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Tag Archives: Fringe Opera

More smoke than fire: Die Walküre, Grimeborn

Grimeborn are following up their fantastic 2019 Das Rheingold (see my previous review) with Die Walküre this year. Moving to the gorgeous Hackney Empire, with the Orpheus Sinfonia comfortably ensconced in the pit, this production…

August 5, 2021 in Bühnenfestspiel, Fringe.

Preview: Opera in the City Festival

The Arts are steadily moving east in London. Nicholas Hytner is launching his new 900-seat theatre at Tower Bridge this autumn: it’s been 80 years since London theatre received such…

June 21, 2017 in Fringe, Opera, Season Preview.

Unexpected Opera’s The Rinse Cycle

“A Ring Cycle set in a launderette? Well, I’ve seen weirder productions…”  Unexpected Opera’s approachable and slick reduction of Wagner’s epic starts on a characteristically unstuffy note, and proceeds to…

February 23, 2016 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

…Paris, Peckham: James Garner’s Seven Velvet Suits, BasicSpace

It’s hard to get more hipster than an immersive opera installation in an abandoned house in Peckham. workshOPERA’s Seven Velvet Suits is part of BasicSpace, a new arts festival offering six…

February 22, 2016 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Tempest-tossed on the storm of life: Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer at Fulham Opera

Wagner declared in his 1851 pamphlet Communication to my Friends that “the Flying Dutchman… gives emotionally compelling expression to… the longing for peace from the storms of life.” And Daisy Evans takes this…

November 24, 2015 in Fringe, Opera.

From TV dinners to highway robbery: People Watch, Sacred Mountain and Life Stories at Tête-à-Tête

Composer Tim Benjamin gives us a masterclass in how to create a one-handed opera twice over in his Life Stories. Rest in Peace, inspired by a short story from Chekhov (Life…

July 22, 2015 in New writing, Opera.

A gloriously inventive night at Tête à Tête: Psyche, On the Axis Of This World and Encounters In The Republic Of Heaven

Psyche – Alex Groves Psyche asks us to get up close and personal with opera (alone, barefoot and blindfolded) for ten minutes, and the results are, to me, spine-tingling. On…

August 14, 2014 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

The Shetland Isles are “Full of Noises”: Njogel at Tête à Tête

Njogel opens with spectacular beauty, with a small wooden ship bobbing up and down along a ship’s boom, its furled sail representing the waves of the sea around the Shetland…

August 11, 2014 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

Yes and Noh: Spirit Harbour by Opera Kitsune at Tête à Tête

A stylised and intense form of high drama, Japanese Noh is undoubtedly as well suited to operatic treatment as Greek tragedy. Powerful emotions, violent actions and brutal social strictures abound…

August 5, 2014 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

That Woman: Edward and Mrs Simpson at Tête à Tête

None of our Royals’ chaotic personal arrangements have been so constitutionally cataclysmic as Edward VIII’s passion for Wallis Simpson. Britain’s flag-waving fervour during the Royal Wedding, the Jubilee and the…

July 31, 2014 in Fringe, New writing, Theatre.

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