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Tag Archives: Rossini

Blitz spirit: Rossini’s Comte Ory, Grimeborn

Rossini’s Le Comte Ory is a flirtatious farce in which a naughty young Count drives everyone demented with his relentless erotic enthusiasms: and it glitters, musically and dramatically, with madcap Rossinian flair…

August 15, 2019 in Buffa, Opera.

Season preview for Culture Whisper: Glyndebourne 2016

Melly Still’s magical production of Janáček‘s The Cunning Little Vixen (revival, 2012) is back, the only opera I know to have been born from a comic strip. Still’s vision balances a…

February 26, 2016 in Season Preview.

Season preview for Culture Whisper: Garsington 2016

Summer garden opera simply doesn’t get more glamourous than Garsington. The stunning lakeside setting at Wormsley, the Getty family’s oil-painting-perfect English retreat, sets off any picnic to perfection; there’s even…

February 23, 2016 in Season Preview.

“Just My Usual, Please, Figaro!” The Barber of Seville at Longborough

Sharply styled in modern colours over a traditional 18th century setting, with some truly inspired lighting by Wayne Dowdeswell, Longborough ’s Barber of Seville does not seek to break the…

July 11, 2014 in Opera.

Razzling, dazzling good fun: La gazzetta at the Royal College of Music

In this exuberant production at the Royal College of Music, directed by Donald Maxwell and Linda Ormiston and updated to Berlusconi’s Bunga Bunga Italy of the 1990s, Rossini’s comic opera…

June 26, 2014 in Buffa, Opera.

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