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Tag Archives: Puccini

Kimonos and karma: Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at Iford

Madame Butterfly enjoys extraordinary popularity today: even people who have never been to an opera in their lives could probably recognise its title. But why? Despite its surface familiarity, it’s…

July 27, 2018 in Opera.

Thursday night is school night at Tête à Tête: Sonata for YouTube, Turandot Reimagined

Tête-à-Tête is branching out ever further into new venues. Having been to a dance theatre and a nightclub, we now found ourselves in a school theatre. Fittingly, the evening’s programme…

August 2, 2015 in Fringe, Opera.

The curate’s night out: the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight at Egg, London

Although the first piece (One Day This Will be Long Ago) was difficult and the second (China Doll) plain agony to sit through, the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight at Egg, London finished with…

July 24, 2015 in Fringe, Opera.

The Boys from Bohème: An Unexpected Opera Chat Show

I have to start this review with a confession: the more you go to Unexpected Opera shows, the harder it gets to remain objective about them. As I’ve now seen…

July 13, 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.

Simple and emotive: English Touring Opera’s La bohème at Hackney Empire

Puccini’s great crowd-pleaser La bohème is more than familiar to audiences all over the world, but this tale of poverty-stricken love and death remains a compelling watch, whether you are…

March 16, 2015 in Opera.

Some enchanted evening: Puccini’s La rondine at Iford

From the opening party at Magda’s house, all fairylights and champagne, to the sultry Paris dive where students are later discovered toasting new-found love in absinthe, La rondine is no “poor…

June 17, 2014 in Opera.

A Tosca which falls flat? Dyka /Alagna at the ROH

Oksana Dyka sang at the 2005 inauguration of President Viktor Yushchenko (or so Wikipedia confidently assures me). Only two months afterwards, she would star in her very first Tosca. Nine years…

May 12, 2014 in Opera.

Back to the grindstone: The Miller’s Wife at Grimeborn

“The windmill goes round and round… It is a simple life”. The Miller‘s Wife opens, and almost closes, with a similar scene: the miller’s wife in the garden of the mill, while…

August 19, 2013 in Fringe, Opera.

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