A Ring around the world
Two exciting things are happening this Sunday, 13th November. In London, Regents Opera open their brand new, pared-down orchestration of Wagner’s Das Rheingold at Freemasons Hall, Covent Garden, the start…
Lean and immediate tragedy: Verdi’s Rigoletto, Regents Opera
An old man, hunched and stooping, clambers onto a stage. With an air of exhausted bitterness, he smears white paint onto his face, dons a jester’s horned cap, picks up…
The night belongs to Susanna: The Marriage of Figaro, Regents Opera
However many times you watch The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s near-mathematical perfection (in music and plot) can always strike you afresh. With Regents Opera, it is the brilliant interior architecture…