Tête

The Winter’s Tale is surely one of Shakespeare’s cruellest tragedies: Leontes’ mistaken, yet unshakeable jealousy destroys family bonds and friendships alike, culminating in blasphemy as he refuses to accept the…

August 18, 2017 in Fringe, Theatre.

Divine passion: Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah, Grimeborn

Aylin Bozok’s productions of French opera for Grimeborn have all been marked by their elegance, restraint and psychological intensity. Bozok exchanges the orchestra for a piano accompaniment (played here with…

August 18, 2017 in Fringe, Opera.

Packing all the punches: Edward Lambert’s The Art of Venus, Tête à Tête

“I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful…

August 16, 2017 in Baroque, Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Songs for a mad emperor: Sarah Toth’s Nero Monologues

Sarah Toth’s Nero Monologues is a pastiche opera, or pasticcio: this is a recognised form of opera making, used by Handel among others, where rather than writing an entirely fresh…

August 10, 2017 in Fringe, Opera.

Unexpected Mozart in the bagging area: Così fan tutte, Merton Street Opera

Baseless Fabric Theatre have taken Mozart’s Così fan tutte to the streets this summer, in the most literal sense. Their exceptional cast of five fantastic singers, and three brave instrumentalists,…

August 8, 2017 in Fringe, Opera.

Lust, silk and strangulation: Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy

Oscar Wilde never finished his play A Florentine Tragedy, an unsettling little story of the attempted seduction of a merchant’s wife by the local prince, and that prince’s death at the…

August 8, 2017 in Fringe, Opera.

Duel of duos: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mozart and Salieri, Mascagni’s Zanetto

Mozart wears jeans under his brocade jacket and white wig, and is sometimes found playing with his mobile; Salieri’s ruffled shirt is under a dark modern suit, its folds not…

August 7, 2017 in Fringe, Opera.

Nuttin’ much: tattered shreds of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at Grimeborn

My suspicions should have been aroused by the fact that there was no programme for Porgy and Bess. The website had listed just two singers: Talia Cohen and Masimba Ushe. ‘Surely,’…

August 5, 2017 in Fringe, Opera.

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