Neue Kritikenmehr...
A rare outing for Stanford's Travelling Companion
Charles Villiers Stanford's The Travelling Companion is performed at Cadogan Hall by New Sussex Opera.
Clément’s cruel Don Pasquale strikes a sour note
Mariame Clément’s Glyndebourne production of Don Pasquale, revived here for the 2015 Tour, delivers its lesson particularly harshly.
A lacklustre Butterfly at Holland Park
Whatever Puccini’s Madama Butterfly has going for it, it isn’t suspense – everything that’s going to happen is spelled out the first few pages of the score, as Pinkerton chuckles that the marriage contracts in Japan are as flexible as the property leases, renegotiable on a monthly basis, and toasts the day he gets married “for real” to an American bride.
A frivolous Così fan tutte: English Touring Opera at Hackney Empire
Mozart’s Così fan tutte is a comic opera filled with deceit, disguises and betrayal, all carried along by a breathtaking score and witty lyrics. What better way to start ETO’s Spring 2013 season than with a new rendering of this timeless work, in a brilliantly clever English translation by Martin Fitzpatrick.
