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Tag Archives: Royal Opera House

Sophisticated Christmas sparkle: The Firework-Maker’s Daughter at the Royal Opera House

Directed by John Fulljames, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter is a gently exotic and quietly magical act of storytelling, with a strong female hero, a vibrant score with strong, tuneful melodies from David…

December 11, 2015 in Children's, Opera.

Cabin pressure rising: Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse at the Linbury

Half urban myth, half folklore, the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse-keepers from the Flannan Isles one night in 1900 has never been satisfactorily explained. Theories abound; questions linger. As a…

October 24, 2015 in Opera.

A bewildering bed of roses: King Size at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

King Size is an ultra-modern take on the German tradition of Liederabend, or the “evening of song”, mixing Schumann, Wagner and Schubert with the Jackson 5 and Stephen Sondheim. This…

April 15, 2015 in Lieder.

Give us this day our daily Brecht: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

From its stunningly filmic opening to its faux-Golgotha finale, the Royal Opera House’s new production of Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny demands our attention. We all know that…

March 11, 2015 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.

Just Look Back in Anger: Tippett’s King Priam

English Touring Opera take Tippett’s powerful pacifist retelling of Homer’s Iliad on tour in a strong, beautifully designed production, directed by James Conway, which will leave hearts and minds in turmoil. In…

February 17, 2014 in Opera.

No light without darkness: Inside Wagner’s Head with Simon Callow

Simon Callow’s new show, part of the Deloitte Ignite Verdi/Wagner festival, curated by Stephen Fry, makes the strong and valid point that the reason some people hate Wagner so much…

September 3, 2013 in Lecture, Opera.

Lost and Found: unravelling meaning in Harrison Birtwistle’s Minotaur

A new opera creates a certain stir. And there’s a selfconscious ‘we’re here to be brutalised’ atmosphere among the audience: we think we’re tough enough for this, to watch Birtwistle…

April 19, 2008 in Opera.

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