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“Kentridge préfère au récit une réflexion sur la nature humaine”
Reviewed at Château de Versailles: Royal Opera House, Versailles on 18 April 2019
Monteverdi, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses to his Country), SV 325
Philippe Pierlot, Conductor
William Kentridge, Director
Romina Basso, Penelope
Jean-François Novelli, Telemaco, Pisandro
Jeffrey Thompson, Ulisse
Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Amor, Minerva
Anna Zander, La Fortuna, Melanto, Anfinomo
Víctor Sordo, Eumete, Giove
Antonio Abete, Antinoo, Neptuno, Tempo
Ricercar Consort
Brighton Philharmonic play their socks off at the Brighton Festival
****1
COC triumphs with Kentridge’s brilliantly conceived Wozzeck
*****
Oh To Believe in Another World: Shostakovich and Stalin on film
***11
A toy-box of tyranny: Shostakovich, Stalin and Kentridge collide
****1
Bleak and hopeless: William Kentridge's Wozzeck at the Met
****1
Barbed wire fences and gas masks: Wozzeck in Sydney
****1
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