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Tag Archives: Fulham Opera

Bad boys go head to head: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Grimeborn

Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera of shocking brutality, with savage emotional aggression rivalling physical violence throughout its fast-paced plot. Fulham Opera’s reduction for Grimeborn brings Donizetti’s dark, doomed characters…

August 10, 2018 in Opera.

Revolution going nowhere: The Prometheus Revolution at Grimeborn

Prometheus stole fire from the gods in order to ensure human progress, and met with a grisly eternal punishment as a reward: Zeus’ eagle devouring his liver daily. Keith Burstein’s…

August 8, 2018 in Musicals, New writing, Opera.

Batman robbing: Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Fulham Opera

Fulham Opera, noted in recent years for their serious and compelling Wagner and Verdi output, are also not shy of comedy (as demonstrated by their very successful Falstaff). Die Fledermaus…

November 10, 2016 in Operetta.

Patriot games: Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra at Fulham Opera

Sung with glorious musicality by a fine cast, there is no better chance to get really close to this extraordinary work than Fulham Opera’s clear, dynamic production. Director Fiona Williams’ 1980s…

March 15, 2016 in 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.

Gasp, cry, laugh: Puccini’s Il Tabarro & Gianni Schicchi, Fulham Opera

First, darkness; next, grief and spiritual transcendence; finally, ribald laughter. For his penultimate work, Puccini designed a trio of short one-act operas, Il Trittico, to take his audience on an…

March 23, 2015 in Opera.

Verdi meets The Queen Vic: an uproarious Falstaff from Fulham Opera

Fulham Opera’s Falstaff opens in a modern day pub: crisps are on the table, children are playing with mobile phones, and Falstaff himself is in tracksuit bottoms. It’s effectively a case…

November 24, 2014 in Fringe, Opera.

A magnificently minimalist Ring from Fulham Opera

Fulham Opera’s production is an act of distillation which rebels against everything we’re usually told about the Ring: and it allows the vibrant power of Wagner’s story, and the sheer beauty…

February 19, 2014 in Opera.

If you go down to the Rhine today: Das Rheingold at Fulham Opera

Stripped back, bare, minimalist: not epithets you’d automatically apply to Wagner, the man who expects you to give over four days of your life to him every time you experience Der…

February 11, 2014 in Fringe, Vorabend zum Bühnenfestspiel.

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