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Tag Archives: OperaUpClose

Bizet’s Carmen, OperaUpClose, Soho Theatre

There is no definitive edition of Bizet’s Carmen. In January and March 1875, two different editions of the score were published, neither of which match the conducting score for its premiere…

August 17, 2015 in Fringe, Opera.

Sob-along-a-Verdi: OperaUpClose’s La Traviata

La Traviata has always been up close and personal. Its 1853 première was actually a critical failure, due to a revolutionary decision by Piave, Verdi’s librettist, to give the opera…

November 10, 2013 in Fringe, Opera.

Strawberry fields forever: OperaUpClose’s Two Caravans at the King’s Head Theatre

Based on Marina Lewycka‘s 2007 novel of the same name, Two Caravans takes us into the rough, sad but somehow amusing world of Ukrainian strawberry-pickers in Kent, and reflects back some uncomfortable…

September 30, 2013 in Fringe, Opera.

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