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Physical comedy detracts from Pinchgut's musically ravishing Orontea
Ravishing music and performances, a crazy G&S plot, but physicality that tends to distract in Constantine Costi's production.
Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is given the Pinchgut treatment, with an abstract staging complementing historically informed music-making under Erin Helyard.
Pinchgut's Poppea: cynical production, glorious music
Pinchgut Opera's L'incoronazione di Poppea is a glorious feast of singing, acting and playing but the production is brutal, taking Monteverdi's vision of corruption in high places to excessive lengths.
Rare revival of the earliest known opera by a female composer
Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina, performed at the Medici court in Florence in 1625, is said to be the first opera composed by a female composer.