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…
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…
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…