Barbara Hannigan remet dans le droit chemin The Rake's Progress

By Apolline Gouzi, 22 May 2019

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“Les entrées, les nuances et les tempos sont réglés avec la minutie d'une mécanique”

Reviewed at Philharmonie de Paris: Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Paris on 20 May 2019

Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress (Concert performance)

Barbara Hannigan, Conductor

Sofie Asplund, Anne Trulove

Marta Świderska, Baba the Turk

Gyula Rab, Tom Rakewell

Douglas Williams, Nick Shadow

James Way, Sellem

Erik Rosenius, Trulove, Mother Goose

Cappella Amsterdam

Ludwig

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Tavener's Krishna fails to convince in world premiere

Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

****1

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Apolline Gouzi

Étudiante en musicologie au CNSMD de Paris et à l’École Normale Supérieure, Apolline Gouzi pratique le violon et le chant. Passionnée de musique anglaise, elle consacre ses recherches à la musique de Benjamin Britten. Elle travaille également sur les festivals de musique en France au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale.

À la Philharmonie, Barbara Hannigan remet dans le droit chemin The Rake's Progress